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UsernameGreen
Jun 17, 2021Aspirant
RAX70 Getting the high speeds to my xbox one
Hello, So I bought this router to get the fastest internet speed that I could for my Xbox One. When I test my internet speed from the app on my phone, it shows about a 475 mbps download speed wi...
plemans
Jun 17, 2021Guru - Experienced User
when you're speedtesting in the nighthawk app, its designed to test the speeds from the router to the test server. Its all hosted on the router. And its testing off a test server designed to supply peak download speeds.
when you're using your xbox, its just downloading from the xbox servers. They might have the servers setup to only let people download at a set rate. Otherwise if they said "everyone can download at gigabit speeds". Then they'd need to buy more bandwidth/throughput to supply people. Versus just setting a max speed limit.