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R7000P very slow to serve internet, timeouts with just one real user -- solved?
I've got a Nighthawk in a pretty unusual configuration -- there's older Netgear wifi router and a mesh network station within a foot of the Nighthawk, and I'm using ReadyShare. I've been able to sta...
Ho boy, are you going to love this...
Discovered that there is some sort of weird interaction between iTunes and Firefox, when running at the same time doing almost nothing. Some sequence of packets on certain web pages evidently confounds the router and makes it lose track of reality. I have no specific evidence, but suspect this is the result of tracking code and scripts buried in places like Youtube, Facebook, and elsewhere.
Running iTunes 12.12.7.1 and Firefox 110 64 bit on Windows 10 pro. Symptoms are basically the same with WMM, Bearmforming, airtime fairness, or MU-MIMO enabled or disabled
If I have iTunes and Firefox doing nothing-burger activities (playing songs hosted on Netgear's Readyshare disk, sitting on Google's home page), everything runs fine for hours. But the moment I start using the browser for anything more interesting, I'll have maybe 10 minutes before the network dies. Once it's sickly, if I kill the browser, the router comes back to life all by itself after a minute or so. 100% repeatable, even with all of Facebook's plugins disabled.
If I do the same browsing routine with the Edge browser, I can go for hours with no problem.
So I'm pointing the finger at Firefox.
Successfully updated firmware to V1.3.3.154_10.1.86
Ran fine for a few hours, but then had an incident with the same symptoms:
- plenty of signal strength on both 2.4 and 5 GHz
- downloads/file reads go really slow, many will stop
- ping 192.168.1.1 responses are many hundreds of milliseconds, >50% of them time out entirely (normally, you'd expect these to be single-digit ms)
- The netgear browser-based control panel may log you out
- After maybe 2 minutes, things return to normal
When it's done, the setup>advanced home page statistics button claims that there hasn't been a reboot, but the browser became busy to the point that it wouldn't get around to basic networking.
Considering this model was sold as the high-performance gamer's delight, I'm really surprised how underpowered the processor seems to be (long boot times) and how un-multithreaded the software is (can't handle "normal" workloads and also respond to basic network functions).
Ho boy, are you going to love this...
Discovered that there is some sort of weird interaction between iTunes and Firefox, when running at the same time doing almost nothing. Some sequence of packets on certain web pages evidently confounds the router and makes it lose track of reality. I have no specific evidence, but suspect this is the result of tracking code and scripts buried in places like Youtube, Facebook, and elsewhere.
Running iTunes 12.12.7.1 and Firefox 110 64 bit on Windows 10 pro. Symptoms are basically the same with WMM, Bearmforming, airtime fairness, or MU-MIMO enabled or disabled
If I have iTunes and Firefox doing nothing-burger activities (playing songs hosted on Netgear's Readyshare disk, sitting on Google's home page), everything runs fine for hours. But the moment I start using the browser for anything more interesting, I'll have maybe 10 minutes before the network dies. Once it's sickly, if I kill the browser, the router comes back to life all by itself after a minute or so. 100% repeatable, even with all of Facebook's plugins disabled.
If I do the same browsing routine with the Edge browser, I can go for hours with no problem.
So I'm pointing the finger at Firefox.
Have you tested using Firefox 111.0 ??
Or maybe some of the extensions you have installed/enabled on Firefox?
Yep. Same issue.
Still haven't figured out exactly which websites hit this issue...although Facebook for sure.
dav0dav0 wrote:
Yep. Same issue.
Still haven't figured out exactly which websites hit this issue...although Facebook for sure.Your router is trying to preserve your sanity.
