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cybernigel's avatar
cybernigel
Aspirant
Dec 11, 2017

Slow Wireless / Fast Wired

For my AC1600 (model C6250) speed test with ethernet cable is 120Mbps down, but with 2.4Ghz wireless from 5 feet away it is only 20Mbps. Any suggestions?  
Troubleshooting
DarrenM's avatar
DarrenM
Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Dec 14, 2017

Hello cybernigel

 

Have you tried to adjust the wireless channel on the 2.4ghz?

 

DarrenM

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    cybernigel
    Aspirant
    Dec 17, 2017

    Hi David,

    I appreciate the reply. What specific adjustments to the 2.4Ghz channel are you suggesting?

    Thank you

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        cybernigel
        Aspirant
        Dec 18, 2017

        Hi Darren,

        I appreciate the reply and helpful KB article. I will try using a channel analyzer, but I did some brute force troubleshooting last night and tried each of the available 11 channels and ran speedtest.net against them. On the best channel I was still only getting ~30Mbps down while with a wired connection I'm well over 100Mbps down. I performed these tests about 5 feet away from the router and the R6250 does not have any adjustable attennas.  Any other suggestions?

        Thanks a lot