Netgear Nighthawk R8000 - Limited Internet speeds and connection drops

I can confirm that if you traffic meter enabled, it slows the bandwidth speeds on my R8000. Disabling it brings speeds back to spec on a 1Gb ISP service. 

In regards to DNS issues, I did see DNS issues on recent version of FW. I didn't test with IPv6 as my ISP doesn't support IPv6. So I can give feedback on this. However v.62 and v.68 versions of FW for the R8000 don't have or exhibit the DNS issue. 

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Richie-IT wrote:

I have been using the Nighthawk R8000 with no complaints until a few months ago. 

 

The main issues were pages not being displayed. DNS not being found and internet connection drops. 

The Setup - Virgin media (Hub in modem mode) => Nighthawk router (DHCP and all network protocols ran from this) => develo boxes as wireless access points.

 

Example of issue.......Click a link from facebook or most social media. 75% of the time the page shows ok.
25% - Page cannot be displayed (Usually DNS not found sometimes internet not available) Leave the page for a second or 2 and it will auto refresh and display the page. Sometimes the css styling isnt there though and it needs another refresh.

 

Up until recently I had 200mbps broadband and speedtests showed full speeds. I have just upgraded to 500mbps but my nighthawk only shows 250mbps speeds. 

 

I put the virgin hub in router mode, connect my laptop to it with ethernet and I get 561mbps. 

Swap back to the nighthawk and I get 250mbps again with the intermittent issues. 

I have another property (Sons Flat) with the same setup and he is having the same issues. 

So if I run the network through the virgin hub all is fine, Run it through the nighthawk and it has issues. 

 

Can anyone help as I really dont want to purchase more routers when this has been fine for years.

 

Thanks

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