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XR300 Slow speeds (70 Mbs AverageTops)
Hi,
This is a last ditch effort to restore my faith in this router.
I purchased this in June, to upgrade the WiFi in the house and utilise some of the other features of the router, to turn a couple of virtual Machines off which the router would do (VPN mainly).
To cut a long story short I seem to be caped to about 70 MBs (speedtest.net) through the router.
I have worked though the guide for the best speed for XR routers on the side panel, and the results are as below:
With Virgin router normal Down 200+ Up 20
Plug the netgear router into virgin router (not in modem mode)
70-80 Down 20 Up
Place the virgin router in modem mode, same results.
Disable QOS from the hamburger - same results
Disable DDos - Same results
Re install firmware - Same results
Disable WiFi as I found someone on here mentioned - Same results
Any time I take this out and use the virgin router, 200+ down
I have taken this to work and tried it on the gigabit line directly from the ISP supplied Cisco router, same results - 70 /80 MBs down
I'm at a loss now, I can only assume there is a setting I have over looked, or for some reason the Lan port is locked to 10 / 100 despite showing 1000Mbs in the device manager.
In each test, I have made sure there is only one PC plugged into it and nothing connected via WiFi so it is not any bandwidth sharing.
It is not possible to use the old Mac address of the Virgin router, as this is still connected to their network as it is the modem
Best regards
Jimmy
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Re: XR300 Slow speeds (70 Mbs AverageTops)
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
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Re: XR300 Slow speeds (70 Mbs AverageTops)
What virgin modem/router is it?
Combo devices tend to have their own qos/bandwidth settings. And not all ISP's properly setup modem only/passthrough mode.
Have you tried the XR300 in access point? it does disable some features but its for testing purposes.
make sure to test it hardwired in.
also, what speed do you get directly off the virgin modem?
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Hi,
I have finally had chance to try the TFTP solution which unfortunatley has not helped.
The Virgin router is a Superhub 2, but does give 200+ Mbs when using this, and when I configured a VM pfsence box as a test, but plug the netgear in and I'm back to 70 MBs or so.
AP mode made no difference at all to the speed.
Is it a case that this is one of the faulty ones?
When I look at Argos' returns policy I need to call support for Netgear to get an approval, is this something I will need to do in addition, or is there a means to do that on here?
Best regards
Jimmy
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Hi,
Its all back to factory now, no extras turned on, even left the SSIDs the defualt ones.
Cheers
Jimmy
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Hi,
I dont seem to get offered a speedtest.
Step 1 - Asks if I want to auto configure, I select yes
Step 2 - Checks for an internet connection
Step 3 - Applies internet connection
Step 4 - Asks me to create Admin Settings
Step 5 - asks me to setup the WiFi
Step6 - Asks me to save my configuration details
Step 7 - Looks for updates
Step 8 - Tells me there are no new updates - Current Firmware V1.0.3.56, Current GUI V1.0.3.56_21.1.38.1
Step 9 - Loads Success Window
Clicking Next to this brings me to the main Dashboard.
If I go though again, but choose No, I want toconfigure myself I get the following
Step 2 - Connection Type (with Apply, Cancel and Test.
Test - Updates Settings
- After a minute, pops up the Netgear site, sayoing Connection Suceesfful
Apply - Moves to Step 3 after applying the settings, just applied when doing the test, that worked and brings me back to the same place.
However, out of curiosity, I have complicated the network a bit, and moved the router upstairs, to keep playing in a morbid curiosity, plugged the router into the Virgin Superhub, via 2 switches and left it in router mode, so acting as a secound router on the network.
I get the IP netmask of 10.0.0.0/24 which is to be expected, but on the PC I have plugged in to configure this, I get 215 MBs upstairs via these switches using speedtest.net.
This shows to me that the router is capable of the bandwidth
I am now moving the router back downstairs and testing with a simmular spec PC to see what results I get - I will update shortly
Best regards
Jimmy
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Re: XR300 Slow speeds (70 Mbs AverageTops)
Hi,
Looks like it is the number of devices...
I had the Router plugged in directly to the Virgin Superhub in Router mode, and on the subnet of 10.0.0.0/24 I was getting good results, plugged the network switch in that houses the rest of the house (9 physical devices, and a further 10 Virtual devices) it then dropped to 70 MBs again.
Put the Virgin super hub in Modem only mode, still 70 MBs
Took the network switch out, and back to 210 Mbs.
Disconnected the upstairs / downstairs link (taking 5 physical / 2 Virtual) and got 150 MBs consistantly
If I didnt rely on the VMs downstairs for the automation, and job, I could shut them down and test the theory that it will bring the speeds back up, but everything seems to point to this.
In all of the tests, I made sure QOS is off and it is, so I think I have found the limitation. I think the XR300 just doenst have the CPU to do what I need it to, which is a shame as the WiFi (which was the main reason for getting it, due to the Virgin one being crap) is excellent. Cant quite afford the XR500, so looks like Its a different brand for something a bit more grunty.
I've had to stop for tonight as the wife is wanting to watch Amazon now, so I've put it all back to normal with the Virgin Superhub being back in Router mode, and the netgear out of the mix.
For everyone that says 70 MBs is enough, we are paying a premium for the 200MBs service, so would like to use this.
Best regards
Jimmy
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Hi,
There will have been minimal traffic, JSON between eachother, but motly thats within the VM to VM traffic, the Physicals will have been mostly idle.
The DCs will have responded to the network outage, and back in, and the DHCP server will be restoring DHCP leases to the devices that needed it, along with any DNS queries.
It will be very little traffic, and nothing that should be down/uploading.
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Jimmy
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