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Nighthawk R7000 Throttling Bandwidth
Hello Communtiy,
I was curious if there was a way to set up my Nighthawk Router to not throttle my wired connection. Currently of the 4 Ethernet ports only one is active but I'm only getting about 11Mbps through any of the four ports with an Ookla Speed Test. After my ISP Tech came over to solve a seperate issue with my cable he said that my router was dividing bandwidth between all the ports and that's why it was such a weak bandwidth in the one active port.
I would really appreciate any help you may have in navigating to a possible setting that can focus all or divide bandwidth between only active ports and not between all ports whether inactive or active.
I'm on a 100Mbps plan and I achieve this level plus some (117Mbps) when speed testing but only through my wireless connection.
I would prefer to do my gaming wired however for better stability. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
It seems quite ironic that such a strong wireless router that is excellent in all other regards steps on its own foot with wired Ethernet coonections by restricting its capabilities.
Warm Regards,
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
See the SCREENCAPTURE JPG on the right (click on it). This is from my R8000 but I recall the R7000 looks the same.
ADVANCED tab on the top, SETUP, QoS SETUP on the left to get to the screen.
IF the enable box IS checked (I suspect it might be) uncheck it and APPLY. Then test speeds.
If it IS NOT checked, check it, RUN the SPEED TEST, and once it completes, do APPLY. Then UNCHECK ENABLE and do APPLY and retest speed.
Speed good, DONE.
If NOT, then enable QoS again and press APPLY. Now the bottom line, click on it to see the devices already connected. Look at the PRIORITY of the devices. If the WIRED device is lower than others, EDIT to raise the PRIORITY, press APPLY and retest. It could be some device is the HIGHEST and that would be getting most of the bandwidth, so you might want to lower it as well.
It might take some juggling to get it right, but unless there is a dire need to have some device take most of the bandwidth QoS is probably not needed.
By the way, the WMM tab should have ALL boxes checked.
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QoS could be the problem. Do you have it enabled? If your ISP speed is 100Mbps or higher you probably don't need it. If you do, edit the device list to give the wired PC higher priority.
IrvSp,
Thanks for getting back to me promptly. I will certainly give this a shot this evening.
Would you mind elaborating on exactly what buttons I am looking to tick on or off in the menu?
This Router Login Menu page is much more complex since my last netgear device over 5 years ago.
I can navigate to the QoS menu, just need a bit of help on what I should eb looking for there ot be optimal.
Thanks in advance.See the SCREENCAPTURE JPG on the right (click on it). This is from my R8000 but I recall the R7000 looks the same.
ADVANCED tab on the top, SETUP, QoS SETUP on the left to get to the screen.
IF the enable box IS checked (I suspect it might be) uncheck it and APPLY. Then test speeds.
If it IS NOT checked, check it, RUN the SPEED TEST, and once it completes, do APPLY. Then UNCHECK ENABLE and do APPLY and retest speed.
Speed good, DONE.
If NOT, then enable QoS again and press APPLY. Now the bottom line, click on it to see the devices already connected. Look at the PRIORITY of the devices. If the WIRED device is lower than others, EDIT to raise the PRIORITY, press APPLY and retest. It could be some device is the HIGHEST and that would be getting most of the bandwidth, so you might want to lower it as well.
It might take some juggling to get it right, but unless there is a dire need to have some device take most of the bandwidth QoS is probably not needed.
By the way, the WMM tab should have ALL boxes checked.