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So until recently my wifi and wired connections have been great. However upstairs I get lousy wifi. I have my own personal modem and comcast fast internet. Connection goes from modem to router and have a hub comming off of the router. They are all gigabit connections. Everything was great. I moved my asus router upstairs and set it up as a repeater. Setup my other router which is a netgear router. My tv and xbox and ps4 are wired. Neither one of them can connect. If I chose wireless it connects fine. I have all 3 connected directly to the router not the hub. My desktop is also wired to the router. Internet speed with computer is extremely slow. I unplugged my router upstairs and left it that way. Did a factory reset on netgear router. Same issue. I can connect wifi and my average speed is around 40. Could not even do speed test on my desktop. The webpage would not load. I'm going to move my asus router back downstairs and use a power line adaptor.

I'm going off if memory here since I'm at work. The tv can't connect with a wired connection. Dns shows all zeros even though it is set to auto. Xbox one can't connect forget the error message. When I use wifi connection it works fine. I want wired because its faster for netflix. Downloading games thru xbox and I don't have a Wi-Fi adaptor for my pc. Anyone have any idea what's going on ? Why wifi is faster?
 
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Stop using multiple routers like that.

ONE ROUTER PER NETWORK.

Whether you're a house, an office, or an entire department.
ONE ROUTER PER NETWORK.

You need to use Access Points, Switches, and repeaters. You can't just slap routers wherever you please.

 
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You can have multiple routers, and set them up as a switch or repeater, which basically turns it into a switch with wireless capabilities, thats how I am running my setup, this is not uncommon, you can easily expand your wireless this way and add more network ports. And businesses can use multiple routers in some configurations.

@OP It does sound like something is wrong with your config of our Asus "router" upstairs which from what I understand is connected through the hub? Are you connecting the ethernet from the Asus router to one of the LAN ports and NOT the Internet port?

Any chance you can draw a quick layout in like MS Paint of your network setup?
 
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I unplugged the router from upstairs to eliminate the link in the chain even though I set it up as a repeater. The problem is the netgear router downstairs. This problem started when I used the netgear router. The ng router is downstsirs as is my cable modem. So it goes from cable modem to netgear router and I jave some things plugged into the router. Rest of the stuff goes through the hub. This problem only started yesterday when I switched routers. I know its the ng router. All my wired connections worked fine with the asus router. I will be moving the asus back downstsirs this weekend when I have time. All devices jave the latest firmware.
 
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Im not having wifi problems. Its the wired devices downstairs plugged into the ng router. Super slow on the computer and can't connect with the tv and xbox one through ethernet. Can connect on wifi
 
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