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Nighthawk mesh wifi slow
I purchased the NETGEAR Nighthawk MK62 is a dual-band WiFi 6 mesh system. The setup was quite simple. I have one at the rear of my house to cover my bedroom and 1 downstairs to cover my kitchen, livi...
PFCMaddMann wrote:
If I connect to it via WiFi it drops to around 680mbps which is still reasonable, but disappointing to loose 1/3rd of the speed right off the bat.
That is how wifi works. Unless you have wifi clients that go faster than that, there is nothing that your router can do about it.
It might be worth a bit of background reading.
Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11 n/ac/ad/ax)
@duckware knows their stuff and can bust a few myths and cut through marketing hype.
WiFi clients that can do 1000 Mbps are rare.
Now comes the real problem, the remote units seem to cap out at around 250mbps. So even getting fantastic signal, the trade off is 3/4 of my speed.
This is from a satellite that connects to the router over wifi rather than wired?
What is the distance between router and satellite?
Then the usual boilerplate questions.
What firmware version do you have on the device?
A number is more useful than "the latest". (It may not be by the time people read this.) There can also be newer versions, or "hot fixes", that do not show up if you check for new firmware in the browser interface.
It might also help if you told people what the modem is in front of this router, if there is one. The make and model number could be useful. Is it, by any chance, also a router, with a set of LAN ports on the back?
The reason for asking is that a lot of people turn up here trying to put a router behind a modem that is also a router. That can complicate troubleshooting.