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ex8000 Speed capped even while next to the router
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ex8000 Speed capped even while next to the router
After purchasing the ex8000 wifi extender for my room which is decently far from the router so I can use my laptop with decent speeds and not just 20 down 20 up I was extremely surprised with the performance of the ex8000. I went from really low speeds to around 300-500ish down and up. Then, randomly one day it went from those really nice speeds to 10 download 100 up. I'm not to familiar with networking stuff so I thought if I threw money at the problem getting whatever the best product I could find it solve my issues I was wrong. At this point I don't even think I could list all the things I've tired based off memory alone. I updated the firmware than factory restored it. Messed with a lot of settings like one wifi smart connect. Only enabling 5g. I use the extender with an ethernet cable connected to my laptop. Tried various ethernet cables. When I plug my laptop into my actual router I get the speeds you would expect for someone with fiber so around 800 up and down. I called netgear support, they sent me a new extender and well nothing changed. its still capped at 10 download and 100 upload it does not change. Not even when I put it next to the router the numbers maybe vary a little bit but nothing worth mentioning. At this point now I'm starting to suspect its my router I have Verizon fios and the router is the g3100. I turned off QoS that didn't help. I guess its worth mentioning that the signal strength the extender says in the settings are around 200+ mbps the lights are all white. I can't find anything online for this I have 0 clue what to do. At this point I'm totally lost. Any advice would be much appreciated, or recommendations for other products.
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Re: ex8000 Speed capped even while next to the router
On your G3100 are you using the self organizing network option?
If so, go into it and disable it. Then reset/reinstall the EX8000
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Re: ex8000 Speed capped even while next to the router
Just tried it, didn't work. I reset it and did the setup process and everything.
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Re: ex8000 Speed capped even while next to the router
Do you have another router you could try it with?
Or a family/friend/etc that you could bring it to their place and try it with.
You've had it replaced so its doubtful to be a hardware issue.
And I've seen issues with the G3100 and extenders before
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Re: ex8000 Speed capped even while next to the router
I don't think ill get a chance to check if it works with another router. But, I'm pretty sure its a router issue, not really sure what I need to do to fix it unfortunately.
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