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New RAX29 AX2400 working but wired connections are not showing correct download speed
Installed new RAX29 AX2400 and all is working except when I do a speed test using different apps for the wired devices, they all come back barely showing over 100mbps. I pay for 200 from Verizon FIOS...
Might have found the problem:
I took my laptop and disabled the wifi and pluged it into the router and did a speed test.
Got 307mbps just like with the last two routers.
I then disconnected the Fire Stick Cat 6 cable and pluged it into the laptop.
Did a speed test and got 307mbps.
Since both tests showed the router was passing the correct speeds I can only assume it's one of two things.
1. The speed test apps used on the Fire Sticks are faulty but not likely since I unistalled them and re-installed them.
2. Something on the Fire Stick changed, possibly a update, that is preventing the Fire Stick from doing a speed test at a higher mbps.
2. The gigabyte adapters on the Firesticks are faulty. These are only a few weeks old so I am not sure how to test them and why both would crap out.
These are USB 3 adapters so I will plug them into my laptop and see if I can bypass the built in network adapter.
I can also try the USB adapter on a non Amazon streaming device and see what happens.
not sure what firestick you had exactly, but I thought their usb ports were 2.0
I wouldn't trust those tests.
good thing is though, most streaming only needs 25-40mbps for 4k content. Its why you see so many tv's/streamers with only fast ethernet and not gigabit connections.
