I recently purchased a Netgear R7800, based in part on the impressive performance as tested here. As soon as I connected and configured the router I went to speedtest.net to verify the connect speed. To my surprise, I was seeing 94Mbps up and down, vs the 940Mbps up and down I previously saw. I have Webpass which provides an ethernet connection - I bypassed the router by directly connecting my computer to the ethernet and saw the same slow down. I thought this test implicated the wiring. I was wrong.
A Webpass tech came out and found nothing wrong in the wiring. He told me the router will negotiate a speed based on signal strength (or noise floor). When I bypassed the R7800, I still was using the previously negotiated line speed (100 Mbps).
Sure enough, I go back to my previous router, an ASUS AC68p, and I am back to 1 Gbps.
The tech said there could be a router config option to make the line speed negotiation more noise tolerant, but I couldn't find anything in the Netgear router UI.
Any suggestions for tweaking my R7800 so I can get back to my 1 Gbps connection?
Thanks!
A Webpass tech came out and found nothing wrong in the wiring. He told me the router will negotiate a speed based on signal strength (or noise floor). When I bypassed the R7800, I still was using the previously negotiated line speed (100 Mbps).
Sure enough, I go back to my previous router, an ASUS AC68p, and I am back to 1 Gbps.
The tech said there could be a router config option to make the line speed negotiation more noise tolerant, but I couldn't find anything in the Netgear router UI.
Any suggestions for tweaking my R7800 so I can get back to my 1 Gbps connection?
Thanks!