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R7000 Nighthawk speed limitations
Paying for a 400MB service (and am able to verify that what's coming out of the modem)- but am not able to get over 100MB download. Searched internet and found others have same problem - reported...
If that truly is your firmware, you're over 20 versions out of date.
What actual modem is it connected to?
If you're testing wireless, are you testing over 2.4ghz or 5gh? If its 2.4ghz, 100mbps is amazing. If its over 5ghz, you should be able to hit faster speeds (not 400mbps but faster). So what band are you testing on and what device? A 1x1 antenna device is going to have half the speed of a 2x2 devices.
What wired speeds do you get?
I'd highly recommend updating the firmware over a hardwired connection, doing a factory reset, and then a new install. don't use a backup configuration as there was a lot of changes in the firmware from the version you're on.
that is not my firmware - I'm running the latest per the Netgear website - but if you watch the video I posted - that network engineer reports faster speeds by running older firmware (which I'm not able to do, as my router finds them to be incompatible)
I am testing at both 2.4 and 5 GHZ
timwackel wrote:
that network engineer reports faster speeds by running older firmware
To me, that post, from Aug 2020, smells of what is technically known as b*ll*cks.
There may be more reliable advice here:
Search - NETGEAR Communities – R7000 speed
Anyone seriously keen to backtrack to old firmware should try it in stages. Go back a few versions at a time. That is a variant on the advice to jump forward in stages when a new version won't stick on an old device.
