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    Hi everyone.

    I have bought an NR7101 few weeks ago as a replacement for a Tenda 5G03. Unfortunately the results are quite disappointing and I can't figure out what's wrong.

    Today I've collected some data that I would like to share with you, hoping to get better speeds with this router.

    I live in Italy and I have a Wind SIM inside the router. My house 300m from the BTS which I can clearly see from my roof and as you can see from the photo, the router is pointed directly towards it.

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    My bands look good and I can connect to all the available ones on that BTS:

    LTE 20, 7, 1

    5G 3

    The signal strength is obviously great:

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    So far so good but here it's starting to get weird.

    Using the sim within my iPhone, from the roof, pointing towards the BTS, these are the speeds I can get. This is basically the top speed available on the BTS with Wind:

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    iOS field test confirms I'm getting the same bands connected with the NR7101.

    With the NR7101 I can't get my download speeed over 90Mbps and upload speed over 50Mbps.

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    With my previous indoor router Tenda 5G03 I could easily get speeds around 160-180Mbps, I can't understand why the NR7101 which should be much more powerful and installed in a much better position provides such bad results.

    Last piece of information, this is the firmware and modem FW I'm using.

    Current Firmware Version: 1.00(ABUV.8)C0

    Current LTE Module Version: RG502QEAAAR13A02M4G

    I hope someone could help me.

    Thank you

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    • Posts: 373  Master Member
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      Answer ✓
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      Your LAN speed is?

    • Posts: 5
      First Comment
      edited January 2024 Answer ✓

      Well, now I feel dumb…

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      But I can't understand why is that, I am connected to the router directly with my laptop which is equipped with a gigabit eth adapter:

      https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/82186/intel-ethernet-connection-i219v/specifications.html

      Using the original POE adapter included into the NR7101 box. Is there a way I can force the gigabit LAN on the router settings?

      Thanks again.

    • Posts: 373  Master Member
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      edited January 2024 Answer ✓

      I had the same on my connection from the beginning.

      It was due to a bad ethernet cable between the modem and the adapter.


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    • Posts: 373  Master Member
      5 Answers First Comment Friend Collector Third Anniversary
      edited January 2024

      • 1. Uncheck B20 and check speedtest.
      • 2. Select only 4G and re add B20 and check speedtest again.
    • Posts: 5
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      Thanks Selberg. Here's the result. Pretty much unvaried…

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    • Posts: 373  Master Member
      5 Answers First Comment Friend Collector Third Anniversary
      Answer ✓
      Screenshot_20240120_193001_Chrome.jpg

      Your LAN speed is?

    • Posts: 5
      First Comment
      edited January 2024 Answer ✓

      Well, now I feel dumb…

      image.png

      But I can't understand why is that, I am connected to the router directly with my laptop which is equipped with a gigabit eth adapter:

      https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/82186/intel-ethernet-connection-i219v/specifications.html

      Using the original POE adapter included into the NR7101 box. Is there a way I can force the gigabit LAN on the router settings?

      Thanks again.

    • Posts: 373  Master Member
      5 Answers First Comment Friend Collector Third Anniversary
      edited January 2024 Answer ✓

      I had the same on my connection from the beginning.

      It was due to a bad ethernet cable between the modem and the adapter.


    • Posts: 5
      First Comment

      Thank you Selberg, I will try to change the cable in the next few days as that will be a tricky job :(

      This was helpful thanks!

    • Posts: 373  Master Member
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      edited January 2024
    • Posts: 373  Master Member
      5 Answers First Comment Friend Collector Third Anniversary

      My suggestion is that you take down your modem and connect a short ethernet cable to see if it changes to 1000m/full before you change the cable.

    • Posts: 5
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      Replaced the cable with a CAT7 external cable. That is more like it.

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      Thank you for your valuable help!

      I believe we can close the issue :)

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