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I have both a Nighthawk modem and Router(R6700v3). ISP internet is 600-700mbps. When i hardwire my laptop directly into the modem, I get these speeds. however, anything plugged into the router itself gets a max of maybe 250mbps including the same laptop using the same ethernet cable.
Roll the firmware back to 3_66. Looking through all the things I can find... isn’t much and NETGEAR support just hangs up on you. Useless pieces of **bleep**. Yes I work support, and yes I work in tech. The firmware after their Armor release seems to throttle at 250. Don’t know if it is the armor or what, but every update after that throttles at 250 even on a FIOS connection. Don’t waste time or money on their support as they don’t know nor want to help.
A number is more useful than "the latest". (It may not be by the time people read this.) There can also be newer versions, or "hot fixes", that do not show up if you check for new firmware in the browser interface.
Modem is NETGEAR Nighthawk Cable Modem with Voice - CM1150V - dont know how to check firmware version on that, however as I said hard-wiring other devices into that directly achieves speeds that I am supposed to get.
Modem is NETGEAR Nighthawk Cable Modem with Voice - CM1150V - dont know how to check firmware version on that, however as I said hard-wiring other devices into that directly achieves speeds that I am supposed to get.
OK. Not a modem/router. Forget about its firmware. It is beyond your control.
Check that you do not have QoS enabled on the R6700. Traffic metering, parental controls and other stuff that puts a strain on the R6700's processor can also cause slowdowns.
Roll the firmware back to 3_66. Looking through all the things I can find... isn’t much and NETGEAR support just hangs up on you. Useless pieces of **bleep**. Yes I work support, and yes I work in tech. The firmware after their Armor release seems to throttle at 250. Don’t know if it is the armor or what, but every update after that throttles at 250 even on a FIOS connection. Don’t waste time or money on their support as they don’t know nor want to help.
@SgtWorm wrote: Don’t know if it is the armor or what, but every update after that throttles at 250 even on a FIOS connection.
One possibility on thatr front is that this Armor stuff eats into the router's processor power. After all, it means that the router has to "police" the traffic that flows through it. That needs work.
In the past, one solution to "my router is slowing me down" complaints was to turn off QoS, traffic metering, logging and anything that take processor power. Now they have slapped on another layer of complexity.
In an attempt to shoehorn Armor into the router's memory, Netgear has also removed various features, such as media servers. someone of a suspicious mind might jump to the conclusion that these things are under powered.
