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Slow throughput from Gigabit ISP
I purchased my Nighthawk R9000 from FlashRouters with DD-WRT firmware installed and have had nothing but issues with its implementaion. I've been back-n-forth many times with the people there, and have spent a lot of time on the DD-WRT user board without help.
My next option is to revert the Nighthawk back to Netgear firmware and start over, but I want to make sure my throughput comes back.
With just over 900Mb down and 35Mb up from my ISP, I'm getting almost half that to wired connections and 1/3 of that to AC WiFi. Previously I had an Apple Airport Extreme and would get full speed on wired and 90% of that over AC WiFi, so I'm a little consufed why a router with so much processing power would crap out on me. I did connect one of my computers directly to my cable modem and have confirmed the 'purchased' speeds are coming in.
QOS and VPN services are all off within the DD-WRT firmware... I'm just really looking for a response from ANYONE here who is running default Netgear firmware and is getting the speeds they're expecting.
Thanks
Glad you have a working r9000. I ran DD-WRT on various routers starting with a Linksys WRT54G back in 2006. Was a solid firmware for the most part and lots more knobs to twist.
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did you try the stock firmware?
Or Voxel's 3rd party firmware?
Thanks for the reply... and, NO, I haven't tried the stock firmware. I purchased the Nighthawk from FlashRouters presetup with DD-WRT and my ExpressVPN credentials.
I really just want to know if anyone else has had throughput issues with the stock firmware.
What is the advantage with Voxel over DD-WRT?
1. the firmware you've got is made by a company to work with its vpn setup. Their main goal is to sell vpn service and their setup, not support/update firmwares. Plus it always leaves them an "out" like "its netgear's hardware, its their fault" or "its because of how dd-wrt works". Their main goal isn't how well the router runs.
2. voxel's firmware has been pretty solid and well reviewed for 3rd party firmwares. its free and has been pretty popular for netgear devices.
3. The stock firmware does support gigabit. I don't have a R9000 so I can't personally attest to it hitting gigabit but I've helped others get to gigabit. the main recommendations I have are to avoid access control, qos, traffic monitoring if you're having issues.
