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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
cybernigel's avatar
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