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R8000p X6S performance and download speed drastically reduced when uploading
I have had this Nighthawk X6S R8000p router for a while now and never really had too much problem with it until now.
I have AT&T Uverse (internet/phone only not fiber) and get 40-50Mbs download a...
AT&T replaced the gateway and the problem has been resolved. However, the gateway currently has an older version of the firmware and hasn't updated to the version that was on my old box. So no telling if once the network finally gets around to pushing the latest firmware update if this problem will return.
But this issue was related to the AT&T gateway and not the netgear router.
I did some further testing and this issue may be more likely related to the Uverse gateway than the Netgear Router.
With a file uploading on another desktop connected through a wire to the Netgear router, I connected a notebook to the Uverse gateway via a wired connection. Performance was still poor connected directly to the gateway. Interestingly enough, the gateway's own built in speed test utility still showed normal speeds albeit and browser speedtests having extremely poor performance or errors.
It seems that AT&T may have recently pushed a firmware update and that might be causing this issue.
AT&T replaced the gateway and the problem has been resolved. However, the gateway currently has an older version of the firmware and hasn't updated to the version that was on my old box. So no telling if once the network finally gets around to pushing the latest firmware update if this problem will return.
But this issue was related to the AT&T gateway and not the netgear router.