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WNDR4700 LAN Port speed
I have been using WNDR4700 Centria since about 2012. Due to the work from home situation a lot of connections are being used and I am trying to optimize my home network. I need help with below: w...
1. speed expectations? Several things can impact speeds. Try factory resetting. during the install process make sure to leave qos, traffic monitor, parental controls, and access controls all disabled. some speed testing results under optimal conditions.
2. Lan ports dead. do they light up at all? are the wires bent? did they ever work? its tough to troubleshoot ports off limited info as well as if its a hardware failure, it might not be fixable.
3. what hiltron modem is it?
Thanks plemans for your reply. Here are my further answers to your questions.
1. speed expectations? Several things can impact speeds. Try factory resetting. during the install process make sure to leave qos, traffic monitor, parental controls, and access controls all disabled. some speed testing results under optimal conditions.
[srini] Will try factory resetting over the weekend as there are 4 of us working from home :). However once all these resets are done. How much speed should i expect out of the LAN port? Is it like 100% or 95% or 60% of the speed that goes into WAN port. Like I said the speed output from Modem is between 300-350mbps which is directly going into the WAN port of WNDR4700.
2. Lan ports dead. do they light up at all? are the wires bent? did they ever work? its tough to troubleshoot ports off limited info as well as if its a hardware failure, it might not be fixable.
[srini] no they do not light up. No the wires are not bent, tried with different ethernet cables. Yes they were working earlier. #4 went bad about an year ago and #3 was working till at least about 4 months ago when I checked last. I bought this unit in 2012 and did not have the need to use the LAN ports till now.
3. what hiltron modem is it?
[srini] CDA3-20
Let me know how the factory reset goes.
You might also try reinstalling the firmware prior to the reset. If somethings corrupt in the firmware, you'd need to reinstall the firmware to overwrite it. A reset only clears out old settings.