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R8500 Wireless capped at 100
Hi All, I have a 1 gig internet connect with FIOs. My network is setup with a FIOs quantum gateway, a R8500 (Nighthawk X8 AC5300) in AP mode and a EX7000 (AC1900 Nighthawk WiFi Range Extender). T...
Hi All,
I am embarrassed to say it turns out my dedicated ethernet cat 6 cable from PC to router, BTW which is rarely ever touched, went bad! So the 1gig dropped to under 100meg. I replaced it and it works much better. I am getting 290 down & 100 up which still needs some work to get faster but at least I am past this hurdle.Best Regards,
Best Regards,
daniel
Update:
I did a comeplete refresh of both the R8500 and EX7000 with then manually configured them. Behaviour remains the same. It works at the proper speeds for 3-24 hours and then the speed is capped at 100.
So I have an update. I upgraded my FIOs router and used it for the home point of the EX7000 (wireless extender). The speed is still capped at 100Mbps.
Hi All,
I am embarrassed to say it turns out my dedicated ethernet cat 6 cable from PC to router, BTW which is rarely ever touched, went bad! So the 1gig dropped to under 100meg. I replaced it and it works much better. I am getting 290 down & 100 up which still needs some work to get faster but at least I am past this hurdle.Best Regards,
Best Regards,
daniel