Netduma Fraser

I can say with 99.9% certainty that its peak time congestion, the more subscribers they have in one area the worse it will be. There isn't much you can do really as its on their side. Switching to an ISP that is less popular in your area would likely improve it but if you're in quite a built up area you may have the same issue.

What is the model of the modem/router the R3 is connected to and how have you set that to ensure all traffic flows to the R3? E.g R3 in its DMZ, modem/bridge mode Do you have an Open NAT? Disable Geo-Latency in Geo-Filter settings and it will stick to your radius.

So you still experience the issue with the Geo-Filter fully disabled?

For all devices or specific? If you split the bands can you connect to them both then?

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It does have WPS yes but it's not 100% reliable so if you can connect it in the way I mentioned it's more likely to work. If the ONT accepts ethernet and doesn't need the ISP router it'll work

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I don't know the technical specifics but I believe it does utilize it to an extent

No there isn't a schedule restart function but it has been requested a few times and likely to be included in the future.

Thanks for providing a solution!

That's expected through OpenVPN due to hardware limitations, switch to Wireguard and that will get you 100Mbps. Otherwise use HybridVPN to apply the VPN only to specific services/applications you want behind it and then the rest of your device can use your full speeds.

Can you provide a screenshot of the full Geo-Filter page showing what you see when this happens please?

If your ONT accepts an ethernet connection and doesn't require your ISP router to be used then that should be fine If your extender is able to select the WiFi it wants to connect to then yes it will work

Did you disable the Geo-Filter and check that way? We don't know what your physical setup is to determine why that might of worked, if you provide us with some more information about this we can advise

It does fluctuate a little then, best to experiment with/without and see what works best for you, there is no right answer