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R7500: Sudden drop in 2.4 G download speed, upload is still good
Router serves both: 2.4 G and 5 G WIFI as AccessPoint. Firmware is latest. Without any changes done to the setup 2.4 G network dropped from about 25G download speed to 0.1 while upload speed rema...
I returned the R7500 a few days to my reseller and got a R7800 instead. Could not wait any longer since I got no fix for the problem.
Everything works now as it should.
Correction: network speeds are im Mbps. Sorry for the mistake.
In addition: I reinstalled the latest firmware (same version as before) and afterwards made a factory reset (reset button for about 10 sec pressed).
Test right after this procedure did not show any improvement.
Reinstalled my own settings.
Interestingly enough now the R7500 shows up twice in my connected devices in my router: Once with the MAC address that have always seen so far (and that the router knows) and one more time with a MAC address that is next in ascending order to the original MAC address.
I tried multiple resets at router and R7500AP - no improvements.