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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 ...
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.
Ok, so I found which device causes my 5Ghz Wifi speed drop down.
I was running my wifi for the past several weeks without any problems, no speed drops. But for this period of testing I disabled (completely unplugged) my Powerline adapter. You see, I live in an apartment which is elongated and my router is place on one end of it. The only way I can get my wifi extended is to use Powerline adapter (which is TP-Link TL-WPA4530). This is a two piece device, one part gets a wired LAN connection, another piece creates wifi.
The moment I plugged that powerline adapter, my 5Ghz speed dropped to 15-20 Mbps. I tried reseting that device to factory defaults, Wifi names are unique for it, Wifi cloning is turned off. And it is running the latest firmware.
Not sure what to do now. Will probably try to plug it in directly to my router with LAN cable (now it is running through my Netgear unmanaged switch) and see if that helps.
Any other recommendations?
Nope. Pluging Powerline adapter directly to router did not solve the issue.
I am now out of options.
Maybe try a cheap router as a wireless bridge to "mesh" your main router to the other end of the apartment vs. the powerline adapter? Or, buy one of the Nighthawk wifi extenders, which does the same thing as what I suggested above.
The problem is that my ethernet cable goes to only one side of apartment. Extender is what I had before, but it had way too much of a signal loss.
I would still like to solve this my issue without buying new hardware. Need to mention that before that I use Apple Airport Express and had no issues.
I also have just noticed that my router sometimes does not list Powerline adapter on "Attached Devices" list. Can this be a correlation to the problem I am having?