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Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX5300 WiFi Router
I have the AX 5300, With Charter Internet. The Internet is pushing at one gig From Charter, but the router goes consistently from 950 mbps to 500 mbps. ish.. Up and down like a yo-yo. If anyone has an...
Model number is ET2251
And all those features that you had suggested are in have been disabled
And all those features that you had suggested are in have been disabled
For consistency, recommend you use the Ookla stand alone testing application available from the play stores. Install the program on a computer and connect the computer to your router with an Ethernet cable.
This test setup avoids any of the inconsistencies associated with testing through a web browser or over Wi-Fi. The Ookla program also keeps a good historical record of the results.
Even with the Ookla application, real world test results can vary by plus or minus 15 Mbps from test to test.
Have you tried the internal throughput test option available in the Nighthawk mobile application?
- I did here is the last set of results.
Those results are well reasonable results for wifi speed testing.
https://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/realistic-speeds-wi-fi-5-and-wi-fi-6
https://www.wiisfi.com
https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/6250056#zippy=%2Cmobile-devices-wi-fi- Those results were the ones that came from the router that is hardwired. And it’s using the same site as you suggested. So those are not Wi-Fi.
- Do you know of any self diagnostics you can do on these nighthawk routers?
