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Joshmarshall123's avatar
May 02, 2022
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R8000P Slow Speeds Wifi

I recently upgraded from a R7000 router since the 5ghz band kept going offline after having it work perfectly for a few years. I bought the R8000P since it seemed like the range was better for our si...
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    Joshmarshall123
    May 03, 2022
    I did the chat support on my phone and they were able to solve my issue. They had me change the channels for each of the 2.4ghz,5ghz1, and 5ghz2.

    2.4 - channel 11
    5-1 - channel 48
    5-2 - channel 161

    This seemed to completely solve my slow speed issue. Thanks again for the replies.