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jimmyfor20
May 03, 2017Aspirant
5-3-17 R7000 firmware killed my lanport download speed
Updated my firmware to latest version from netgear. Now my lan ports won't go over 10.5Mbps. WiFi seems unaffected. I'm still getting 110 to 117Mbps. Netgear... You f'ed up. 90% of my bandwidth is go...
- May 05, 2017
ok, I think I've resolved my issue I had xfinity tech come out to check their circuit. The tech sent a signal down to my Motorola SB6141 Modem to reset it. This step had been done over the phone by Xfinity customer service twice a few days ago with NO effect. Then I disconnected all wiring except for power on the R7000. I did a "factory reset" with a paperclip on the back of the R7000. I then connected ethernet devices one by one. My speed came back except on one PC. It was still stuck on 12Mbps up and 12Mbps down. The PC has a Killer E2200 NIC on the motherboard. I downloaded diagnostics from Rivet networks. After running the diags on the PC, it fixed the NIC. My speed is now restored to the pre-update levels of 125Mbps down and 12Mbps up on BOTH wired and wireless ports. I turned on QoS and it killed my bandwidth, so I turned it back off.
My advise to anyone with this issue would be to disconnect all network devices BEFORE updating the router. It seems like when a update of the router is done, the update will cause your other devices to become corrupted. I'm on an older firmware now.... the one that ends with 99.ck or something like that.... That's where I'm staying for a while.....
William10a
May 04, 2017Master
Almost sounds like qos is limiting the wired lan ports but strange you have such fast speeds on the wifi and not the wired lan ports are you sure the nvram cleared its self of the old firmware?
jimmyfor20
May 05, 2017Aspirant
ok, I think I've resolved my issue I had xfinity tech come out to check their circuit. The tech sent a signal down to my Motorola SB6141 Modem to reset it. This step had been done over the phone by Xfinity customer service twice a few days ago with NO effect. Then I disconnected all wiring except for power on the R7000. I did a "factory reset" with a paperclip on the back of the R7000. I then connected ethernet devices one by one. My speed came back except on one PC. It was still stuck on 12Mbps up and 12Mbps down. The PC has a Killer E2200 NIC on the motherboard. I downloaded diagnostics from Rivet networks. After running the diags on the PC, it fixed the NIC. My speed is now restored to the pre-update levels of 125Mbps down and 12Mbps up on BOTH wired and wireless ports. I turned on QoS and it killed my bandwidth, so I turned it back off.
My advise to anyone with this issue would be to disconnect all network devices BEFORE updating the router. It seems like when a update of the router is done, the update will cause your other devices to become corrupted. I'm on an older firmware now.... the one that ends with 99.ck or something like that.... That's where I'm staying for a while.....
- AhnFireMay 05, 2017Guide
I found something similar. I have not tried rebooting the modem itself yet. I am getting strange quick disconnects across all devices every so I often. I did a full reset of my network, powering down my multiple switches and bridges, making sure I did a full factory reset with on my pc wired directly to the router first.
At a good time later today, I will power down my router, power down my cable modem. Then I will bring up that cable modem and then the router again. That should complete it for me. Hopefully everything is stable. I downgraded to 1.0.7.6.
- FURRYe38May 05, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Someone else mentioned in a thread about Killer NICs. They seem to have there own QoS features. I believe disabling WMM on the main host router helped with these particular model NICs. WMM should be left enabled for most other network Adapters.
jimmyfor20 wrote:ok, I think I've resolved my issue I had xfinity tech come out to check their circuit. The tech sent a signal down to my Motorola SB6141 Modem to reset it. This step had been done over the phone by Xfinity customer service twice a few days ago with NO effect. Then I disconnected all wiring except for power on the R7000. I did a "factory reset" with a paperclip on the back of the R7000. I then connected ethernet devices one by one. My speed came back except on one PC. It was still stuck on 12Mbps up and 12Mbps down. The PC has a Killer E2200 NIC on the motherboard. I downloaded diagnostics from Rivet networks. After running the diags on the PC, it fixed the NIC. My speed is now restored to the pre-update levels of 125Mbps down and 12Mbps up on BOTH wired and wireless ports. I turned on QoS and it killed my bandwidth, so I turned it back off.
My advise to anyone with this issue would be to disconnect all network devices BEFORE updating the router. It seems like when a update of the router is done, the update will cause your other devices to become corrupted. I'm on an older firmware now.... the one that ends with 99.ck or something like that.... That's where I'm staying for a while.....