Broadband Speed Problems

SouthernStallion · June 3, 2020

Hello LTT communit, I wonder if you can help me

I'm experiencing broadband speed dips of around 95% through my two routers, daisy chained together and I'm wondering what on earth is the bottleneck when the second router is good for 54Mb wireless signal. My service provider is Virgin Media, who deliver via fiberoptic cable to their router 100Mb/s speed. From this router exits an ethernet cable (this cable carries the full speed to anywhere in the house) which goes upstairs to a 2008 Netgear Wireless G router WGR614 v9 which according to the website can achieve 54mb wireless. At the moment, the speed is around 5Mb dropping regularly to the kbps range. I have unplugged the ethernet in and put it into my devices which shows again around 100Mb. I've taken into account interferance from the room that the devices are in, and no way is it 90-95% loss even though there is a chimeny between us. From the DSL router downstairs, the ethernet out comes from a LAN port, in the Netgear upstairs it is plugged into the "Internet". I've rebooted both and that doesn't fix it. Any suggestions?

Electronics Wizardy · June 3, 2020

Is the wired speed dropping or just wireless?

Id replace that g access point, then get a access point, you don't want 2 router.

Scrapy · June 3, 2020

I dont even think this can happen unless the second router is in bridge/extender mode but make sure the second router is in bridge/extender/access point mode. Also when i was running 2 routers i had a significant drop as well initially, i found that running the channel selection on auto was the problem as both seemed to be on same channels interfering with each other. I recommend you place the channel selection on manual for the routers and fiddle around changing the channels and testing the speeds to find which channels work best for each router in each area. Mine ended up liking 1 and 2 for the main router while using 6 and 7 for the extender (these channels don't matter because everything is relative to my situation and not yours). And if that doesn't work id just replace it like how @Electronics Wizardy said. Good luck!