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danheinz1126
Oct 24, 2021Aspirant
R6400v2 creating bottleneck
just had comcast out and we were trying to troubleshoot my connection. I pay for 1200 down and suddenly I was only getting 200. I had did some troubleshooting factory reset of router and restarting m...
- Oct 25, 2021
After doing quite a bit of reading in this forum of old threads the consensus was to roll back to 1.0.2.52_1.0.39
all the firmwares are found here https://www.netgear.com/support/product/r6400v2.aspx#download
It did help to get much faster speeds for me also tried the fresh tomato firmware but it didnt seem to help me but it did completely wipe all my settings and I was 100% sure nothing was carried over in any way. If you want to try it out it can be found here. https://freshtomato.org/downloads/freshtomato-arm/2020/2020.2/Netgear%20R-series%20initial%20files/
danheinz1126
Oct 25, 2021Aspirant
Ipv6 was disabled I set it to Auto detect and it chose DHCP. Everything under qos is disabled except for WMM tab. All other settings are disabled
plemans
Oct 25, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Did it help?
Did you try a factory reset and new install? (don't use a backup)
Did you try a factory reset and new install? (don't use a backup)
- danheinz1126Oct 25, 2021AspirantI've done 3-4 factory resets. The one I've noticed is that it doesn't need to update the firmware after the resets so I think it's probably the firmware. I may need to roll that back.
- plemansOct 25, 2021Guru - Experienced User
If the reset doesn't work, then I'd certainly try the rollback on firmware.
- cscott1Oct 25, 2021Guide
After doing quite a bit of reading in this forum of old threads the consensus was to roll back to 1.0.2.52_1.0.39
all the firmwares are found here https://www.netgear.com/support/product/r6400v2.aspx#download
It did help to get much faster speeds for me also tried the fresh tomato firmware but it didnt seem to help me but it did completely wipe all my settings and I was 100% sure nothing was carried over in any way. If you want to try it out it can be found here. https://freshtomato.org/downloads/freshtomato-arm/2020/2020.2/Netgear%20R-series%20initial%20files/
- danheinz1126Oct 25, 2021Aspirant
I'm going to try the rollback. Turning on ipv6 did boost my spoeeds back up to 500-700 but not nearly as high as bypassing the router.
It looks like Netgear needs to get this fixed, I'm not going to pay $90 for a support ticket to tell them their firmware is broken.