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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    Yep all my stuff is on UPS. You make a good argument for buying the refurb. My shopping cart is getting long LOL. Guess I'll sleep on it. Rather not support Netgear with any additional purchases, but appears to be a tough time to invest in a whole new infrastructure.
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    I actually did go thru testing with a switch between modem and router. it showed 1000m between modem and switch, 100m between router and switch. Think the router is toast. And I did look up my records, this is the SECOND R8000 with the exact same issue. The first one was returned to Netgear...
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    Thank you! I really appreciate your contributions as well as from the others here! I do have each of my bands setup with unique SSIDs. I just manually connect my devices to the two 5Ghz based on what I think is a balanced load between the two. If I can't get this thing to run 1000, I have to...
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    Just booted back up again as directed with it still showing 100M. I swear this seems like it's happened to a previous router of mine.
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    ok, i will try that now and will report back once all is back up again. Thank you!!
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    I've swapped cables that were running at 1000 with the cable between the modem/router and still the wan speed shows 100. seems my router's WAN port won't run 1000 anymore?
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    I just checked via the router stats, and it does appear to be running 100Mbit. I don't know why that would be. I've tried many different cables thru all my tests. I wonder if the router jack is broken?
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    Thank you. That seems to be the router i hear people preferring, yet I don't understand why the tri bands are not more popular. Kinda why I'm wondering if I'm even utilizing tri band now with my R8000. I like having two 5 GHz networks to divide my heavy bandwidth devices (streaming tvs and...
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    Do I need a tri band? Need a new Router but torn at choices

    Hello All: I currently have a Nighthawk R8000. My speeds no matter what firmware I've tried, are capped at ~95 mbps both wired and wireless testing, whereas I'm getting ~470 at the modem. I've pretty much exhausted everything else I could think of, so I'm now looking to buy a new router. I...
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    R8000 slow speeds

    Hey all: I've tried to search before posting, so please forgive me as I couldn't find help with this. I have a R8000 that seems to be capped out on data speeds at around 95 mbps. This is true for both wired and wireless speed tests. Running speed tests direct from modem gets me around 470...
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