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Nighthawk X6 R8000 not getting gigabit speeds
Hi so I recently got a nighthawk router because i was upgrading my internet to gigabit speeds and I wanted to get the best experience for it but i havent been able to get close to 1 gigabite speeds. ...
Day 4 of good WAN to LAN speeds:
Day 6 and still getting good speeds:
This will be my last speed test.
Seems the v.76 FW suffers from the DNS issues seen by others. Though is not a show stopper, it's present on this version of FW. I've reverted back to v.62 as this version seems to work best for DNS for the R8000. This has been passed on to NG.
Good Luck.
I hope I can help someone with an R8000 not getting 1Gb ethernet speed.
First of all any Firmware version greater than V1.0.4.68_10.1.75 is junk and has serious DNS issues which will cause you to have to reload web pages very often. Get V1.0.4.68_10.1.75 and never go forward. Disable auto updating of the firmware. I know because I've fought with this for nearly 2 years.
. I got 1Gb Google Fiber installed this morning which will replace my Comcast connection. I was getting 320Mb down and 12Mb up speeds. When the GF tech came he installed a wifi router and a mesh wifi mesh repeater. He showed me on the google app an up and down speed of 900+ which is Gb speed. Cool I thought. GF said they would provide a router and repeater but it really isn't so. Its a wifi router only. I have a heavily wired network with reserved addresses, NAS, wired network printer, port forwarding, etc. Be warned that all you get with GF is a wifi network. The tech said I just need to take their ethernet cable from their "router" (remember pretty much wifi only) and plug it into my R8000 input where the current Comcast modem is. Sounds just like it should. When I did that my speed was only 98Mb up and down. I replaced the stupid flat ethernet cable that came with the GF router to a Cat6 I made. Now the speed went to about 360Mb down and up. I can't belive they don't even supply a Cat5e cable.
Now 320Mb is not 1Gb. I rebooted turned off QoS and Traffic Monitoring as suggested but no change. I wish I could find the reference but found a comment that if the R8000 has any of those 2 settings checked it sets off a switch where it uses the R8000's CPU to process data instead of passing it through untouched.
Here is my fix. First go in and disable QoS and Traffic monitoring. I unchecked the 3 WMM settings also. With GF 1Gb speed and unlimited data you don't need these anyway. You'll have to do these individually and "accept" them on the setting page. After the 2 reboots, go in and backup the configuration settings to a .cfg file. That file will be in your download directory. Now go hold the reset button with a pin on the R8000 for 7-10 seconds and release. It will factory reset the modem and reset that traffic pass-though switch setting. After fighting with register/buy this/ignoring auto-update/logging in with default password/etc., go in and restore the settings from the .cfg file you saved previously. Wa-la! 981Gb up and down.
I hope this helps someone.
Also found that Circle can slow things down as well.
WMM is recommended to be enabled as this supports faster speeds between the router and wifi devices only.
I found that if Armor, Circle or Traffic Meter had been enabled at any point in any version of FW. A factory reset is needed and setup from scratch and don't enabled these 3.
Also to help with DNS issue, IPv6 should be enabled on the router in newer versions of FW.