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Neth
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Apr 02, 2018
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Nighthawk R7000 Slow WiFi speed

Hi! I've been having some issues with my Nighthawk R7000 for quite some time. I've googled and read contless forums on the issue but have never found any solution which has worked for me. The ...
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    XRaptor29
    Apr 02, 2018
    I believe all the issues start at 1.0.9.18 and continue to 1.0.9.26 firmware. Have you tried an earlier firmware and see if that fixes it?
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Neth
Aspirant
Apr 02, 2018

Hi Case850 , and thanks for replying.

I did have Access Control enabled. I disabled it but the problem remains the same.

All the other ones were already off.

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Neth
Aspirant
Apr 02, 2018

Update:

I downgraded the firmware to V1.0.9.14_1.2.25.

This seem to have helped for cabled connection.

New speed test shows:

D/L: 617,59 Mbit/s

U/L: 380,80 Mbit/s

 

However, when measuring Wireless speed with my S7 the results are still bad:

D/L: 19,57 Mbit/s

U/L: 18,04 Mbit/s