Hello! I had the Toronto-N that bit the dust, and decided to upgrade to the Newifi. We received it earlier than expected and have it running now.
Note: Our internet is admittedly abysmal, we have 5 Mbps down and 0.8 up, if it isn’t raining. (Centurylink DSL) This has been enough internet most of the time, we are able to stream video, it is just latency for gaming that can be a problem. We are hoping to be able to get FIOS in the future, and definitely have a lot of devices in the house, so were hoping mu-mimo and dual bands would help with this. As I found in the forums, I set up both bands with the same SSID and password, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to see which band devices are on through the router, only if you can check on the device itself.
Setup was fine until I started adding profiles and enabling Access Control…..and then our internet slowed to a crawl. We can get our typical speeds (on most devices) if Access Control is not enabled, or if it is simply on and set to various DNS servers, Google being the fastest. Enforcing Access Control kills the internet entirely, Adblock or SafeSearch each slow the speed by about half.
So, I currently have the access control simply pointing to Google DNS (even OpenDNS is slower), no tick boxes marked at all.
And I have a separate problem, no matter the setting, our older desktop and laptop endure amazingly slow speeds, barely 0.1 Mbps download, about about 0.4 upload. My Dell Desktop is running a Qualcomm Dell Wireless 1703 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz), and research suggests that turning off QoS may help? I am not finding a spot in the router interface to do anything with QoS or WMM. https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Slow-wifi-download-speed-solved-not-Smartbyte/td-p/7527964
Interestingly, I ran ethernet last night from the Newifi to the desktop, and at first it didn’t register at all, then was similarly very slow after a reboot got it to register. I did try wired again this morning, and it is now transmitting the proper speeds, even with Block Ads, SafeSearch, and Enforce Access Control checked. (Keeping the desktop wired is not a viable solution, there is not a good way to permanently run the cable from where we must have the router to the desktop.)
We had no trouble with the Toronto N using the full 5 Mbps of wifi with many profiles, most of them enforcing access control and using Ad block and Safe Search, locked on OpenDSN, and moderate YouTube (which I haven’t even tried with the Newifi, considering the slowdown we are already experiencing).
Of course, this may be moot, as if I can’t use the Ad blocker or have Access Control on profiles so I can monitor the sites visited, there is no benefit to having this router. Any suggestions?