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Netgear WNDR3400v3 keeps dropping connection
I have a Netgear WNDR3400v3 wireless router. I've had it for a few years. Lately, it's been dropping Wifi. The network just disappears randomly, sometimes repeatedly. Most of the lights on the router...
I bought it new at Meijer in 2018. Says it can handle "Up to 300mbps" Cost me $85
Speed tests give me about 100mbps down on Wireless (On the 5ghz)
Haven't tried hard wiring anything to it for awhile, but it's slightly faster when I plug a computer into it using an eithernet cable, however it is slower than the actual connection, and therefore I hard wire the computers directly to the modem for the fastest possible connection on those. This unit is strictly used for wireless.
When it's not acting as I described, it seems to perform just fine. The full model is Netgear N600 WNDR3400v3
jeremy1069fm wrote:
Speed tests give me about 100mbps down on Wireless (On the 5ghz)
Wifi speeds depend on the wifi clients as much as the router.
Haven't tried hard wiring anything to it for awhile, but it's slightly faster when I plug a computer into it using an eithernet cable, however it is slower than the actual connection, and therefore I hard wire the computers directly to the modem for the fastest possible connection on those.
As plemans says the WNDR3400v3 is an aged (2014 for your version) router. According to Netgear's manual for this device, not always the most reliable source of information, the LAN and WAN support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer Internet services and most modern network hardware. It slows down whatever is going on in your local network.
Newer devices support 1000BASE-TX. Your modem probably has a gigabit LAN feeding this old router, but the traffic won't get that speed. The connection between this aged box and your unnamed modem isn't going to be faster than 100 Mbps.
You may get local wifi connections on your network to go faster than that, but Internet connections through this thing aren't to break that physical limit.