Tario70
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Hi!
I just bought an R7800 (on sale for 199 at Best Buy!) & in the process of setting it up I have run into 2 issues.
Lastly, I'm coming from a D-Link DIR-825 that worked flawlessly with WOL over WAN so I know it works. The big difference was the DLink had a "Virtual Server" section that allowed the setup of WOL where I'm just port forwarding on the R7800.
Any ideas/help?
Thanks in Advance!
Edit: So the big difference that the R7800 won't let me port forward to the broadcast frame/address of 255 which means no WoL via WAN. Anyone have any solutions? Netgear Guy?
Edit2:
Thanks again.
Final Edit:
I returned the router to Best Buy today. Without any way to really figure out the issues I just moved on.
Thanks for those that looked at the thread.
I just bought an R7800 (on sale for 199 at Best Buy!) & in the process of setting it up I have run into 2 issues.
- I cannot get WOL over WAN to work. I can see the request in my logs but the PC does not wake up. WOL over LAN works without issue. I also enabled respond to ping & verified my DDNS address responds to ping.
- While initially setting up the router I saw my download speeds in the 90-100 via hard wired & 57+ via my iPhone 6 on the 5GHz network. Now I'm seeing 10-12 via my hard wired PC & my iPhone 6. I've tried resetting the modem & rebooting the router but nothing.
Lastly, I'm coming from a D-Link DIR-825 that worked flawlessly with WOL over WAN so I know it works. The big difference was the DLink had a "Virtual Server" section that allowed the setup of WOL where I'm just port forwarding on the R7800.
Any ideas/help?
Thanks in Advance!
Edit: So the big difference that the R7800 won't let me port forward to the broadcast frame/address of 255 which means no WoL via WAN. Anyone have any solutions? Netgear Guy?
Edit2:
- I reset the router to factory settings & that did not fix the speed issue. I also tried a 30-30-30 reset & re-updated the firmware to the latest version with zero changes. For troubleshooting purposes, I had my DIR-825 & R7800 both powered on & would swap the network cables back & forth. The 825 would be in the 80-90mbps down while the R7800 would not hit higher than 15. QoS was disabled for all testing
- For the WoL issue, does the R7800 have the ability to run as an OpenVPN server? So that I could basically connect to my network through my phone, then send the WoL packet to wake up my machine. WoL worked consistently while on my local network & this could be a work around.
Thanks again.
Final Edit:
I returned the router to Best Buy today. Without any way to really figure out the issues I just moved on.
Thanks for those that looked at the thread.
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