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Nighthawk RAX80 slow WiFi
Hi, I have gigabit internet and just replaced my router with the RAX80. I updated it but somehow get just 400mbs in wired connection straight to the router. How can I fix this?
I’m sorry, I’m probably too late into this, and I may be way off base, but I was thinking....
Have you verified all your Ethernet cables are CAT5e? If any are CAT5, it’ll run at that speed, not at gigabit as per CAT5e specs.
Have you verified all your Ethernet cables are CAT5e? If any are CAT5, it’ll run at that speed, not at gigabit as per CAT5e specs.
It's pretty difficult to find old CAT5 these days. Personally I'm running CAT6 solid core to all the drops in my house (well below their rated bend limit) and CAT6 stranded to all my wired devices
Thanks for the CAT5 comments. The only cable I have access to is the one coming from the wall to the router. Cabling is run from the outside to the inside wall which was done during the home construction back in 2015. I can certainly use a cat5e+ cable from the wall to the router. But if the run from the outside(main source from the ISP) is cat5 would it make a difference if i change the cable from the wall to the router?
- You should only have coax or fiber outside. The health of that cabling can be roughly determined from the signal status page on the modem but if, on the router, you're getting the proper speeds then that's not the issue and changing your internal cabling won't make a difference.
- True, most vendors use coax TO the modern, but he’s saying he’s using Ethernet cable FROM wall to equipment. Sounds like DSL.
- Probably not, but IDK how hard it would be to replace it by using current cable to pull new one. If you do, use the best all weather cable, one rated at CAT6, but use CAT5e connectors unless current hardware support CAT6.
- BTW chances are the outside cable is probably CAT5e since the enhanced standard was created back in 1999. You can verify this, probably, if you can “see” a small portion of the cable, it will say on it.