R8000 Circle Performance issues in the last month (start of October 2020)

[optimistatheart]

Anyone else had massive Circle performance issues in the past month?

I am on a 50MB/s Fibre to the curb NBN plan here in Melbourne, Australia.

When I disable Circle I get 50MB/s download and 18MB/s upload.

With Circle enabled I get half that or even less.  Sometimes even as low as 1MB download.  A restart of the router helps a bit temporarily but then degrades quickly.  Some sites don't load.

I have tried some of the solutions here https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/Dynamic-QoS-and-Parental-Controls-massively-...

Tried resetting the router and new firmware.

Tried disabling QOS WMM and Dynamic QOS but none of that is helping at the moment.

Suspecting the Circle servers that are filtering content are overloaded.

Switched back to standard opendns for now.

[FURRYe38]

Please post about this in the Circle app forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Circle-Smart-Parental-Controls/bd-p/en-home-circle
Good Luck