Unwanted Cisco Bandwidth Throttling

trentlad · 25 May 2013 at 17:50

Has anyone found a solution to their Cisco router (EA4500) throttling bandwidth to wifi devices?

On my phone I literally have to disconnect for 10 seconds and reconnect to get back up to full speed! I initially started using QoS to manage priority but ended up disabling the feature after it continued to throttle high priority devices.

Any ideas? Please!!

trentlad · 26 May 2013 at 18:19

trentlad · 30 May 2013 at 01:20

Sorry, I guess it's just too techy.

bremen1874 · 30 May 2013 at 01:51

It's not too 'techy', it's just a very specific problem you have with an individual model of router and the device(s) you're connecting to it.

You haven’t provided any information that’d allow any general discussion. In the absence of someone with the exact same router, and the same problem, there isn’t much anyone could add.

You've presumably checked that the firmware is the latest, and that it isn't a known problem?

trentlad · 30 May 2013 at 02:18

I only updated to the latest firmware after making the post (Cisco revoked a rather 'snoopy' portion of their user agreement since the last time I checked), but unfortunately it's made no difference what so ever.

I assumed it would be common since I've bought three different model Cisco routers amongst family and every single one have this same issue. I've had to return one since it would disconnect all devices and require a reboot every day.

trentlad · 16 Apr 2014 at 22:15

Just to close the topic, I found a bug in my router which would prevent me from assigning port forwards. So that was a huge clue that things weren't right and I reset, flashed to an older firmware then back to the latest and couldn't find any bugs. After that I setup my phone to have top priority in the Quality of Service setting and suddenly it's working at full speed now.

So after a year of crappy WiFi reception with this (at the time) top end pricey router, it was a firmware bug after all.

oli356 · 16 Apr 2014 at 22:33

Just because it's expensive it doesn't mean there aren't bugs

Every platform has a bug somewhere lol. It's expected.
Glad you got it sorted.