Question router slowing download speeds

[velocci]

Hi all, I recently upgraded my internet to 1Gbps. I have a modem from my ISP. I have it in bridged mode cause I have my own router plugged into it. it only has 4 lan ports but I have many wired devices. so I also have a 12 port switch plugged into the router. All my devices are plugged into the switch. after getting that 1Gbps internet package, I used speedtest.net to test my download and upload speeds and I was lucky to get over 500Mbps. using some other servers I would get even less. so I plugged my computer directly into the modem and ran the test again and got 930Mbps at most. so I know its not my ISP or my modem. I plugged my machine directly into my router with the switch unplugged. so now its just my machine on the router, nothing else. I ran the test again and got over 500Mbps again. so that means my router is the problem. I have the Netgear R7200. I went into the configuration of the router and that port is set to 1000M/full. so the port is not the problem. this router should be capable of getting me 1Gbps on my machine. Why do you think I'm getting only half of it? is there a spec on this router that's preventing it? or a setting to check for? and second question, do you have any recommendations as to what router should I upgrade to? preferably a Netgear cause I'm used to its configuration. as far as requirements goes, I'm not a gamer. But I do have a QNAP nas and on this nas I have a VM that I use for private torrents. my two media streamers are wired and sometimes stream from netflix or from my Plex server. my wireless requirements are not high. I just have a few phones and a couple of tablets. my wife often streams from spotify. thanks in advance.

 

[lantis3]

Turn off QoS feature.

 

[kanewolf]

Hi all, I recently upgraded my internet to 1Gbps. I have a modem from my ISP. I have it in bridged mode cause I have my own router plugged into it. it only has 4 lan ports but I have many wired devices. so I also have a 12 port switch plugged into the router. All my devices are plugged into the switch. after getting that 1Gbps internet package, I used speedtest.net to test my download and upload speeds and I was lucky to get over 500Mbps. using some other servers I would get even less. so I plugged my computer directly into the modem and ran the test again and got 930Mbps at most. so I know its not my ISP or my modem. I plugged my machine directly into my router with the switch unplugged. so now its just my machine on the router, nothing else. I ran the test again and got over 500Mbps again. so that means my router is the problem. I have the Netgear R7200. I went into the configuration of the router and that port is set to 1000M/full. so the port is not the problem. this router should be capable of getting me 1Gbps on my machine. Why do you think I'm getting only half of it? is there a spec on this router that's preventing it? or a setting to check for? and second question, do you have any recommendations as to what router should I upgrade to? preferably a Netgear cause I'm used to its configuration. as far as requirements goes, I'm not a gamer. But I do have a QNAP nas and on this nas I have a VM that I use for private torrents. my two media streamers are wired and sometimes stream from netflix or from my Plex server. my wireless requirements are not high. I just have a few phones and a couple of tablets. my wife often streams from spotify. thanks in advance.

I would start by saving your current config to your PC then doing a factory reset of the router. There are a lot of things you can enable in a router that will slow it down. A factory reset will clear all that. Then just set basic features, admin password, SSID and WIFI password. Then retest.

 

[velocci]

thanks Lantis3 and kanewolf, I will try those.

 

[velocci]

Turn off QoS feature.

QoS was already disabled

 

[velocci]

I would start by saving your current config to your PC then doing a factory reset of the router. There are a lot of things you can enable in a router that will slow it down. A factory reset will clear all that. Then just set basic features, admin password, SSID and WIFI password. Then retest.

If I backup my settings, will it backup every setting? Are there settings it won’t backup?

 

[lantis3]

Did you stop torrenting when you do the speedtest?

 

[velocci]

Did you stop torrenting when you do the speedtest?

No. But I wasn’t downloading at the time and was barely uploading anything. My upload speed from my ISP is 50Mbs and I normally actually do more like 200Kbps at best anyways. But just in case I will try the speed test without the torrenting.

 

[lantis3]

So 500Mbps speedtest results all coming from wired devices?

 

[velocci]

So 500Mbps speedtest results all coming from wired devices?

I just remembered, when I had my PC plugged into my routers all alone without my switch, it was just the modem, router and the PC and the speedtest measured over 500Mbps. only when I had the PC plugged directly into the modem did I get speeds of 933Mbps. so the issue is with the router. either there is a setting in there preventing it from reaching the 1Gbps or its just old. but it is a 1Gbps router so it should be fine. so it must be a setting.

 

[lantis3]

modem model?

also try to reset windows network.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ndows-10/699e8f07-0e0d-4be3-9da9-f4094ff9746d

 

[kanewolf]

I just remembered, when I had my PC plugged into my routers all alone without my switch, it was just the modem, router and the PC and the speedtest measured over 500Mbps. only when I had the PC plugged directly into the modem did I get speeds of 933Mbps. so the issue is with the router. either there is a setting in there preventing it from reaching the 1Gbps or its just old. but it is a 1Gbps router so it should be fine. so it must be a setting.

Did you factory reset it ?

 

[BFG-9000]

Your R7200 uses the MediaTek MT7621AT SoC which has two 880MHz MIPs CPU cores.

Smallnetbuilder reviewed the D-Link DIR-882 which is similarly equipped, and while that benched 939Mbps WAN-to-LAN using iperf3 of their test rev10 which is pretty much gigabit line speed, closely reading the review shows it got only 46.1% of that (or 433Mbps) when using the smaller packets of HTTP. Their speculation was this is a CPU limitation.

There are plenty of routers nowadays that can rout at full gigabit line speeds, but I suggest you read the reviews carefully. After all someone shopping for a DIR-882 seven years ago could have easily missed that caveat.