Is there a way to disable QOS completely?

[Spazz]

I'm assuming setting the sliders to 100/100 would do this. But before I go through the trouble of adding an Edgerouter between my WAN and the R3, I wanted to be sure. 

Performance on the R3 has been abysmal for nearly a year. Constant disconnects, wifi was so bad that I turned it off and just used an older router in AP mode over Ethernet, I randomly can't log into the OS, internet rules randomly stop working, port forwarding/upnp work when they want to, congestion control is ok at best, and my lights haven't worked since January. I'm kinda just over it and would only consider keeping the router for the geofilter at this point. 

I've tried all of the fixes suggested in the forums. Disabling this, disabling that, factory resets, unplugging for 10 minutes and replugging, newest firmware, reverting firmware, etc. It's something different nearly every day. I didn't spend $250 on a router to toy with it on a daily basis. 

[Netduma Fraser]

Have you tried the latest Early Access firmware? It should be largely resolved with that one. 

To disable fully go into SmartBOOST - Menu - Settings > Toggle Enabled off

[Spazz]

7 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Have you tried the latest Early Access firmware? It should be largely resolved with that one. 

To disable fully go into SmartBOOST - Menu - Settings > Toggle Enabled off

Yeah, my throughput and bufferbloat fell off a cliff after trying .402. I have 600/20 internet with congestion set to 75/95. I'm only getting about 180 down with upwards of 300ms of bufferbloat. I thought it was my line so I checked my modem and things were fine. Chatted with spectrum and they said things were fine. Plugged the same settings into the XR450 and got an A+. But the 450 is outdated.

[Netduma Fraser]

Are you testing the speeds on the router or speedtest.net? If applicable how have you up your ISP modem/router to ensure all traffic flows to the R3? E.g. R3 in its DMZ, modem/bridge mode. Are ALL devices connected to the R3? The 450 and the R3 have completely different hardware and software so settings that work on one won't necessarily work on the other. 

[Spazz]

I was testing on Waveform and Divina. Router test is fine so, that's weird. All devices are connected to the R3. Most are wifi devices that are connecting via the 450 in AP mode bridged via ethernet to the R3. This hasnt always been a problem. I've mostly gotten consistent bufferbloat tests up until about 3 firmware updates ago. My modem is a Netgear cm2500 so no extra ISP garbage to check for. 

[Netduma Fraser]

Just do a speedtest.net test just for speeds, what do you get? Is 600/20 the speeds you have set in the router? Also if you have speedtest bypass enabled that may impact your bufferbloat results. Are you testing the speeds of WiFi or ethernet?

[Spazz]

Always Ethernet. I'll follow up when I get off. 

[Spazz]

6 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Just do a speedtest.net test just for speeds, what do you get? Is 600/20 the speeds you have set in the router? Also if you have speedtest bypass enabled that may impact your bufferbloat results. Are you testing the speeds of WiFi or ethernet?

The problem is that the issue comes and goes. Sometimes, I get all of my speed. Sometimes, it's less than half of what I pay for. It's random. 

[Netduma Fraser]

There will be a reason for it - are you doing the tests during peak and non peak times for example with peak times being slower? Are more devices being used at the time or a download happening when it's slower?