I am really interested in purchasing this router, but I have a concern that it can't handle a 1 Gbps connection. I recently got 1Gbps fiber and looking to purchase a router to handle that speed of a connection. I have read that it can't achieve speeds over 450 Mbps with ipv4 and NAT. However, this review of the R7000 shows throughput graphs of 900+ Mbps. So I am kind of confused at this point and don't want to spend $200 on a router advertised as gigabit and it not get this speed. Does anyone have this router on a gigabit connection that can confirm the speeds? Thanks!

You may be interested in contacting the guy that posted this message on the ddwrt forum. He is claiming close to Gb speeds on stock. No idea of his setup or if he is using SPI or not.http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=901721#901721

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sutedy
Guide
Dec 02, 2014
FlavioT,

What is firmware version and settings for router?
FlavioT
Novice
Dec 02, 2014
sutedy wrote:

What is firmware version and settings for router?

I'm using the current FW V1.0.3.80_1.1.38, the only relevant change after the factory reset was to set NAT Filtering to Open. I did not enable QoS.
- dantheman61
  Aspirant
  Nov 14, 2015
  i am thinking about getting the r7000 and was wondering what speeds do you get with qos on?
  - JamesGL
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Nov 18, 2015
    Hi dantheman61,
    
    The speed depends on the priority you have set. If its per device or per application. The higher the priority the more bandwidth the device or application receives.
    
    Regards,
    
    JamesGL
    Community Team

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