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R8000P Nighthawk Router Throttles upload speed
I recently bought an R8000P Netgear router, replacing a nearly 10 year old router. I expected to get better performance, but the old router actually performed better. Here are the issues I am curre...
Slyrr wrote:
I rolled it back to factory settings after updating the firmware failed to improve any performance, and after reading several posts wherein Netgear owners said that rolling the firmware BACK solved their issues, owing to faulty programming in the new firmware.
When you rolled back the firmware did you also reset to factory settings?
Rolling back on its own does not do that. It leaves you with the same settings that you had before the firmware changed.
Yes, I rolled back the firmware, and reset to factory defaults, and powered down/powered up all at the same time. After doing that, my desktop computer went to 10.5 mbps upload speed. But after a day or two, it went back down to 3.5. So there's something about this Netgear router which does NOT seem to like my desktop computer being connected to it, and keeps trying to both throttle my upload speed, and prevent me from viewing websites - unless I refresh each site 2-4 times.
michaelkenward wrote:
Slyrr wrote:I rolled it back to factory settings after updating the firmware failed to improve any performance, and after reading several posts wherein Netgear owners said that rolling the firmware BACK solved their issues, owing to faulty programming in the new firmware.
When you rolled back the firmware did you also reset to factory settings?
Rolling back on its own does not do that. It leaves you with the same settings that you had before the firmware changed.