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Netgear Nighthawk R7000P eating bandwidth
Hi, I have a Netgear Nighthawk R7000P and it's always been causing issues but today I reset it and reconfigured it from scratch with a new Netgear account and all. All the issues I was facing before...
clint66 wrote:
I have a 50 Mbps connection, and I use the Nighthawk as a router and have the ISPs modems WLAN disabled to reduce interference since that was an issue.
What is that ISP modem? Is it in bridge (modem only) mode? Or is the R7000P in access point mode?
If not you may have two routers on your network.
Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.
This explains some of the other drawbacks.
What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Perhaps that caused the issues you had with the original setup.