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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 . T...
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 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.
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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?
- Mine does the same. After the last firmware the WiFi and the Ethernet is just dogged down. I reset my router and still terrible speeds. I continue on testing my speed throughout the day and it is like a rollercoaster. I connect my Xbox One directly to my modem and I’m at 140 Mbps constantly. I then plug it into my Nighthawk and it goes from 80 to 9 constantly. So what do I do now? Every time I want to play Xbox I direct connect it to my modem. So I have a NightHawk that is collecting dust while I wait for a fix. If it takes a month, I am going to buy a non Netgear router.
UPDATE: I factory reset it, and reconfigured it with my old settings for wifi... got my speeds back.