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Since a week or 2 I get very slow internet speeds when using the R8000. Sometimes the entire connection drops.
I have a 250 Mbps (downstream) and 25 Mbps (upstream) internet connection.
I already had a cable guy over checking the modem and signal, but all looks good.
The modem I have is a Ziggo Connect Box, which is in bridge mode, so the R8000 functions as the router. I noticed I had Qos turned on and read somewhere it is better to turn that off, so I did, and restarted the R8000. This didn't solve anything.
I did a reset of the cable modem/router so that it is no longer in bridge mode, and with that I get the normal speeds and no drops.
Firmware version installed on the R8000 is V1.0.4.66_10.1.75.
Well, in my case I think it was not Armor: when I switched to a new wifi 6 Asus router, the problem was still there. Eventually it turned out to be some application running on my Synology that was draining the internet connection. After tuning the settings of that application, it worked fine again. Strange thing was that it used to work fine before with the previous settings, so I didn't suspect any application causing this.
I haven't tried that yet, but I'll give that a try. Weird thing is that it used to work before. What if I put my cable modem out if bridge and the netgear with AP activated? Do I still need to make other settings? Can I still use netgear router to block certain ports for an internal IP of my NAS so that it will always go through my VPN? What about DHCP? Is the netgear one my cable modem going to take care of that?
Then AP mode is not an option for me, since I bought this netgear router +2 years ago so I could have more control, such as blocking services on a certain IP (which I can't do with my cable modem router).
What I can see from that link, almost everything in the netgear router is disabled, so I don't see the point of still using it.
I did not do factory reset of netgear router. I will give that a try first. And then install to latest firmware? I also read some posts to use older firmware before Armor was introduced, but then I'm also missing other (security) updates.
I did a factory reset and I'm now manually configuring all the settings I had before the factory reset (so not from a backup).
However, when I try to forward port 443 to a specific IP of my NAS, I get an error message:
The specified port (s) is / are used by other configurations. Check your configurations for remote management, port forwarding and activation, USB Readyshare, UPnP port mapping table, RIP, and Internet connection type.
I did see the port 443 is set in USB Readyshare. However, I was able to forward port 443 before with the same settings, but that was a long time ago with a much older firmware version.
I did notice I'm still on the latest firmware V1.0.4.66_10.1.75 after the factory reset.
What the heck just happened: a spontaneous factory reset??! Yesterday slow connection again, and just now entire connection gone. To my surprise, I noticed the NETGEAR72 wifi SID instead of my own and logging in into the router on 192.168.0.1 no longer worked. Everything seems to have reset back to factory settings all by it self.
No I haven't. Not sure what version I should downgrade to. I read some people downgraded before Armor was introduced, but that means going back more than a year (maybe missing other important security updates). Would be good if this is addressed in a newer firmware release.
Restored the backup settings I made last week, numerous devices were blocked again and admin pages loading extremly slow.
Temporarily I could switch back to an older firmware version, but which one?
Yes, but I changed it to 192.168.0.1 because my NAS and DNS entries are also configured in that range. This has worked fine for the first 2 years that I have this router. After a spontaneous factory reset, all settings were gone.
I have now reverted back to the older firmware version (without doing a factory reset again by the way).
Well, in my case I think it was not Armor: when I switched to a new wifi 6 Asus router, the problem was still there. Eventually it turned out to be some application running on my Synology that was draining the internet connection. After tuning the settings of that application, it worked fine again. Strange thing was that it used to work fine before with the previous settings, so I didn't suspect any application causing this.
