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RAX45 Slow Wired and WiFi Speeds
Hello, I tried posting this question a few minutes ago, but it came out as all one long paragraph which is awful. Here is my attempt at a redo. Hello, I recently bought the RAX45 Nighthawk route...
I initially tried to change all the settings to what you recommended. Given that the settings are in multiple menus, all I actulaly changed were
"Enable OFDMA" for both 2.4 and 5GHz. I now have the max speed I had before.
I just picked up this router from Costco as well. I had just upgraded my bandwidth to 400+ with Spectrum. I've been having issues with consistent wifi speeds with their provided wifi router... so I tried an Eeros system and although the range and coverage was better, the wifi speed was consistent but far lower than desired... so I picked up this router and so far the Netgear appears to be the worst option.
The wired connection to my desktop is testing at only about 230Mbps on the RA45... plugged directly to the modem, it was getting speeds of like 460Mbps. A wired connection to 1 of the Eero APs provided a similar speed. The Netgear Speedtest to test the Internet bandwidth shows 460Mpbs... so something is slowing it down.
Qos and traffic meter are both disabled.
Hello matt131 & AlleninLA,
As you recently purchased the device, I would recommend contacting our support team to look into this further for you both. You may contact our support team by registering your device using the link below.
https://www.netgear.com/support/default.aspx
Christian