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doane2u
Aug 23, 2016Aspirant
C6300 Weak/Slow Wifi and wierd Gateway?
My iPhone 6 and the renters down stairs show very weak signals, down stairs it's often times hard to get a signal at all. It is never above the second signal strength dot on the iPhone, even when rig...
DarrenM
Aug 25, 2016Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Hello doane2u
Have you tried to set the wireless channel to a signal channel rather than using auto?
DarrenM
doane2u
Aug 25, 2016Aspirant
I changed the channel for Netgear21 from auto to channel 10 and it did improve the upload speed considerably, from 26Mbs to 42.5Mbs . How do you tell which channel to select though, and isn't auto supposed to select the right channel? Still a lot slower then my cable connected computer that gets 120Mbs though.
Netgear5g is set to channel 153 with four other channels shown as current. I tested it and I get even worse results, 14.5Mbs down and 5.6Mbs up.. I thought it was supposed to be a lot faster?
Also, I'm still concerend about the default gateway description, is that normal to have that first line I showed above?
Thanks,
- DarrenMAug 25, 2016Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Hello doane2u
We have a wifi android app called Netgear Wifi analytics that will help find the best possible channels to use as for IOS you will have to look for one. The default gateway looks to be the Mac address of the modem.
DarrenM
- doane2uAug 26, 2016Aspirant
Thanks, Darren, I took a look at the webpage on it and it looks ideal... unfortunately, it won't work with my iPhone or iPad and the Neatgear NetGenie I have that does work doesn't have a lot of those cool features