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AX2400 5 Stream WiFi RAX29
So before I got this router, I was clocking in 300+Mbps using speedtest.net. When I got this Nighthawk router, using the same speedtest.net website, I'm barely clocking 80 Mbps. However, when I run a...
nds76 wrote:
When I got this Nighthawk router, using the same speedtest.net website, I'm barely clocking 80 Mbps. However, when I run a speed test on the Nighthawk app, it says I'm clocking 300+Mbps. So why the discrepancy?
If you test with the speedtest app on a mobile device, you are running the test over the wifi connection between the device and the Internet. Maybe 80 Mbps is all that your wifi client can handle.
If you use the Nighthawk app, you are measuring the speed between the modem and the Internet. The wifi connection is there simply to control the router and tell it to test the modem speed.