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R7000 issue with WAN speeds
Disclaimer: both of my R7000s are more than 2yo so they are not under warranty. Preambule: I had Comcast 100/20. Switched to WoW 500/50. I have two R7000. RouterA acts as a router (DHCP/ACL and s...
- This is a known issue. AP mode disables hardware acceleration between the WAN and LAN ports. The workaround is to connect the R7000 to the network via one of its LAN ports. IOW, leave the WAN port disconnected. Note: You will lose the ability to log into the router's setup pages. Move the cable back to the WAN port for maintenance. Alternatively, disable AP mode and disable the DHCP server. Assign a sensible, unused IP address in the subnet. Then connect via the LAN port.
Solved an issue on my RouterA (which was acting as a router). It seems like disabling "AIRTIME FAIRNESS" feature brought the download speeds on this router to full 500. RouterB, however, (the one that is acting as an access point) is still capped at 400mbps even with this feature disabled. I'm continuing investigation.
This is a known issue. AP mode disables hardware acceleration between the WAN and LAN ports. The workaround is to connect the R7000 to the network via one of its LAN ports. IOW, leave the WAN port disconnected. Note: You will lose the ability to log into the router's setup pages. Move the cable back to the WAN port for maintenance. Alternatively, disable AP mode and disable the DHCP server. Assign a sensible, unused IP address in the subnet. Then connect via the LAN port.
TheEther wrote:
This is a known issue. AP mode disables hardware acceleration between the WAN and LAN ports. The workaround is to connect the R7000 to the network via one of its LAN ports. IOW, leave the WAN port disconnected. Note: You will lose the ability to log into the router's setup pages. Move the cable back to the WAN port for maintenance. Alternatively, disable AP mode and disable the DHCP server. Assign a sensible, unused IP address in the subnet. Then connect via the LAN port.Yep. That seems to be the case.. Here's what I found 20 minutes ago online.
With the way netgear routers do their AP mode, you still lose the acceleration. The only way I found to get the benefits of AP mode, and not lose throughput, is to change the router's IP to something else, (e.g., from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10), then disable the DHCP server on the router, and then do a LAN to LAN connection. This allows the WiFi radio to still function normally, as well as the network shares, and you still be able to log into the router, and not lose any performance.
Already tested it. I still can get to router's set up page by using the IP address I've assigned to it (not routerlogin.com) though.
Thanks for your input. Also, have to add, that upon further testing Access Control feature is what's affecting throughoutput severely as well when the router is in regular mode.So is this something that firmware can fix? If so would using dd-wrt be another option?
- DD-WRT doesn't support hardware acceleration, period.
Other firmware, such as Tomato and Asuswrt-Merlin, do support hardware acceleration but, AFAIK, they suffer the same problem. It's simple enough to disable the DHCP server and use a LAN port. The only downside is that you lose a LAN port. Nothing that an inexpensive Gigabit switch can't make up for.
