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R9000 Substantially slow Wi-fi, also slowing my internet
Hi all,
I've been experiencing extremely slow internet the past few days. I tried a variety of SpeedTests and when I was able to connect to the test server, I was getting around 2Mbps when I'm ...
PROBLEM SOLVED.
A OneDrive backup was taking up all of our bandwidth. Apparently this is a big problem with persistent cloud backup programs like that and Drive, although I've never had issues with Drive or Dropbox.
I just downloaded and downgraded to 1.0.3.6 and reset to factory settings. I was getting my full 40Mbps speed over wireless across multiple devices for a full 10 minutes before it reverted to speeds even slower (<1Mbps). I'm downgrading even further to see if it works longer.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
A OneDrive backup was taking up all of our bandwidth. Apparently this is a big problem with persistent cloud backup programs like that and Drive, although I've never had issues with Drive or Dropbox.