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PGalore
Aspirant
Dec 12, 2022
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RAXE500 Speed within Nighthawk app much faster

I'm on 1000Mbps plan and when I run the speedtest within Netgear Nighthawk app on my iPhone that's connected to 5Ghz wifi, I get 930Mpbs down and 47 up w/ 7.0 ms ping.     However, when I run the s...
  • Razor512's avatar
    Razor512
    Dec 16, 2022

    The speed test function in the nighthawk app will often use the router itself as the client device, thus you are measuring the speed of the WAN connection to the router, and not the speed of the connection to your smartphone or other devices behind the router.