Archer C4000, Virgin Media, Speed Tests
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I have a C4000 that is plugged into Virgin Media Hub 3 on modem mode. It all worked swimmingly well, until I got a new Dell XPS 15 9500.....
The new laptop speeds where atrocious, and after much experimentation (Dell "support" were not supportive....) I discovered uninstalling the Killer network app got my speeds back up. Never has a piece of software been so correctly named.
However, I now have as issue with the speedtest results I get from the C4000 tether app.
Here is the result when tested on my Android phone using the speedtest app, getting what I pay for;
And here is the result via the TP Link app;
What's going on here?!
@Kevin_Z Thanks for the advice.
Yes, I've already switched off all the QoS options on the Archer. The Killer app (superbly appropriately named - I assume their next software will be called "crap" or something) was basically mostly QoS as well, hence when I uninstalled it.
Just to give you an idea of how all over the place the speedtest on the router is, here's one I did in the dead of last night:
I got excited that it was all working out.....but then here's one I just did:
The acid test was switching off the Archer C4000 & placing the Virgin Hub back into router mode temporarily, and I was hitting wifi speeds of over 500Mbps solidly, at least close to the Hub 3.
Switched it all back around again, and the now Archer controlled speeds plummeted.
It's most frustrating!
I'll try the factory reset on the Archer. If that fails, I'll just have to unplug the Archer and use the much criticized Hub 3 for wifi. However poor people think it is, if it's beating the Archer C4000 by 400% in speeds, I'd be stupid to not use it. Shame about the money I spent on the Archer, though, but there's always EBay.