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R8000 Slow Wifi Speed - Firmware 1.0.4.66_10.1.75
Wifi speeds have dropped for all devices in my home. I'm not sure if the recent firmware update is the cause of this because we were seeing some slower speeds before. Current firmware version is1.0...
have not noticed any speed issues with that new firmware. I have the same router/firmware and have not any speed issues but my readyshare drive did stop working after that update. I have tested it with two different drives/cables with reboots on the devices with no change.
I don't test using that app but there are a lot of things that can interfere with a speed test. Don't get to hung up over that if things are working well.
The firmware isn't really my concern, the speed of the wifi is. I've read a lot of posts and typically the first question is what firmware is being used then it's followed by do a restart and revert to an older version of the firmware, and then reinstall firmware updates.
Anyway, all I care about is why is the wifi slowing down. The firmware happened to just be updated in the middle of all this. I understand I shouldn't get hung up on the speed test, including within the app, but the app has been pretty accurate and the decrease we are seeing correlates with what the app is showing. Ignoring this doesn't seem logical to me. Perhaps that is a different problem, but my problem still exists...slower than normal speeds.
What modem/gateway do you have?
What speeds do you get hardwired to the modem?
What speeds do you get hardwired to the router?
You put that you're testing in the app. The nighthawk app? speedtest app? which app?And you do tend to see speeds start low and increase. I have gigabit and it starts out around 40mbps.
