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joejoe4
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Jun 14, 2020

Nighhawk AX6 AX5400 Slower than ATT provided WiFi

A couple of days ago I puchased a Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX5400 WiFi router to improve my wifi over the AT&T provieded Aris BGW210-700 modem router combo. The internet service I pay for is 1gb and with the aris router I was getting speeds of 400mb down and 100mb up on my desktop with an AX wifi card (TP-Link Archer TX3000E). For comparison with the same desktop with a ethernet cable I was getting close to 1gb up and down, I would contine to conect via ethernet but I had to change the location of my desktop and that is no longer possible. Now with this netgear router I am only getting speeds of 150mb down and 100 up. Also when I run the speed test in the nighhawk app I only see speeds of ~500mb down and 940mb up (for refrence I am using the same cable that my desktop could do 1gb each way). I could use some suggestions, because I would like to be able to achive 1gb via wifi otherwise I am just going to return this router.       

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  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru
    Jun 14, 2020
    joejoe4 wrote:

    A couple of days ago I puchased a Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX5400 WiFi router to improve my wifi over the AT&T provieded Aris BGW210-700 modem router combo.

    What is the AX5400 ? It is not a Netgear model number.

     

    If it is a Netgear router then you have put one router after another.

     

    Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.

    This explains some of the other drawbacks.

    What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support

    Unless you have specific reasons for using two routers – to create two separate networks for example – it is often easier to use just one router and then to set up the second router as a wifi access point. Netgear advises this, as does just about every site you will visit.

    It may be possible to put the modem/router into modem only (bridge) mode and then to use the second device as the router. There may be ways to get the modem/router to cooperate. Sometimes it is easier to put the second router into AP mode. But that has its own drawbacks:

    Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support

    joejoe4 wrote:

    I could use some suggestions, because I would like to be able to achive 1gb via wifi otherwise I am just going to return this router.       

    That is not going to happen.

     

    Wifi is never as fast as wired and depends on the capabilities of your unnamed wifi clients.