tsluder Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 I recently bought the R2 and am finding the wifi speeds to be almost unusable. My old $50 router loads pages instantly, while the R2 wifi is taking 10-20 seconds to load the same pages. I've updated the firmware to the latest version, and I'm equal distance from both routers when loading the pages. Is there anything I can do to fix the speeds? My internet is 500 download and the issue doesn't exist with other, less expensive routers. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfie Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 What are your WiFi settings? if mirror is on, turn it off and then check both channels independently. set 20Mhz for 2.4 and 80Mhz for 5Ghz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2021 Hey, welcome to the forum! Sorry to hear you're having this issue. We are working on improving the WiFi at the moment, we're not happy with the speeds/stability of it currently. Are you using mirror mode? Are you using QoS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsluder Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 8 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said: Hey, welcome to the forum! Sorry to hear you're having this issue. We are working on improving the WiFi at the moment, we're not happy with the speeds/stability of it currently. Are you using mirror mode? Are you using QoS? 8 minutes ago, Newfie said: What are your WiFi settings? if mirror is on, turn it off and then check both channels independently. set 20Mhz for 2.4 and 80Mhz for 5Ghz. Thank you both for the quick replies. I was indeed in mirror mode, I've turned it off and placed the settings Newfie recommended. The load speeds have drastically increased and certainly make the wifi viable on the R2. Fraser - I haven't played around with QoS too much, so everything is just distributed as normal. Do you have any recommended settings to try? Can I take everything off VoIP and VPN since I don't use them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsluder Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 7 minutes ago, tsluder said: Thank you both for the quick replies. I was indeed in mirror mode, I've turned it off and placed the settings Newfie recommended. The load speeds have drastically increased and certainly make the wifi viable on the R2. Fraser - I haven't played around with QoS too much, so everything is just distributed as normal. Do you have any recommended settings to try? Can I take everything off VoIP and VPN since I don't use them? So I'm actually have an issue when I turn off mirroring and apply the settings where the router drops the connection, reconnects, but doesn't take the changes. I rebooted but still getting the same issue where it reverts back to the mirroring settings. I've tried this process a few times with no luck. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfie Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 What firmware version are you on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsluder Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Newfie said: What firmware version are you on? 3.0.179 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfie Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Normally I would reset after an update. you could try turning off the router, let it boot back up then go to WiFi, turn it off, then turn off mirror and press apply. If it sticks then turn on WiFi. Fraser might know another way as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 hour ago, tsluder said: Thank you both for the quick replies. I was indeed in mirror mode, I've turned it off and placed the settings Newfie recommended. The load speeds have drastically increased and certainly make the wifi viable on the R2. Fraser - I haven't played around with QoS too much, so everything is just distributed as normal. Do you have any recommended settings to try? Can I take everything off VoIP and VPN since I don't use them? 54 minutes ago, tsluder said: So I'm actually have an issue when I turn off mirroring and apply the settings where the router drops the connection, reconnects, but doesn't take the changes. I rebooted but still getting the same issue where it reverts back to the mirroring settings. I've tried this process a few times with no luck. Any suggestions? For QoS you can leave it all at default, it won't take bandwidth away for VOIP etc. Turn off mirroring, change the names of the WiFi and the widths etc first then save it, then reboot and it should apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsluder Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 20 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said: For QoS you can leave it all at default, it won't take bandwidth away for VOIP etc. Turn off mirroring, change the names of the WiFi and the widths etc first then save it, then reboot and it should apply. Changing the names has appeared to be the winning solution. Wifi using the 5GHz has increased significantly. Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2021 Great to hear that and glad it has improved. As I mentioned we are working on improving the WiFi currently so hopefully it will only get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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