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tflott
Oct 14, 2021Aspirant
Model R8000 drops bandwidth from router
I have Spectrum as an ISP and use their provided modem. My service is 400Mbps, and when I connect directly to the modem, I get those speeds. However, when I connect my R8000 router, my speeds fluct...
plemans
Oct 14, 2021Guru - Experienced User
what actual firmware version are you on?
Are you testing wired?
Make sure that qos, access control, traffic monitoring, and parental controls are disabled and do a reboot.
If that doesn't help, do a factory reset and reinstall and leave all those disabled. they can disable ctf which can cause slow downs.