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• September 29, 2025 at 9:13 pm #6957
  Rocket88

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  I have 500mbps fios fiber internet service. Replacing my Verizon router with the Newifi drops my speed significantly. By 100-200 mbps per second. This is measured on the LAN VLAN.

  I had pre-configured the unit behind the Verizon router. Then installed yesterday and all members of the family noticed a decline in performance.

  I discontinued access control, bandwidth monitoring and custom DNS and that seemed to make no difference.

  A couple months back when I first looked into getting this unit I asked for come comparison between the different units. From what I gathered at that time was that as long as I am not using VPN (no plans to do so at this time) this router should be adequate.

  When I first go it about 3 weeks ago (used) I installed the recently released software, so that is current.

  I guess my next step is to restore defaults and then test speed in that default state? The upload my stored settings and cross my fingers.

  Any comments on whether this unit is suitable for 500 mbps internet service?

  Thanks

  September 30, 2025 at 9:22 pm #6976
  support

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  What are the speeds over Ethernet, 5GHz Wifi and 2.4GHz Wifi? Enforced Access Control will have an impact on speed but other settings do not.

  September 30, 2025 at 11:43 pm #6977
  Rocket88

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  Ooops, sorry. All speed tests were with ethernet. My test computer is a Macbook pro with built in 1000Base-T Ethernet port. All tests were performed several times with to different speed test sites.

  Testing with the ONT connected directly to the computer worked very poorly, perhaps that’s a clue.

  Connecting the D2 to the ONT gave significantly slower results than connecting the Verizon router to the ONT.

  Here is information on the Verizon router (I can send screenshots if you wish):

  Broadband IPv4
  Status
  Connected
  IPv4 address is from:
  DHCP
  IPv4 address
  71.163.37.101
  Subnet Mask
  255.255.255.0
  IPv4 Default Gateway
  71.163.37.1
  IPv4 DNS Address 1
  71.252.0.12
  IPv4 DNS Address 2
  71.242.0.12
  NATs Supported (used / max)
  128 / 30000
  Broadband IPv6
  Status
  Connected
  IPv6 address is from:
  DHCPv6-PD
  Delegated Prefix
  2600:4040:276b:6700::/56
  IPv6 Address
  2600:4040:276b:67ff::1/56
  Link-Local Address
  fe80::7a67:eff:feb7:8e2b
  IPv6 Default Gateway
  fe80::fac0:1ff:fe73:d7c2
  IPv6 DNS Address 1
  IPv6 DNS Address 2
  Router
  Firmware Version
  3.6.0.2_BD
  Hardware Version
  0.0.A
  Model Name
  CR1000A
  Serial Number
  ABV24705456
  LAN IPv4 Address
  192.168.1.1
  Broadband MAC address
  78:67:0E:B7:8E:2B
  Broadband Physical Connection
  Ethernet

  Before disconnecting I did turn of access control and DOH and saw no significant change. By then the 13 year old was going ballistic and the wife was none to happy either (neither of them even understand my concern about security).

  Not sure what Enforced access control means (I will do some searching these forums). I have not enabled remote administration and have been doing all admininstration via ethernet on the same computer used for the testing.

  My pre-testing and configuration was behind the VZ router so I was not too concerned about speed as it was two routers daisy chained.

  I am not too concerned about WiFi speed as I will be using a couple of access points to extend the Guest network to the upstairs and basement. Ideally I will buy another pcWRT device so I can extended the LAN network and IOT networks too, but for now I only own this one, so I only extended the network that the 13 year old uses (she’s the biggest security risk other than the IOT stuff).

  October 1, 2025 at 12:36 am #6978
  Rocket88

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  OK, I just logged into the currently disconnected router.
  As I had remembered access control was off.
  I turned it on and I see that “enforce access control” was checked. I also see the two sites I had entered as black lists were still there, so I infer that turning off access control did not change the setting I had previously set.

  So, perhaps turning access control for some reason failed to turn it off (maybe till a reboot). If so turning off “enforce access control” may be a solution.

  So far I have avoided profiles and for simplicity would prefer not to do so. But maybe I need to and only block profiles that are poorly behaved?

  I don’t understand exactly what that checkbox does. During my test period I did initially find several devices reaching out to places for no good reason (for example samsung printer was constantly communicating with “myprinterison.com” so I did create a black list (currently only 2 items in it.

  If there was a complete manual I would read it cover-to-cover. I do try to search these forums, but that’s not always a good way to find background.
  I will wait to hear your comments and will then reconnect it next time no one is at home, and try with and without that checkbox. If that solves the speed problem I will need to know more about what it does (I am going to do some searches on that now).

  Thanks for the help.

  October 1, 2025 at 1:31 am #6980
  support

  Keymaster

  To get a baseline, start with Access Control completely disabled. Compare the speeds of connecting the pcWRT directly to the ONT and pcWRT to Verizon router to ONT.

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