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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
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Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
I tried enabling Circle with Disney. I have seen a 30-35% drop in bandwidth when in use. If I switch back to using OpenDNS performance reverts to normal levels. Anyone else noticed this? I am running the latest firmware.
More details: I have a 200 Mbps connection and using http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest I can see that I am getting what I pay for when OpenDNS is enabled. When I switch to using Circle, bandwidth during the speedtest drops to 130-140 Mbps.
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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
Welcome to the community, @f1dad
Did you reset the unit after updating to the latest firmware?
How many devices are connected to the router?
Can you provide your network setup?
Are you testing the speed through wired or wireless connection?
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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
Hi @ElaineM,
By reset do you mean power cycle? I didn't do anything other than let the firmware update complete as normal.
I have 14 wireless and 3 wired devices connected to the R7000. I have a EX7000 extender connected to the R7000 and my test machine is actually connected to the EX7000 (along with 4 other devices). So, PC --wired--> EX7000 --wireless--> R7000 --wired--> Cable modem.
Works well and I get a consistent 200 Mbps using OpenDNS as I write this. Switched to Circle again just now to retest and still get 125 Mbps.
Rych
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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
I really like circle and hope you can sort this out: for now staying w opendns
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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
Hi @f1dad,
I believe Elaine was referring to a factory reset which we recommend after updating the router's firmware. The link below may help out.
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9665
1. Does the issue persist on devices that are connected straight to the router?
2. Does the issue persist on all your devices (wired and wireless)?
3. Does the issue persist on both bands (2.4GHz and 5GHz)?
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
Same issue here, I was looking if someone did a post about that when I found this one. I was getting 5Mbps, and didn't think about Circle on Netgear at first, so I contacted Comcast. The guy came and did a hard reset of the router (R7000). Back to 300Mbps! I re-configured all my local LAN and stuff, still getting 300Mbps. I re-enable Circle and reset my phone app. Starts to add 10 devices-ish, I'm now down to 150Mbps (I had around 40 devices, seems the more devices the slower). Disable Circle (not even rebooting the router), back to 3000Mbps.
I like Circle, but if the router is not able to follow, I might buy the real Circle box.
Disappointing.
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Re: Reduced bandwidth with Disney Circle
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