ZomboWombo
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I bought an RT-N66R about a month ago and it has been a dream. With my previous router, my wireless speeds on my mobile devices were 5-10 mbs. (I have a 50/10 package from Comcast). Now I get a stable 40/10 on my wireless devices. I have no problems playing games and streaming anymore. There is one problem however, I noticed when I am directly downloading something get up to 3Mb/s (which is completely fine by me) but all of a sudden the download starts slowing down and hovers at 150 kb/s max. Then I do a speed test and it says my download speed is 1 MB. I have to reset my wireless adapter on my desktop to get my normal speed again. When my downloads however around 1-2.5 MB/s there is no problem.
Here are some notes:
I have the latest merlins firmware and still the same issue. It also happen with a previous version.
This effects all my devices. For example I was downloading a game on my desktop using blizzard downloader, (same thing happened with Steam) it got up to around 2.8 mbs and then boom it slowed down to 150 Kb/s. Then I do a speed test on my laptop and it says my download speed is .78 mbs. My tablet says its download speed is .50 mbs and so on. When I stop the download and run a speed test my wireless devices get back to the normal 40 mbs download and 10 mb upload again.
So what is causing this? It it my ISP or does the router have some kind of "slow down" when the download speeds get too high.
Here are some notes:
I have the latest merlins firmware and still the same issue. It also happen with a previous version.
This effects all my devices. For example I was downloading a game on my desktop using blizzard downloader, (same thing happened with Steam) it got up to around 2.8 mbs and then boom it slowed down to 150 Kb/s. Then I do a speed test on my laptop and it says my download speed is .78 mbs. My tablet says its download speed is .50 mbs and so on. When I stop the download and run a speed test my wireless devices get back to the normal 40 mbs download and 10 mb upload again.
So what is causing this? It it my ISP or does the router have some kind of "slow down" when the download speeds get too high.