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gmercer9
Aspirant
Dec 10, 2021

Wifi Speed Slow

I have Cox gigablast going into a Netgear CM1000 cable modem.  This is connected to an Orbi AX6000 (RBK852).  The Orbi app shows near 1 gig speed but when running a speed test on my iPhone while stan...
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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 10, 2021
gmercer9 wrote:

I have Cox gigablast going into a Netgear CM1000 cable modem.  This is connected to an Orbi AX6000 (RBK852).  The Orbi app shows near 1 gig speed but when running a speed test on my iPhone while standing next to the Orbi router I'm only getting throughput in the 300-350 range, which seems extremely slow.

It is impossible for most WiFi devices to reach anything near gigabit speed.

Even though the app is running on a WiFi device, it is actually reporting a test that was run on the router itself.