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ezone's avatar
ezone
Star
Aug 02, 2018
Solved

Nighthawk R7000 Slow WiFi speed

After the latest FW update (V1.0.9.34_10.2.36) my wifi starts jumping upp and down . I'v got 2 of R7000 and one is acting as AP. I uppgraded FW then factory reset still same issue on both R7000 . T...
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  • DarrenM's avatar
    DarrenM
    Aug 02, 2018

    Hello ezone 

     

    I have escalated this issue to our engineers and our support team would like to work with you. I have sent you a PM.

     

    DarrenM

ezone's avatar
ezone
Star
Oct 26, 2018
Dowgrade didn't help me and am still waiting for a solution...
rreszler's avatar
rreszler
Aspirant
Oct 29, 2018

Same here, it only helped a little by turning off the smart wifi, it was really terrible on that and I had been using that feature for many months and it worked great.  It seems to me like they lowered the power on the radio chips and downgrading doesnt affect this.  It shows its at 100% transmission but that's only believe the software settings.  I can tell the radios are turned down quite a bit, I even went a bought one of the new repeaters and its not helping of course.

  • ezone's avatar
    ezone
    Star
    Nov 01, 2018

    After a software upgrade to latest software it all suddenly starts to work . I started with my bridge and after i'v seen it work well on that one i also installed it to my main router and got amazing wifi speed . 416 Mbits down and 136 Mbits up and i'v got a 500 / 100 connection.

    • antinode's avatar
      antinode
      Guru
      Nov 01, 2018

      > After a software upgrade to latest software [...]

         As always, an actual version number would be more useful than your
      opinion of what's "latest" today.

      • JohnWill's avatar
        JohnWill
        Tutor
        Nov 01, 2018

        Well I guess they mean the new one - V1.0.9.42_10.2.44

        Saw the post and did a speed test on the 2.4GHz and could only get 40Mbps a couple of metres away from the router, updated and repeated test and it was around 110Mbps.  I've now re-enabled the 5GHz radio which I'd disabled as it was hopeless - speed test is giving me 217Mbps (wired is around 220Mbps download) so hopefully it's sorted now.

        As long as I'm getting decent wireless speeds now I'll be very careful about routinely updating to the latest firmware again - I was ready to reolace this router with an alternative to solve the issue.