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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 ab...
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.
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.
Thanks I will do that! I do recall setting priorities for all my connected devices earlier and having my wired computer connection set to "highest" but I will double check and do the other tasks you recommened. I will report back if the problem is fixed once I do these steps! Thanks!
This thread could be of interest, https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/Unable-to-change-Device-Priority-on-X6-R8000/m-p/1582974#M94662. Although it is for an R7000, from the discussion there appears to be some problems with Dynamic QoS, and Genie on both routers appears to be the same (I have both of them) and they could share code?
If that is the case, disabling it might be the best possible choice.
In that thread I reported strange things happening between the 2 possible screens for QoS, one on the Basic tab, the other on the Advanced tab. I'm not even sure which screen it better to use... and if there is a problem between the 2 screens it could be why you are having a problem possibly?