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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...
Sirecks wrote:
No modem (according to the person who installed our line for CSpire it wasn't needed).
How does the Internet arrive at your place?
The MR60 is a router. This usually gets the Internet from a modem (cable or DSL) or an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) from a fibre network. Maybe that's what you have.
So my Nighthawk app shows download speeds of 600+mbps and upload speeds of 500+mbps with a ping of 30+ when tested on my iPhone 11 Pro when the phone is connected to the Wifi with full signal strength showing.
If you are using the speedtest on the Nighthawk app, your phone it may be connected to the router over wifi, but it checks the hardware speed it sees on the Internet.
If all your other tests are done with wifi, then it is down to them the speeds that they get. Are they faster when you use them on different wifi sources away from your network?
"How does the Internet arrive at your place?
The MR60 is a router. This usually gets the Internet from a modem (cable or DSL) or an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) from a fibre network. Maybe that's what you have."
I have a junction box out at the street that leads to a locked box on the side of our house, that has a wire running into the house. The end of that wire is an ethernet connection. It is plugged directly into the back of the router.
"If you are using the speedtest on the Nighthawk app, your phone it may be connected to the router over wifi, but it checks the hardware speed it sees on the Internet.
If all your other tests are done with wifi, then it is down to them the speeds that they get. Are they faster when you use them on different wifi sources away from your network?"
We kind of figred that the Nighthawk app was testing the router itself, which is why it shows over 600 mbps on the speed. But three different laptops, multiple iPads and iPods, all our phones, and two brand new, high end computer towers, all testing at 100 mbps? I have not been out of the house near another wifi signal to test that wifi signal since posting this.