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R8000p slow speed lost connections
I purchased the router in September of last year and have not had any complaints. The past two days I have had a bunch of issues though. I have download speeds up to 1200 mbps from my provider and pre...
If you hardwire, directly into your cm1200, what speeds do you get?
plemans wrote:
If you hardwire, directly into your cm1200, what speeds do you get?
This really is the key question.
Get that sorted before moving on to consider anything else.
Hardwired into the modem give me 900MBPS or higher on multiple runs on multiple sites.
Evilbeefstick wrote:
Hardwired into the modem give me 900MBPS or higher on multiple runs on multiple sites.
That's good. You modem is behaving itself.
Now reset the router and add it back, restarting the network as specified.
You could also see if you can update the firmware while the router is offline. You don't need an Internet connection to do that.
How do I manually upgrade firmware to my NETGEAR router? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Followed the reboot sequence new firmware would not take. Tried again with no internet and still no success.
Speeds while wired in seem to be ok around 500 to 600 MBPS, but wifi is where things slow down. I am also haveing issues connecting to wifi. I have run tests on both 5g bands with my pc and cell phones neither are good or where they used to be.