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Creatium
Guide
May 30, 2018
Solved

R7000P 5GHz wifi speed going down after a few days

Hi!   I am having issues with my rather newly purchased R7000P router. I have both 2Ghz and 5Ghz wifi enabled. The problem is that at first everything works fine, but after a few days of working ...
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  • Creatium's avatar
    Creatium
    Feb 03, 2019

    So my router just stopped working. Red power light, neither simple or hard reset works. I am returning it and probably going with TP-Link next time. 

     

    Case closed.

Blanca_O's avatar
Blanca_O
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 04, 2018

Hi Creatium, 

 

Was there any changes on your network setup before you noticed the issue? 

Did you try changing channel? 

What device are you using to connect to the 5GHz? 

 

Please find this link helpful to resolve 5GHz network connectivity issue: 

https://kb.netgear.com/25182/

 

Regards,

 

Blanca 
Community Team

 

  • Creatium's avatar
    Creatium
    Guide
    Jun 04, 2018

    Hi! Thanks for a reply.

     

    The provided link does not help - I've seen it before.

     

    Currently using 48 channel, though tried 36. Using my macOS built-in wifi analyzer I see that noone else is using 5GHz in my territory, so that should not be the problem I guess.

     

    I am currently testing speeds everyday. Looks to me that they just drop every single day.

     

    I see speed drops on my Samsung Smart TV  and my iPhone 6 (again, doing same testing). It is hard to say if that problem exsisted since my purchase, but it definately has been for at least 2 months now (I have this router for like 4 months).