- Feb 26, 2013
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I have a Westell A90-750022 DSLModem/Router and a Netgear r6300v1 Gigabit router set up for my Home Network. Originally I had the Westell bridged to the Netgear and done most of my streaming from my NAS via my hardwired gigabit network. Only using wireless gigabit for my tablets, and printer. Everything has been working great for over a year, with no problems, untill the past couple of weeks. Then I noticed my DSL speed was running about half, when doing a speed test. Instead of 10MB dl, the best my system was doing was 4 to 5MB, and sometimes as low as 2MB I thought for sure Centurylink was limiting my bandwidth. I reset my Westell DSL modem, and hooked my pc straight up to it... Eureka.. my dl speed was back up to 10MB, both wireless and hardwired. So I hooked my Netgear router up to the Westell, this time without bridging the Westell... Hmmm my dl speed through the Netgear, is still 10MB both wireless, and hardwired from it. So undoubtely I'm now losing dl speed when I have the Westell bridged, and using the Netgear to obtain IP., When not bridged the entire network works flawlessly. So is my problem in the Westell, or the Netgear??? Sounds to me like a Netgear problem, but is it hardware, or somekind of conflict. As I said, the system worked perfectly for over a year.. Nothing had been changed. Any ideas of where I need to look to find the problem? A year ago I had a problem with the Netgear losing the DSL IP, and Netgear support had me to change the wireless settings on the Netgear. by changing the Fragmentation and CTS/RTS Threshold to 2304, and that fixed that problem. But now I'm not even sure the different problem is a Netgear issue. All I know, is, if I switch back to bridge mode, I once again lose half my dl speed, otherwise, everything works ok. Centurylink told me, they detected a noise issue on my line, but that noise issue disappeared when I took the Westell out of bridge mode. HELP!
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