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R7000 suddenly slow wifi
Model : R7000 Firmware now : V1.0.7.10_1.2.3 I've 3 r7000 routers. Until now they all worked fine. But now suddenly i have slower wifi 5Ghz speeds. I've a 100Mbps isp network at home. When i ...
You put that they worked well before. what changed? (other than speed)
The R7000 isn't a mesh router and doesn't support that 802.11r/k that I could find. maybe its changed. Regardless, this tends to leave some devices as "sticky". Meaning they won't always switch to a better access point. You could try shutting down 2 of the AP's to make sure you're connected to the proper one and see what speeds you get. If you're speeds are good, then it might be an issue with stick clients.
An upgrade to either something like orbi with roaming standards built in or even a business class access point with roaming standards built in might help.
Another potential is I've read that OpenWrt has roaming built in. Not sure as I've never used it but something to checking into.
With your home having brick interior walls, its going to leave wifi not working well as I'm sure you've found out. Its good that you have a hardwired backbone between them. worse case scenario is changing the SSID's so they're unique. its a PITA but would prevent sticky clients because you'd have to manually switch.
another potential is maybe the Tchnicolor is causing the issue. Does if have a modem only/passthrough mode? Try putting it in this mode and running one of the R7000's in router mode. Mabye the technicolor is limiting the speed going to the R7000
Nothing else changed . It's only the wifi speed that is so bad wright now.
It always worked like this and this is the way i want it to work.
I don't want to buy any other system as this system proved to work flawlessly. I think it's a software problem . I didn't change anything at all on my network. My previous modem/router was a bbox3 from sagem , yesterday i changed this one with a bbox3 from Technicolor and that didn't solve the problem . I can't change the router setting to passtrue . The router i flashed to the 1.0.9.4 software is on it's default ssid and password so i'm 100% super i'm on the correct router to test. This problem is so frustrating...
It always worked like this and this is the way i want it to work.
I don't want to buy any other system as this system proved to work flawlessly. I think it's a software problem . I didn't change anything at all on my network. My previous modem/router was a bbox3 from sagem , yesterday i changed this one with a bbox3 from Technicolor and that didn't solve the problem . I can't change the router setting to passtrue . The router i flashed to the 1.0.9.4 software is on it's default ssid and password so i'm 100% super i'm on the correct router to test. This problem is so frustrating...
gohigher wrote:
Nothing else changed . It's only the wifi speed that is so bad wright now.
It always worked like this and this is the way i want it to work.
I don't want to buy any other system as this system proved to work flawlessly. I think it's a software problem ---and you're probably right. I didn't change anything at all on my network. My previous modem/router was a bbox3 from sagem , yesterday i changed this one with a bbox3 from Technicolor and that didn't solve the problem . I can't change the router setting to passtrue-----Why not? it doesn't mean you have to leave it in passthrough/modem only but if you want to test things to figure out where the issue is, this is kind of key . The router i flashed to the 1.0.9.4 software is on it's default ssid and password so i'm 100% super i'm on the correct router to test. This problem is so frustrating...Trying to isolate where a problem is coming from when you're running multiple systems makes it challenging. its going to need testing to isolate where the problem is.
Try running just the Technicolor and 1-R7000 in AP mode. Test speeds over wireless 5g on both.
then swap out the R7000 for one of the others. Re-run the test. compare the speeds. I can see the issue being one of the R7000's but if multiple are having issues, its tough to say its the R7000 that's limiting the speed.
Also, how do we know the technicolor isn't running a form of QoS or traffic monitoring that's slowing its speeds?
thats why the passthrough mode is worth setting up and trying.
And I get that your frustrated and that this used to work. Problem is ISP controlled devices get firmware updates from the ISP and you don't control them. maybe your isp updated the device and thats causing the issue. I understand you got a new one but its the same model from the sounds of it.
It'll require testing to isolate exactly where the problem is stemming from.
- Thanks for the info. I'll try to test it all out and keep you posted. Maybe i can take one of the r7000's and connect the to a friends router to test it out.
- Sadly enough it is a problem with my main modem/router. I connected my r7000 router at my neighbors modem and i get around the 295 Mbps. So there's nothing wrong with the r7000. Don't know how to solve this problem now đ