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R6700v2 wireless speeds drop quickly after reboot.
Hello, I'm having issues with my newish Nighthawk router. Honestly I don't think it's been quite right since purchased three months ago. WiFi speeds would drop over the course of a week but now wi...
Hanging the router has definitely helped, but not near the ceiling. Hard to imagine the router's position had so much to do with it but hanging the router only a few feet down from the ceiling resulted in a much poorer signal than four feet from the floor. Also rotating the router 180 degrees (so the antenna face out) resulted in a poor signal.
After installing a ASUS PCIe dual band AC1200 network card in the wireless desktop I am now getting roughly the same speed of that on the Ethernet attached PC. All of the wireless devices get a good signal now & the wireless speeds remain constant throughout the day.
Very happy with this router at this point.
p.s. I did turn off the traffic meter, the logging function too & some of the other tricks suggested here. However I had tried all that before moving the router to different positions. Maybe not the logs?
Hey I’m having the exact same issue, did you ever find a way to fix the issue?
No. I purchased a much more expensive Linksys router. The Netgear is now in access point mode. Wi-Fi extender.
Hmm... the 3x as expensive Linksys router constantly restarted while printing to USB attached HP Officejet. Not acceptable. The Nighthawk has no problems what-so-ever with same printer. I think the Netgear ReadyShare software is much better than the Linksys USB Control Center software.
I placed the Nighthawk in a plant hanger, so it is just a few feet down from the ceiling. Getting it up much higher, perhaps away from interference, appears to have helped.
Hanging the router has definitely helped, but not near the ceiling. Hard to imagine the router's position had so much to do with it but hanging the router only a few feet down from the ceiling resulted in a much poorer signal than four feet from the floor. Also rotating the router 180 degrees (so the antenna face out) resulted in a poor signal.
After installing a ASUS PCIe dual band AC1200 network card in the wireless desktop I am now getting roughly the same speed of that on the Ethernet attached PC. All of the wireless devices get a good signal now & the wireless speeds remain constant throughout the day.
Very happy with this router at this point.
p.s. I did turn off the traffic meter, the logging function too & some of the other tricks suggested here. However I had tried all that before moving the router to different positions. Maybe not the logs?