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Slow Wifi With NightHawk N7000
Good morning! I am currently using a Netgear Nighthawk N7000 with firmware V1.0.9.88_10.2.88 and an Arris Surboard 6183 for my modem.
I have been getting only 10-30mbps speeds with the wifi on the router since it was installed a couple months ago. I have tried the following steps:
1) Bypassing the router completely, plugging my desktop directly into the modem with a LAN resulting in 100-150mbps
2) Connecting to the router directly with a LAN cable with same result as above
3) Factory reset of router and set up wireless network
4) Issues continue with dropped connection to devices on wifi
Would appreciate any help! Thanks
2 Replies
1. Your firmware indicate you're using an R7000, not an N7000
2. Your firmare is out of date
3. are you testing over the 5ghz band or the 2.4ghz band? 2.4ghz is much slower and sensitive to interference
Nighthawk R7000 | AC1900 Smart WiFi Router | NETGEAR Support
Sorry for the typos, and thank you for the feedback!
The auto-update on the firmware was not showing any updates but was able to get it updated with the link you provided!
I have also started looking into the QoS options that are on the router that I had not looked into yet. I will update later today once I am able to do some additional testing around work.
