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kaitech
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Aug 20, 2017
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Netgear R8500 WAN Bandwidth Issue

I have an R8500 router running V1.0.2.100_1.0.82 and my ISP provides 500/50Mb. I get 530/50 when my PC is connected directly to the modem, but when going through the router (wired using exact same ca...
  • kaitech's avatar
    Aug 20, 2017

    Solved the issue. Had to disable dynamic QoS... 


    Odd, after enabling dynamic QoS, the built in speedtest function would show half the bandwidth too. That pretty much defeats the purpose, because it always under values the available badnwidth.

     

    I guess I'll be running without QoS in that case. Netgear needs to fix this...