Rebooted Router, Now Wired Connection is Slower than Wifi
ISP is Xfinity; internet tier is Extreme Pro rated up to 800 Mbps. Router is the Archer AX50. My modem is a Netgear CM1100. I have six wireless devices and one wired. The wired device is my primary laptop which sits directly beneath the router with with a Cat 6 cable.
On occasion I will shut down both router and modem for a few minutes as matter of maintenance, (maybe every 2 months or so), the most recent being this morning. Each time I do this my wired connection drops from its usual 940 Mbps to where it is right now, about 125 Mbps. Meanwhile, my wifi speed just clocked in at 388 Mbps. Based on past history, the wired connection will show these reduced speeds for several days and then gradually work back to the 900+ range.
Any ideas why this is happening? Thank you.
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I assume you mean six WIFI devices and one wired.
That is strange.
I would try:
- Different Ethernet cables
- Be sure you are using the power adapter that came with the router
- Try a different PC as it may be the PC.
- Bypass the router and connect the PC direct to the modem and check the results.
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@ArcherC8 Don't waste your time or money. TP-LINK knows there's a major problem with the firmware that cannot be fixed. I've owned 2 ac5400x models. One a version 1 and a version 2. I've owned the gx90, and an ax11000. All of them have slow throughput when using 1gig internet service. The problem according to the TP-Link engineer I finally got to look at my cases after owning almost 5,000 dollars worth of their routers is in the trend micro security coding. You can install a beta firmware that will gut the router of the firewall, antivirus, qos, and parental controls and it will stabilize the router for about a month and it will go right back to low throughput. The problem is the firmware has a massive leak in the memory. The routers can't stabilize the internet connection because it's overflow process is one massive bottleneck that was put there intentionally to cause issues in the routers memory core. Seems tplink doesn't have the courage to admit it even when staring at their own source code they built these 300 to 500 dollar routers to fail to get us to buy more routers that will fail.
Tplink is garbage. What kind of a company releases "gaming routers" to the public and I say that mockingly because your qos is using an algorithm that Cisco released under a gnu in 2003 and your routers offer no ping stabilization software, no realtime qos update protocols, no legitimate VPN capabilities and before you say oh it's got OpenVPN I say to you, really? Google your OpenVPN software and look at your results. It has massive security flaws. It's the lowest ranked vpn software available in every major category.
But forget all of that. This is how pathetic you worthless pieces of garbage truly are. Your solution to the public at large once so many people had routers that don't perform at the basic speeds you say that you had to finally admit you knew all along it was a firmware flaw on your end you idiots solution to the problem was to point to BETA firmware that will make the router last a few months more but gut every single feature you lying sacks of crap advertised as the reason we have to pay hundreds of dollars for your Chinese and Vietnam made junk. No qos, no parental controls, no firewall, no antivirus, no malware protection. Oh and lest I forget, if we really want our lan connection to work the way it should in the first place you freaking idiots literally say to shut down the wireless connection to the router because smart control has big bugs in it to that you can't get fixed.
Let me help everyone here out. Is your tplink product you ju
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As my handle says, I have an Archer C8. I have Xfinity 300 service. I get around 350 speed wired. I have three wired clients and 25 or so WIFI clients. WIFI speeds are slower depending on distance, location, interference from other WIFI, device loads, ... I rarely reboot the router and found no leakage.
I have used a new ASUS AX router and found wired speeds to be about the same but the WIFI is noticeably slower. The Asus router has better ping times 25-30 vs 50-55. Maybe I need to tweak the WIFI settings a bit.
I have used other brands of routers and have found plus and minus points with each. None are perfect for everyone. Whenever I have had Internet issues, it has been things other than my router or me playing with the settings causing issues. I still have an old Linksys ‘G’ router that still works that I saved as a backup if I ever needed it. Never needed it.
If all of the TP link routers were as bad as you state, then they would be out of business a long time ago. I am sure there have been some models that may not be as good as others. I do like TP Links forum better that what is available for Asus.
I do not like or use all of the features that all routers have nor the direction they seem to be going with cloud based settings. They all oversell the features and what they can do. Some have failed to provide a promised feature or taken away a feature when adding other features. Many offer to many products that overlap and make supporting them all that more difficult. Some are adding monthly cost features which I would not buy.
It is sort of like the car industry. Some like certain brands. Some models are winners and some are losers. Some cost more to buy yet others cost more to own and use. Many features go unused. They are adding monthly cost features.
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