C7000 Blinking lights

[Datagg]

Hello. Just purchased this the other day. Getting great 330 down, around 40-50 up. Have cox ultimate. Those speed tests run on hardwired side. My concern is the wireless side. The first couple days wireless side it worked better (all seemed faster) yet today appear to be intermittent and slower at times. I power cycled router to see if that would help, yet all is the same. I noticed though once all was up and running, my 2.4 and 5 band lights blink on and off in sporadic intervals as does the wireless symbol.  All else is solid green. Reading the manuals and looking at what I could find in the net,  It appears these lights are supposed to be solid green, would that be correct?. My thoughts are that if they are supposed to be solid and they are blinking that my wireless side is intermittent and could explain things of being fast, then seemingly much slower. Would those blinking lights confirm an issue, or is that standard behavior? 

Thanks for your help

[Datagg]

Sorry for the second post before a reply. I guess those lights blinking is suggesting its transmitting. I wouldn't have questioned that if the manual says blinking, yet all it states in solid. Anyways, im seeing this on wired side. I am really happy about this. Doing a speed test wired side, dslreports shows a 320.4 down, up being 30.7 on this run.

On the flip side, wireless. Doing a test using various cell phone apps, in this particular case speedtest (by ookla) 2.4 showing 61.61 Mbps down, 27.75 up. On the 5 band, showing 179.11 down and 32.30 up.

Far as Dbm, im showing on another app looking at cell right now, -41 Dbm on 2.4 and -32 on 5. Now i wish i was pushing more out on the wireless side on 2.4, not sure why its so low in comparison. Each showing though 100% power on each app run. Now the issue is, things on the wireless side seem slower. The Xb1 takes much longer to load say YouTube, twitch etc.... And the cell im on right now, taking longer to load up a website for instance. It was this that prompted me to wonder cause those lights were blinking if something was wrong. The wireless side, even though i didn't test as much prior with the rig i had before, a DPC 3212 and a Asus rtn56u, those items were much faster than they are now. So im not getting as to why?

Any suggestions?... Speeds seem good. The Cell phones are on the 2.4, as they were on last rig, and the Xb1 is on the 5 band, as it was prior with old rig before yet as mentioned were all faster then. Based on my current speeds i expected more speed on that end (which it appears I am on tests run yet real world they are slower.

If anyone has any ideas, or suggestions as to why, sure would love to hear them. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to be as thorough as i could be.

Thanks.

[DarrenM]

Hello Datagg

Have you tried to adjust you wireless channels to see if you can improve your speeds? Also you may want to disable the WMM under Advanced- Advanced Setup- Wireless settings uncheck those boxes and see in that helps.

DarrenM

[Datagg]

Hello,

Yes i have tried. Signals especially 2.4GhZ is horrid. i sent a image in of a speedtest in my back bedroom where it got litteraly, 7MBps down and 1Mbps up. yet earlier it was 42Mbps and 16Mbps. Walk closer to the router, it will improve some, yet not by much. This house is 1,200 Square feet, single floor so its not like its far away. My speeds here asre 300MBps down and up to 50 up.  Real world, wired side im seeing wired side 330Mbps down, 30Mbps up based on last speedtest done. yet wirelsssly, not even close to those numbers on both bands.  Clients that previously worked without fail for yerars, now buffer and stop stating connection error. Its really bad.  Line checks show all good, power shows all good. yet whats happening is real.  You cant go from great clients, to the day after C7000 to bad withiout pointing fingers.  i also told the techs, the firmware i beleive to be the issue. All of what i stated to you occured after a day or so when my ISP pushed out the .18 firmware. My brother is seerign the same behavior,  great signals day 1 and then partly into 2 then .18 dropepd and signals went from good to horrid.  No amount of channel surfing eleviates the situation. And of course i cant downgrade firmware as the ISP is incontrol of that in the combo unit.  

anwyays, thats where i am at right now. Holding out for a firmware update, yet as time goes on with no clue of when that will happen and clients running really bad I dont know if i cant wait. if i bought the standalone Nighthawk I could control the firmware on my own, downgrade, upgrade at will.  Unforunetly that is not what i can do with this unit.  

Thanks.

[Datagg]

Wow reading up on the WMM settings lead me to see what the stand alone nighthawk can do compared to the c7000. Give priory to streaming services etc.  Seeing this here http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23853 for the stand alone model , this combo box sure is crippled in comparison. i would of liked those settings to try to see if i can get my clients to respond better.. yet apparently it cant be done like the stand alone.  i allready know this firmware is faulty per previous comments, yet now seeing this.  i should have gotten the stand alone setup based on what i am seeing and experiencing. Why remove all those tweaking settings in the combo unit? - You pulled a 8 cylinder mustang engine out and replaced it with a 6 cylinder engine from mazda. Why?