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Lan speed limited to 100mbps? R7500
I have a nighthawk R7500 AC2300 gigabit router and while troubleshooting something else I noticed that in the router Genie setup all four of the lan ports in use are showing 100mbps speed. All of th...
- The router ports are auto-sensing. The NIC drivers will often have a speed setting, so check there. Double check your Ethernet cables. They should be Cat5E or better. As a last resort, perform a factory reset of the router.
The router ports are auto-sensing. The NIC drivers will often have a speed setting, so check there. Double check your Ethernet cables. They should be Cat5E or better. As a last resort, perform a factory reset of the router.
Thanks for the reply. I have tried to change the NIC "Speed and Duplex" setting from the default "Auto Negotiation" to "1.0Gbps Full Duplex". Neither setting has any effect on the speed. The cable is 50' Cat5e. I'm very reluctant to do a factory reset on the router but I suppose it can be done if I have to.