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Netgear Nighthawk r8000 slows wired connection
Hello. I have a Netgear Nighthawk r8000 wireless router that is cutting the speed of a wired connection from 950Mbs to 250Mbs. I recently switched to Ziply Fiber Gig Speed. When they did the sw...
Thanks for the advice. The factory reset worked and now getting 905 down and 820 up. Firmware says it is V1.0.4.68_10.1.75. The ONT is Frontier I-211M-L. Appreciate the help! Thank you so much!!
Make sure qos, traffic monitoring, access control, and parental controls are disabled. Then reboot the router.
Test the speeds after that.
If that doesn't help, sometimes you need to factory reset and clean install (not from a backup).
those 4 services disable ctf which is needed to hit gigabit speeds. And even though disabling them should reenable ctf, I've read of others that actually needed to do a full factory reset to get it re-enabled.
What firmware version are you on?
What ont do you have?