NVG 589 (not very good)
NVG 589 (not very good router). I upgraded my Uverse service at my house in the S.F. Bay Area from 24 Mbps to the 45Mbps service. I was lucky that my 25 year old copper pairs worked well and I get my full speed and more.
However there was a dramatic decrease in web browsing performance with the new router and many unresolved DNS lookups. Also wireless performance was very poor on the NVG 589.
I called Uverse technical support and setup a service appointment. The technician was very interested in solving my problem but I don't believe that there is time available in a normal service call to trouble shoot these type of problems in depth. I would hate to be one of their techs, and have to support such a bad piece of equipment.
Fortunately there are forums like this one where I could find information on what I might do to resolve the problems on my own. As others have done I had to disable IPV6 in the 580 router to lessen the number of DNS lookup errors.
Then I had to turn off the wireless and use a Dual Band router of my own to setup a wireless bridge to the network,
The NVG 589 is handling the routing, DHCP and Firewall. I could have tried to put the 589 in a bridge mode, but this way worked and I am able to get 5 GHz wireless download speeds of 25-30 Mbps and the normal 5 Mbps upload. The 2.4 GHz speeds are of course slower but are better than those of the Motorola NVG 589 and work well with my legacy equipment.
It took a full week of my time to research the problem and implement a work around solution. I feel Motorola has dumped a real bad piece of equipment on the market.
The only positive I can provide is that I have Oceanic Time Warner cable internet at my other residence on Kauai and I had to completely dump their Motorola cable modem and provide my own cable modem to get that working at 25Mbs tops. Cable modems are even more annoying to work with the DSL.
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