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MR60 Mesh Router Slow Wifi Testing
Okay, the set up. Netgear Nighthawk Mesh Wifi 6 Router MR60 from Costco with two working satellites just purchased last month. Cspire fiber optic plan for 1 Gig speed. A direct line from the st...
A couple questions.
1. are the satellites hardwired in with a wired backhaul or are they using the wireless backhaul?
2. are those tested speeds over 2.4ghz or 5ghz?
3. What speeds do you get hardwired into the router?
4. What speeds do you get hardwired into the satellites?
5. what "independent" site are you testing off?
A couple questions.
1. are the satellites hardwired in with a wired backhaul or are they using the wireless backhaul?
2. are those tested speeds over 2.4ghz or 5ghz?
3. What speeds do you get hardwired into the router?
4. What speeds do you get hardwired into the satellites?
5. what "independent" site are you testing off?
This is an evolving situation at the house here. Here's what we've learned so far.
I have an older switch in my household system. A Netgear JFS524 that is only capable of 100 mbps. So all my wall outlets are limited. Possibly can get 200 mbps out of them, but not sure if that's an automatic feature or if we have to enable that, or what.
When we go upstairs and stand next to the main router in the mesh system, we get amazing speed test results. When we are downstairs by the satellites, we get 100 mpbs.
When we use my sons laptop and plug the ethernet cable from the router to his computer, blazing speeds of about 900. When we do the same with the sattelites, 100.
I can see where 2.4 and 5 are an option on the web based Netgear set up screen (the 192 IP address account access page.). Is there a way to disable the 2.4? I can see on the Nighthawk app where it is telling me what devices are hooked up to 2.4 and 5. My iPhone 11 Pro, for instance, is showing on the 5, but only getting 100 mbps when downstairs, and over 600 mbps when upstairs, near the main router, not the satellites.
As far as what are we using for testing . . . we have two brand new, top of the line computers my sons just built, so testing from them. We have downloaded apps, and using any number of web based testing sites that come up from an internet search. Also, a Playstation 5, which can test the signal it's getting. It seems like we are getting different results based on where we are standing in the mesh system, and if a wall outlet is being used or not.
Sirecks wrote:
I have an older switch in my household system. A Netgear JFS524 that is only capable of 100 mbps. So all my wall outlets are limited. Possibly can get 200 mbps out of them, but not sure if that's an automatic feature or if we have to enable that, or what.
I was going to suggest that 100 Mbps smells a bit like some "fast" (as in slow) Ethernet links in the chain. Everything at exactly 100 Mbps is suspicious. (We've seen it here before.) If it were just a client side thing I would expect some variation between different devices.
Even Netgear is guilty of still selling routers with 100 Mbps ports whereas the industry standard has been 1000 Mbps for years.
If the satellites are wired to the router over the ethernet circuit, setting them up with a wireless backhaul might improve things.
Is it just the switch that does 100 Mbps? If the cabling is up to it, dumping the JFS524 for something more modern might unblock the bottleneck.
So we thought the same thing. We disconnected the satellites from the ethernet wall cables. Turned them off completely. Read the signal straight off the main router and the signal was great.
I plugged the satellites back in, one at a time and reintroduced them back into the system. So far, all the WiFi speeds are back to a higher level, and each device is testing well higher than 100 now. 300 to 500 in some cases.
So, it seems like if I want to keep my wall outlets up to date, I need a new switch. It also seems like a simple power down and reboot of the satellites have fixed the seeming limited 100 mbps.
