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FSB75
Apr 13, 2022Aspirant
Router bottlenecking (throttling) NOT WIFI
I recently upgraded to Gigabit service and did not see the expected speeds. I bypassed the router and connected directly to the modem (Hitron E31N2V1)....sure enough, after rebooting both, the speed...
- Apr 14, 2022
make sure you have access control, traffic monitoring, parental controls, and qos all disabled and then reboot the device.
Those services disable ctf which is needed for that router to hit gigabit speeds through the wan interface.
If that doesn't work, factory reset it and reinstall (not from a backup). again, leave those services disabled.
plemans
Apr 14, 2022Guru - Experienced User
make sure you have access control, traffic monitoring, parental controls, and qos all disabled and then reboot the device.
Those services disable ctf which is needed for that router to hit gigabit speeds through the wan interface.
If that doesn't work, factory reset it and reinstall (not from a backup). again, leave those services disabled.
- FSB75Apr 14, 2022Aspirant
It's a shame, to me, that these settings worked. I'm going to do some more testing with the settings as I really like using access control. I don't broadcast my SSID, and block new connections (MACs) automatically. It's strange that I can't have both speed and control. I was never using QoS, but made sure it was disabled. Then I turned off access control and didn't see a change. Finally I looked at the traffic meter...this one is interesting. While the option for "Enable traffic meter" was in fact checked, it was set for "Traffic volume control by "no limit"". So even though I'd read these options for other solutions I didn't think it applied to my hardwired problem, only WIFI. Once I completely turned off the traffic meter, bam, 870ish Mbps.
Thank you for your help. Now the decision for me is to install a simple switch and keep the BS router for simple things like printers and cell phones.