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Nighthawk R7500 Wired connection slow
I recently upgraded my internet from Charter Spectrum 60Mbps to 100Mbps. I noticed that my internet has bee spotty and dropping connection frequently and had them reprovision my modem. Hook up my cabl...
My best guess now, after some more testing, is that the 128k buffer in the switch in the router is where the issue is at. Going from >100Mbps to 100Mbps, the buffer in the switch is a choke point.
So the fix: (1) get your computer to operate at 1Gbps ethernet, or (2) if you need to operate your computer at 100Mbps ethernet, try putting a switch with a much larger internal buffer (like the GS116) between you and the router and hopefully that eliminates the problem.
Yes QOS is indeed off. I even turned it on, then back off. Traffic monitoring on and off. I have factory reset the router. Rolled back firmware, re updated the firmware. Tried different cables, tried different ports. I am still at a loss.
One thought, unlikely I know, but are there any 100 Mbps LAN ports on any of these devices?
Well for some reason my 1Gbps nic in my computer is registering its full speed in the network control, However on the Netgear interface it is showing as 100Mbps.
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Well for some reason my 1Gbps nic in my computer is registering its full speed in the network control
Where's that? Something in Windows?
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However on the Netgear interface it is showing as 100Mbps.
Again, where's that? I see no speed indicators in the desktop genie or the browser interface.
Sorry for the useless questions, but there are so many different places where these things show their information that it can be hard to keep track.
Then again, I'm not confident that this is the issue here. It was just a wild guess.
I have, though, come across modems that have only 100 Mbps LAN support. Plug a Gbps router into that and bang goes a lot of speed.
Alright I actually borrowed another router from a friend and plugged it in. It is an R7000 so pretty much a model down and here is the results from a speed test.
