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dbnumberiv
Apr 10, 2019Aspirant
A6210 connection speed is poor
I have an older Nighthawk (2013) and my desktop is 15 ft from it, and it would not be great to run a cable from room to another. I bought a Netgear A6210 WiFi USB adapter. Online it says that it can ...
dbnumberiv
Apr 10, 2019Aspirant
Router: Nighthawk R7000
Firmware: V1.0.9.18_1.2.27
Testing on 5ghz
plemans
Apr 10, 2019Guru - Experienced User
1. Tried doing a scan and seeing if there's any interference on the wifi bands you're on?
2. Change the wifi channels?
3. Reboot the router
4. Update the firmware on the router? Its 7 versions out of date. Some people have issues witht the newest version but not all. Its worth doing an update (over ethernet) and then resetting the router and starting fresh.
- dbnumberivApr 10, 2019Aspirant
changing the channel had no effect, and I am not getting any notifications to update the firmware from the network interface.
I will do the other two later when i have a moment to do them.
- FURRYe38Apr 10, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Manually download the FW file and use IE11 or FF to send the FW file to the EX.