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Slow speeds after Bridge Mode


victorbrazent
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Hello Netduma Support Team,

I recently purchased your Netduma R2 router and managed to put my ISP modem/router to bridge mode. After doing so, I noticed that I am not getting the right speeds.

Before bridging my ISP modem/router I get D = 300 U = 300 on speedtest and downloading files gave me a constant 200 mb/s download. After putting it on bridge mode I can only get D = 70 U = 80 and when I download a file it only gets a max of 100 mb download.

I have tried all the steps indicated in this article to no avail : http://support.netduma.com/support/solutions/articles/16000076586-dumaos-optimal-settings-guide-maximum-bandwidth-speeds

Am I doing something wrong? If I unbridge my ISP modem/router I get the 300 mb speed just fine. I have upgraded my firmware to the latest one which is 3.0.394.

Thanks for the help and let me know if you need screenshots of anything. I really love your router as it works for Halo Infinite I just hope I get the right amount of speeds!

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Welcome to the forum!

What's the exact make and model of your ISP router/modem?

Who is your ISP? 

Can you please go to Device Manager -> Click the three-line menu -> Switch to table view. Then take a screenshot of the top table.

After this, unbridge your modem and take a another screenshot of the Device Manager page, you may want to refresh the page.

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Hello again Liam,

Thanks for getting back to me.

My ISP is PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) and my ISP router is a GPON ONU Model: AN5506-04-FA.

I've attached screenshots as per your request here and can't seem to find any difference.

Thanks and let me know what's next. :)

Unbridge Mode.png

Bridge Mode.png

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4 minutes ago, Cloudstrxke said:

I mainly test via wifi. If I unbridge my modem the R2 connection has no internet.

Please test over ethernet and see what you get, you'd need to reboot the R2 after you take the modem out of bridge then it should get internet

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I just tested it now and it's the same as on my original post.

This is directly connected to my ISP router (unbridged)


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This is directly connected to the R2.

 

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There's some improvement but 100 mb difference in the download and a massive difference on the upload

 

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How can I DMZ my R2? I would like to try that as it's better than the original issue I have experienced.

Also, when I DMZ the R2 I can still use the full capabilities of the Geo-filtering, ping assist, etc, right?

Is DMZ safe too? What are the cons if I DMZ my R2 to my ISP router?

Thank you!

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Copy the WAN IP from the R2 System Information page, access the ISP router and enter it into the DMZ. Yes everything will still work, no downsides as the R2 firewall will keep you protected. See what the speeds are like then.

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Okay, I think that did it. My speeds are higher and more similar when directly connected to my ISP router. I've disabled the protection options too in WAN settings before I first posted.
So my question now is why are my speeds lower when on Bridge Mode? Is it because of some unknown settings with my ISP router?

Thanks for the help! Appreciate it!

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18 minutes ago, Cloudstrxke said:

Okay, I think that did it. My speeds are higher and more similar when directly connected to my ISP router. I've disabled the protection options too in WAN settings before I first posted.
So my question now is why are my speeds lower when on Bridge Mode? Is it because of some unknown settings with my ISP router?

Thanks for the help! Appreciate it!

Ah great to hear! They both have the same functionality really so there shouldn't be much difference so it's probably just due to the way they have implemented each feature.

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If you're just gaming you don't really need those speeds at all. You can leave the protections disabled so that will boost it a bit, you could try 90% for Congestion Control and see if that eliminates lag enough while keeping high speeds.

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Thanks for this once again.

Can I ask why the R2's WAN IP keeps on changing? Is there a timing of the change? It changes from 192.168.1.2 - 4 and I can't figure out when it does that exactly. I have to change the DMZ settings on my ISP router once it does that.

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To prevent that happening go on the ISP router and set the current WAN IP/the IP the ISP router gives the R2 as static/reserved then it won't change at all. Either the ISP router gets rebooted, then it will change, the R2 gets rebooted or the ISP router DHCP lease expired, renewed and gave a new IP but it you set a static/reserved one it will keep the same IP after all these scenarios.

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Ah gotcha. It's my ISP router's DHCP settings and the max lease time is only 99 hours. I do have the option to disable the router's DHCP settings but if I do that what will be the internal IPs of my devices including the R2? Do you have any idea?

Thanks!

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Okay so what you can do instead is set it as static on the R2 so go to Settings > WAN > Network then click static and enter these details:

IP - Whatever the R2 WAN IP is/what the ISP router gives the R2
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Gateway - 192.168.1.1

and hit apply, that will then ensure the R2 WAN IP stays the same. 

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Hello again,

Not sure if I need to make a different thread for this but recently Halo Infinite now "blocks" players from geo-filtering. So if you geo-filter you won't get any matches. Is there any way to solve this? I bought Netduma specifically for Halo Infinite as I get ridiculously high pings when playing multiplayer.
 

 

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