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NtheLegend
Sep 20, 2018Tutor
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 ...
- Sep 21, 2018
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.
DarrenM
Sep 21, 2018Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
You may want to try and factory reset the router you can back up your config if needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/9665/How-do-I-perform-a-factory-reset-on-my-NETGEAR-router
DarrenM
myersw
Sep 21, 2018Master
DarrenM wrote:
You may want to try and factory reset the router you can back up your config if needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/9665/How-do-I-perform-a-factory-reset-on-my-NETGEAR-router
DarrenM
Why would you suggest a restore from backup? That is just putting the problem configuration back on the router. Why not do a new configure after the reset?