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Slow Wifi After Move House
I've recently moved house, and have plugged in the exact same modem and router, my X6 R8000. However, despite my modem and router getting great speeds, e.g. 50mbps down, I can't get more than 7mbps d...
Update:
I played around with a bunch of settings in my router, and disabling Dynamic QoS was what fixed my speed problem. I now have full speed to all my wifi devices (50mbps down and 18 up).
Is there a reason I should want Dynamic QoS on, or a way to set some devices as always having full speed if it is on?
Morphyoumax wrote:
Any ideas?
You've moved the kit. The Internet service is different.
Reset both modem and router and set them up again from scratch.
> [...] despite my modem and router getting great speeds, e.g. 50mbps
> down, [...]
"my modem" is not a very detailed description of anything. ("m" =
"milli" = 1/1000. "M" = "mega" = 1000000.)
These "great speeds" are for a wired device?
> [...] I can't get more than 7mbps down over wifi. [...]
Using what? On which radio band?
> [...] I've tried downgrading firmwares to a bunch of different ones
> with no effect.
That's about as helpful as "my modem".
> Any ideas?
In a different environment, the neighbors might cause (different)
radio interference. Changing channels might help.
> You've moved the kit. The Internet service is different.
Same modem and router. How "different" do you think that the service
could be? And this would affect the Wi-Fi speed how, exactly?
> Reset both modem and router and set them up again from scratch.
And, to get the full benefit, be sure to sacrifice a goat. Some
"experts" favor a chicken, but a goat is best.
Note: It is conceivable that after a settings reset, the router
_might_ choose a different radio channel on its own, based on its new
environment, so that move might not be a complete waste of time and
effort. Close, though. What resetting the modem might do remains a
mystery.
> "my modem" is not a very detailed description of anything.
Fair enough, my post was very light on detail. So:
my internet service is with TPG, I've moved from Heidelberg to Warragul in VIC, the modem is an Archer VR1600v that TPG supplied.
I can connect to the modem wifi network which gives me good speeds (50mbps down, 16mbps up, in line with what I'm paying for). I didn't use this wifi previously because the signal didn't and still doesn't cover the house as well as the Nighthawk X6 R8000 I'm trying to get better speeds from.
I can run a speedtest on the router using the netgear app on my android phone, which also gets 50down, 16up, leading me to think this is the speed direct to the router from the modem, and that the problem is with the router wifi. When I do a speedtest on my phone or pc while connected to the Nighthawk Wifi, I get 7mbps down and 1mbps up.
The firmwares I've tried are 1.0.3.54, 1.0.4.58, and 1.0.4.28.
I've tried disabling the Archer wifi network to clear radio space (is that rioght?), and I've tried setting the radio channels of my network manually to some different ones. First I tried channel 1 for the 2.4ghz, channels 44 and 161 for the two 5ghz networks, then one at a time changed channel 1 to 6 and 11, and the 5ghz networks to channels 36 and 149, all without change in the speeds in my wifi devices.
I'm almost at the sacrifice a goat stage. Should I try resetting everything? Any possible ideas would be appreciated, or if I've left out anything important please let me know. Thanks both for your responses so far.
Update:
I played around with a bunch of settings in my router, and disabling Dynamic QoS was what fixed my speed problem. I now have full speed to all my wifi devices (50mbps down and 18 up).
Is there a reason I should want Dynamic QoS on, or a way to set some devices as always having full speed if it is on?> Is there a reason I should want Dynamic QoS on, [...]
The usual folklore is that it does more harm than good for speeds
above around 300Mb/s, but that'd depend on various factors like CPU
speed, and who knows what else. (Other CPU-intense features include
access control and usage measurement.) I'd trust experimental results
over any such rule-of-thumb. (See the User Manual.)
Morphyoumax wrote:
> "my modem" is not a very detailed description of anything.
Fair enough, my post was very light on detail. So:
my internet service is with TPG, I've moved from Heidelberg to Warragul in VIC, the modem is an Archer VR1600v
That is a modem router. Your R8000 is also a router.
Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.
The two routers could also create the sort of issues that you experience.
This explains some of the other drawbacks.
What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
It may be possible to put the modem/router into modem only (bridge) mode and then to use the second device as the router. Sometimes it is easier to put the second router into AP mode. But that has its own drawbacks:
Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Morphyoumax wrote:
I've tried disabling the Archer wifi network to clear radio space (is that rioght?)....
No. That still leaves the Archer router active.
This is the sort of thing to look for:
Solved: How to set up a bridge on archer vr1600v. - TPG Community