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RAX120 slow wireless download speed (24Mbps) with High Internet Speed (325Mbps)
On Xfinity Internet Service. Using a Netgear CM1200 cable modem Nighthawk RAX120 Using Nighthawk App, Wired and Wireless connections Nighthawk App reports 326Mbps; Speedtest.Net app on wired co...
New Router:
Won't connect directly to cable modem and get Internet (will work on this later).
But set up as in bridge mode, cabled to RAX120 ethernet Port
So: Computer->New Modem Wireless -> cabled to RAX120 Ethernet
Speedtest (Mbps): 47.85, 244.57, 58.21, 52.83
Reconnect to RAX120 wireless
Speedtest: 19.08, 15.25, 16.76, 24.87
BTW, Upload speeds are consistently higher via new wireless router in bridge mode than connecting to wireless RAX120.
New Router: 21-35Mbps
RAX120: 11-21Mbps
I am making progress. I kept thinking "what could be the reason to throttle bandwidth?"
a) Wireless signal quality - nope, hardwire connection is similarly throttled though a higher speed
b) Wireless client capability - nope, multiple clients behave exactly the same, different router provided higher speeds
c) QOS - should be NOPE, because it's turned off, but I am suspecting this is not true. (and maybe QOS has a different setting for hardwired connection which would account for the increased but not full speed access).
I turned QOS back on and removed all rules, then added rules for specific mac addresses to make them Highest priority. Suddenly those computers have access to the full >300Mbps of my ISP connection.
In general, the admin area of QOS rules list is, at best, beta quality. You can't edit a rule, though it looks like you can. But editing a rule results in a duplicate rule and if focused on Mac Addressed, it won't let you edit/add a rule for a mac address that already has a rule. Deleting the rule causes the list of Mac Address devices to include two devices for the same Mac Address. It's all very confusing and clearly not working correctly. See attached image as an example when trying to create a QOS rule for a mac addresss.
I'm going to continue to see if setting these rules and then turning QOS back off keeps highbandwidth - in which case QOS on/off switch isn't working correctly.