PACE 11.1.0.531418 DMZ Issue

If it doesn't work in those rare cases then just reload the firmware to restore the cert then hard reset. And I am sure there are some you can buy that are defective and the seller is trying to dump it but definitely worth a try especially if you can get one cheap. Problem is so many people in the last few months have been doing this is driving up the prices. 

Thanks for the info. I got on for $35 on eBay. Claims never used. Let's see how it goes. I am running double nat now behind the PACE and my ASUS router, need to get back on DMZ at reasonable speeds with the BGW210. 

Let us know how it works out. 

It took me 3 months to find this thread, and hours and hours of support with Linksys to figure out what the issue was.  I applaud the OP and the "semi" workaround fix.  Can we please get an update on when a new patch will be applied to our modems to alleviate this issue?  

@MichaelWR90  Wrote:

Can we please get an update on when a new patch will be applied to our modems to alleviate this issue?  

The answer is Never. It is very profitable for AT&T to throttle people at 50 Mbps while they pay for 1Gbps. Most of their customers have no idea they are being throttled. The few who find out, they will simply "deal" with them: send them "whatever" to placate them, threaten to charge the customer for a Tech visit, deny the problem is theirs because... "third party" equipment. You have seen it here if you read the thread. AT&T has Zero interest in doing anything. Period.

I've hesitated to try to push for a replacement router.  I was a UVerse customer from 2003 until 2016, or maybe 2017.  Over the years, I had several router upgrades.  At one point, they made you buy your own router.  I remember paying for it in four monthly installments, if I'm not mistaken.  Long after I forgot about this, it crapped the bed, and a replacement was sent to me.  Everything was fine.  Suddenly, around 2015 or 2016, this $5/month equipment fee snuck up on me, despite the fact that I was forced several years before that to pay dearly for my router and was told that I owned it.  I went back and forth with the awful online customer service for months.  Every month, I went back and forth with various levels of customer service for an average of around 2 hours, and eventually got my credit and was promised it would not happen again.  Yeah right.

One day, I got in trouble at work when my boss noticed that it was the third time I had to take a 2+ hour lunch to go back and forth with AT&T.  That was the final straw.  I cancelled after all those years.  Then they asked for the RG to be sent back.  While happy to oblige, I did remind them that I owned it outright.  It turned out that when it was replaced, my ownership ceased.  The RG I owned was shot.  There were nice enough to provide me with a free replacement, but the replacement was theirs, not mine.  Which also explained why they kept charging the equipment fee.  When I asked for documentation, I was told that it came with the router.  When I stated that I kept all paperwork ever received from AT&T, the line went silent.  At this point, I was already done, so I just told her not to stress over it, just tell me how to send it back and I will.  So she did and I did.

Where I'm going with this is that AT&T is absolutely not to be trusted at all.  Period.  Especially when it comes to equipment being swapped out.  They can and will do whatever they want, and you will have to pay for it if they suddenly decide they want some more of your money. So I have opted to continue to pay $90/month for 50Gbps just to see how this pans out.

Thus, it seems to have "resolved" itself, at least as far as one can reasonably expect a service provider, especially this particular service provider, to "resolve" such an issue with their residential-class CPE.  It looks like they are sticking with 10.7, and that is where the hardware will die:  With 10.7 running on it.  Thus, it would seem that my best option would be to downgrade my router to 10.7, so that I'm still running my original hardware, therefore they can't start charging me any fees for it a year or two down the road.  Also, I'll be running the "current" supported firmware, so I shouldn't get any flack should I ever need support of any kind.

Just my 2c.

Edit:  For the "" around "resolved"

@wcowan86:

Sure, most people don't need, nor can they even get 1Gbps on any one device.  Add a second or third computer, along with several phones, plus some IoT for good measure, and guess what?  You just easily filled that 1Gbps pipe.  You don't see it in your five-minute averages?  Or even your 30-second averages?  Well, that's because you're looking at a five-minute average.  Or a 30-second average, for that matter.  At any given moment in time, a particular flow will utilize 100% of the 1Gbps pipe.  If it's only transmitting a a few bytes, that moment of time will be very short-lived.  I could go into great detail to explain, but trust me:  You don't want me to do that.  🙂  Regardless, the point is that 1Gbps is not a whole lot anymore.  (source:  20 years as a Sr. Network Engineer)

Also, remember that the folks in this thread are generally part of that other 10% you're talking about.  Trust us...  This problem is not with our equipment that we have behind the RG.  In all of our cases, it was working great until this particular firmware rev was pushed out.  I was personally seeing a very consistent 700Mbps down and 980Mbps up.  Then, there was the 11.1.0.531418 upgrade.  If I disable DMZPlus on my personal router, then it's around 320Mbps down and 600Mbps up.