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Nighthawk R7000 Slow wired speeds Verizon Fios
Hello, having issues with wired download speeds with my R7000 Nighthawk on Verizon Fios. I removed the Fios gateway, and have the Nighthawk router connected to the WAN from the ONT. I have a Actionte...
I did a reset of the ONT. No dice, still had slow speeds. So I did a factory reset on the Nighthawk. After comgin back up, I was going through all the settings and lo and behold, the IPv6 setting was disabled. I set it to auto-detect and after updating (showing as 6to4 tunnel), I am now getting close to gigabit d/l and u/l. No idea how or why it was disabled, but that was the problem.
Hey, thanks for the reply. I did read about the new firmware. I had my Nighthawk connected to the Fios gateway as an access point. Wanted to use the Nighthawk to handle the wifi. Hard wired my comp to the Nighthawk and had same issues as now. Very slow. Hard wired into the Fios gateway and was getting over 750 Mbps. Was using an older firmware when it was setup.
which version of firmware? The .60 and .62 rate about the same.
- Did not make note what firmware was running in October last year when I had Fios installed. I could try to downgrade the firmware. Where would I find archived firmware?
If you pull up the R7000 page, down at the bottom of the downloads is + view previous verions. Thats where it'll be.
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/r7000.aspx
Make sure to do a reset after the downgrade.
Well, did a dowgrade to the .42 firmware. No dice. Still slow download speeds coming from the Nighthawk. Tested both firmware versions with the Fios speed test, router itself was at 930Mbps with both firmware versions, don't think it's the firmware. My comp download speeds were between 150-200 Mbps. Not sure what to try next. Is it possible there is something wrong with the router not being able to allow the high speeds?