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Nighthawk R8500 Slow Speeds
Recently upgrade Fifos package from 300 to 500 and then from 500 to gig. R8500 slows down connection speeds up to if not more, by half of total ISP network bandwidth. I have the latest firmware on t...
What modem/gateway are you using?
Since you updated firmware, have you ever factory reset and did a clean install (not from backup)?
I'd try that first. Just install with basic settings and test the speeds.
Make sure to leave qos, access control, traffic monitoring, and parental controls all disabled.
Hey. Thanks for reply. I'm pretty sure I did, but will try again.
I give up this is ridiclious.. Full factory reset, QOS=Off, Access Control=OFF, nothing specific other than the password has been changed after factory reset and still 55%-60% downgrade on all speeds. Great piece of firmware Netgear. great... F. this pice of sh** router..
The fact that the Up is far greater than the down is proof in the pudding. Should never be with zero devices connected outside the computer it's being tested on.
You've given up rather easily after only trying a reset/reinstall. If you want to be done, thats fine, I'll quite helping but you've barely started on what steps you can do to troubleshoot. But if you've lost confidence and want to call it. OK by me.
If not, a few more details.
What device are you testing on?
have you tried different servers on the speedtest site? not all will saturate gigabit.
What modem/gateway are you connecting to?
Not giving up so to speak. Been working on this for over a week now. Yesterday was first time I posted anything about it. There is something def with the R8500 that slows down your speeds, regardless of factory settings or not. I've seen this posted all over the net just hadn't happened to me until recently. There is no resolve but to take a hammer to a $600 router(at least it was when I purchased it years ago).
