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aresyeah
Nov 14, 2018Aspirant
Nighthawk X6 R8000: one 5G network suddenly becomes super slow
Hi!
Not sure if you guys have experience with this but thought I should give it a try.
I have two 5G networks enabled and let's call them network A and network B. Sometimes when I am usi...
- Nov 17, 2018
aresyeah, oh, you are on an R8000. On the QoS page might be what you want. On the bottom of that page is a link, "Click here to see Bandwodth Utilization by Device and Application". Not sure I noticed that on the prior F/W, but it is on F/W V1.0.4.28_10.1.54.
You do have to enable QoS though and that might cause Internet Speed reduction.
aresyeah
Nov 17, 2018Aspirant
Unfortunately, the traffic meter doesn't really tell me which device is using a lot of bandwidth, it just tells me how much data I consume by month.
IrvSp
Nov 17, 2018Master
aresyeah, oh, you are on an R8000. On the QoS page might be what you want. On the bottom of that page is a link, "Click here to see Bandwodth Utilization by Device and Application". Not sure I noticed that on the prior F/W, but it is on F/W V1.0.4.28_10.1.54.
You do have to enable QoS though and that might cause Internet Speed reduction.
- aresyeahNov 17, 2018Aspirant
I found it!
I won't have it on in normal situations, just going to turn it on to check network usage.
Thanks for your help!