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R8000 I want to define my Internet Bandwidth
Hello,
how to change the setting Let Speedtest detect my Internet bandwidth into I want to define my Internet Bandwidth?
I select the second option, input the upload and download Mbps speeds ...
Its not the browser, I tried Safari macOS and iOS, IE11 and Chrome on Win10.
I will close this as nowbody knows the solution, other cannot read and are just curious and from Netgear I dont expect nothing.
Retired_Member wrote:
Again, I'm looking for a solution to switch off Speedtest!
Well, that's not what you asked initially, isn't it?
The Ookla Speedtest is only called and run every time you click on it. No need to switch off - just keep your mouse off the button. There is no kind of ongoing background speedtesting.
You can always define your the up- and downlink speed for the QoS calculations. Again - this data is used QoS calculations - it's not as a hard speed/bandwidth limitation to be applied by the router.
What's the point? Is there no "I want to define..." option on your router model?
If it does not stick it might be a bug on your router model, or your router config is corrupted and might require a factory reset.
What firmware are we facing here on your R8000?
"Well, that's not what you asked initially, isn't it?"
Yes, innitially I asked I want to define my Internet Bandwidth, the alternative formulation would be Switch off Speedtest, becouse you can have only one of two mentioned options.
Many other open questions.
Might be potentially a browser issue - not aware the simple Nighthawk router Web UI does bring lots of challenges, worth trying an alternate browser, drop the browser cache, think about Internet security packages probably interfering with the Web traffic which might interfere the UI JavaScript somehow.
I am still not convinced that we have got the the bottom of the "why" question.
The page that seems to fixate Retired_Member is all about settings for QoS.
But another message from Retired_Member says that they have turned off QoS.
That page, the one with the Speedtest link, is redundant if you are not using QoS.
So, back to the first question, forget about the QoS page, what does Retired_Member really want to achieve?
michaelkenward read the OPs original post again
Retired_Member wrote:
I select the second option, input the upload and download Mbps speeds and click on Apply. A save bar is showing progress, when the screen reloads the option Let Speedtest detect my Internet bandwidth is still active.
The way I read this I understand that the manual settings are not applied, the router does fall-back to the speed test.
