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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
The XR500 router tested the correct speed during the initial setup. For whatever bizarre reason the downgraded speeds were setup in the QoS menu under Anti-Bufferbloat. Click on the three horizontal lines left of the wording and manually enter your speeds.
For Comcast, I am getting 300/20mbps (Ethernet only for my gaming PC) for the 250mbps tier plan. This will correct the "slow" speeds. You can do an Xfinity Speed Test under your Comcast account or Fast.com to verify speed. It will be close to the 250mbps or higher.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
Hello again,
After months of troubleshooting without any success I threw out my XR500 and reverted back to my old R7000.
Stability is back.
Speed is back.
And security is back.
Recommended solution.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
Judging by other this and other forums, and the poor software in the XR500 I say I made the right call. This product probably shouldn't have been released. Feels like it's still in Beta. Really badly optimized OS.
Either way, I'm using other Netgear products and they are working just great.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
SOLUTION: Re-run DumoOS the Setup Wizard.
I had a similar issue where the speeds directly from my cable/fios modem were ~100mbps up/down but when connected through the XR500 they were about ~20mpbs.
I tried disabling the QoS settings but that did not help.
I noticed on the QoS page on DumoOS that it showed my download speed at 23mpbs and I couldn't find any place to re-test or customize the values but felt what I was seeing on the QoS page was quite a coincidence to what I was seeing in speed test reports.
I re-ran the setup wizard on the XR500 and it started doing some speed test of its own. Once it completed now my speeds are at 100mpbs! up/down.
I strongly suggest is that NetGear add a new button on the menu "Calibrate Speed" or "Speed Test" or if QoS is enabled that it periodically do a speed test to make sure the router is optimized.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
Well done for fixing this. And that's definitely a feature we will look to add in the future.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
Turns out my problem was the router doesn’t accommodate under QoS for faster speeds than original setup conditions automatically.
I had to manually go into the pull down within QoS and change the speed limit from 170 to 500. And now I’m getting 450-460mbs.
This should definitely be looked at, as it’s not something that jumps out at you and for a novice end user, this wouldn’t even be something that they look at.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
Thanks for letting us know. This is on our roadmap to add for sure. Glad you solved your problem too.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
So i have had this modem for a couple of months now and have had no issues. Recently my speeds have dropped dramaticly and i cant work out why.
When i plug straight into the modem i get my normal speeds, but as soon as the router kicks in everything slows down.
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The XR500 router tested the correct speed during the initial setup. For whatever bizarre reason the downgraded speeds were setup in the QoS menu under Anti-Bufferbloat. Click on the three horizontal lines left of the wording and manually enter your speeds. Using Comcast Gigabit; so I set download at 1000 and upload at 40. Go into settings Admininstration->reboot. This will correct the "slow" speeds from the router. Do a speed test like Fast.com to verify speed.
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Re: Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
Also try setting your modem to bridge mode or modem mode if possible.
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