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Tethered connection to the LAN ports
I recently upgraded my Xfinity bandwidth to 600Mbps and so I purchased the following: o Netgear CM700 cable modem o Netgear Nighthawk AC2300 router (R7000P) If I connect my laptop directly to t...
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thevenin57 wrote:I recently upgraded my Xfinity bandwidth to 600Mbps and so I purchased the following:
o Netgear CM700 cable modem
o Netgear Nighthawk AC2300 router (R7000P)
If I connect my laptop directly to the cable modem, I get close to 600Mbps download, but if I connect my router to the cable modem and then connect my laptop to one of the router's LAN ports, I get around 300Mbps. What is odd is if I perform a speedtest from the same laptop using the 5Ghz wifi, I get around 500Mbps.
Has anyone experienced this situation? The laptop's tethered connection to the router should outperform the wifi connection.