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subraarya's avatar
subraarya
Follower
Jul 11, 2015
Solved

R7000 slow download speeds

only realized after 8 months that my R7000 router always has a download speed close to 3-5 mbps when my ISP provided me 75mbps upload/download. I got latest firm ware updated and customer service ...
AC1900
Nighthawk
R7000
Troubleshooting
  • bill1228's avatar
    bill1228
    Jul 16, 2015
    If you have not already, I would reset the router to defaults and without doing any configuration other the connect to the Internet, no wifi etc. Now see what speed you have with a computer connected to Ethernet port. If it is good then add your configuration back in one thing at a time and test again. This should get you to what configuration option that is causing the slowdown.
    --bill
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staniguchi
Initiate
Jul 15, 2015
Hi.. (first time poster)
I have similar issue...

I had Cable company upgrade my line from coax to fiber optic last weekend.

I was getting 900+ Mbps when I wire connect my system to modem.
But using the same cable, connect it to WAN port of Nighthawk, the best I get from the connected clients are ~400 Mbps.

Upload speed was ~50 Mbps. I disabled QoS upload, then I got ~350Mbps for upload speed.

I didn't have anything else connected to router (wired or wireless) for testing.

MTU is set to (default 1500)... and same on clients.
I did ping google.com -f -l 1472 (that's 1500 - 28 header) without any issue.

ping is ~7 ms

I'm using speedtest.net

Is it because NAT setting that's slowing down the the thru put and not avoidable??

Thanks!!
Ski