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Nighthawk R7000 Slow WiFi speed
After the latest FW update (V1.0.9.34_10.2.36) my wifi starts jumping upp and down . I'v got 2 of R7000 and one is acting as AP.
I uppgraded FW then factory reset still same issue on both R7000 . Try to down grade to previus FW factory reset and yea i know the drill .
Same issue . Getting a bit agry about this issue ..no i don't have QoS aktivated. full speed on the wired connections 250/100 . But wifi ..5 down and 0.30 up .. fastest i could get were 10mb down 1 m from router and 3 mb up .. same issue with both of my R7000 ..
any ideas ?
Hello ezone
I have escalated this issue to our engineers and our support team would like to work with you. I have sent you a PM.
DarrenM
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Hello ezone
I have escalated this issue to our engineers and our support team would like to work with you. I have sent you a PM.
DarrenM
- I am also having issues with speed when connected to my nighthawk
Exact same issue with mine
this router is crap i have to reboot or reset every week
Same issue. Tired of messing around with the settings. Terrible speeds, cannot get better than 20 mbps wireless. V1.0.9.34_10.2.36. Using wifi scanner I've locked router to a quiet channel but have seen in the same scanner the 2.4 GHz network spiking every few seconds. Unusable
I read the "solved" description for the R7000 and 5G radio that turns on and off. I have two R7000's (both early production and later), neither keeps the radion running.
The up/down time varies, but the cycle isn't longer than 3 minutes. I get connected, and then it is down again for a few seconds to minutes.
I can watch the radio come up then down using a WiFi Analyzer app on my tablet or phone.
Is there older firmware that never had this problem? Old and works is better than new and fails.
Thanks, Derick
Experiencing this same exact issue. Also the "Solved" comment isn't a solution.
Also I'd like to note ive tried to downgrade to V1.0.9.6_1.2.19 and my router tells me no..... *AWESOME*
:smileyfrustrated:- Does Netgear even look at these posts? I only get responses from other users with the same issue. I'm starting to think the fix is to throw this POS in the trash.
I am also having the same problem with speeds going up and down since upgrading to firmware V1.0.9.34_10.2.36. I cannot seem to find any reason for it. One minute my 5G band is at 154 Mbps and the next second it is at 20 Mbps. No new devices or anything else other than the upgrade in firmware. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Franchester wrote:
Does Netgear even look at these posts? I only get responses from other users with the same issue. I'm starting to think the fix is to throw this POS in the trash.
Same issue? Not here.
1.0.9.34 FW is working well for me.
I am 100% stable at max speeds across both interfaces. I flashed twice and reset as the first time I enabled something and lost 1/2 of my downstream bandwidth over ethernet. Didn't know what it was, but was determined to figure it out before downgrading. Fortunately, I didn't need to. It was "Traffic Meter"
During testing, I also saw some super slow Wi-Fi speeds. I was changing channels and letting the radios restart several times in succession between tests. I saw some horrible wireless performance (less than a megabit). Using Wi-Fi Analyzer I finally got proper channel selection and things fell right into place. I found that it was better to restart the router after making a channel change. So I would change a channel, let the radios restart, then do a reboot, then test speeds again. I'm provisioned for 280/10 and get 300/12 over eithernet. I get about 285 down on Wi-Fi. Very respectable performance and stable. No issues with 4k streaming either.
Wired
Wireless
I wish changing the channels was helping me as it has helped you. I followed the same procedures as you using WiFi Analyzer. What I am seeing is that the signal strength on ALL the 2.4ghz band channels is now horrible since I updated the firmware and the signal strength often fluctuates way too much. The 5ghz band channels have much better signal strength but still fluctuate quite a bit more than they used to. It seems to me that this is why my internet speeds are now horrible on the 2.4ghz and fluctuate wildly and less wildly on the 5ghz band.
Anyone else seeing the same issues?
Hello ezone
Very sorry about no one contacting you I did escalate your issue back in August I did send your info over to support again for them to get in contact with you.
Thanks
DarrenM
- Well that sorry hasen't help me haven't had a working Wi-Fi since i reported this issue. And it seems that it aint solved yet.
Sad to say stuff like this gives the brand bad and unwanted pr. And your not compensating your customers makes it even look worse.
The lack of help from you forced me to get routers to maintain my Wi-Fi.. Not fun to put 300 dollars to get a working Wi-Fi cause a sofware upgrade makes it un usebel.- I felt the same way and after restarting it, getting new cables, and playing around with the settings, I finally bit the bullet and went out and bought their main competitors router. Let me tell you, the quality is 100 percent better and I have had stable and fast internet ever since. It is sad because I have owned multiple Netgear routers in the last 20 years.
I've shut down 5Ghz and work only on 2.4Ghz and the router seems much more stable.
Even if it's not an acceptable solution it keeps speed at least at a certain level.
I just wonder if anybody else has tried that.
One thing is for sure this post should not be marked as solved!
- I started the thread i my problems are solved.
But if ppl still got issue then by all means not solved.
