NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Slow Wired Speed to internet vs. Wireless Wireless better performance than wired?
Strangest behavior that is consistent and reproducible. Poor speed to internet via wired devices, great via wireless.
Raxe500 router with CM2000 modem. Subscription internet speed is 1.5Gb/40mb.
Connected to RAXe on 2.5 GB port.
Speedtests both locally to NAS using opentest and librespeed. Speedtest to internet using speedtest.com and speedtest.xfinitity
Tested wirelessly from AX211 and AX411 adapters on 6ghz.
Tested various desktops and laptops connected via lan port on router all with 1gb adapters. NAS is connected wired to LAN (port aggregated 2000mb) to a Netgear switch but given performance is great on LAN, that should not be considered an issue. All LAN to internet test were connected directly through router ports.
Results using identical test parameters:
Wireless to Internet = 1.4gbps/45mbps
Wireless to NAS which is 1gb connected = 999mbps/999mbps
The above is exactly what I expect and great performance. I get this consistently.
This is where it is weird, and I see this on multiple wired systems I test. (and no QoS enabled)
Wired to Internet = 600-700mbps/45mbps
Wired to NAS (1gb connection) = 999mbps/999mbps
Why am I consistently getting poorer connection speed to internet on wired devices? Clearly not a traffic issue as I get the expected ~1gb locally. I have done this test numerous times and always to make sure there is limited traffic on the network. Any thoughts??
1 Reply
Make sure you're not using any QoS, traffic monitoring, access controls, or parental controls on the RAXE. Also disable armor if you're using it.
What firmware is on the router?
(also, doubtful you're NAS is hitting 999mbps. While ethernet doesn't have as much overhead as wireless, it still has some and tends to max out around that 940-950mbps)
If you test speeds directly off the modem with your pc, what speeds do you get?
