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Wireless with 2.4ghz
I was told by a comcast tech today that the max speed I'm going to reach in my house is 60mbps as long as I'm using 2.4ghz and it's not connected through ethernet.... I've never heard of this and pret...
Depending upon wireless device design support, signal, noise and envrionment, thats about the range for 2.4Ghz for this model modem. Unless you have a 2.4Ghz wireless devices that supports connection rates at 600Mbps on 2.4Ghz:
AC1900 (600 Mbps @2.4GHz with 256 QAM support +1300 Mbps 5Ghz 11ac)†
Most 2.4Ghz wifi device connection rates are between 130 and 300Mbps. Which translates in to thru put speeds lower than connetion rates. You'll not see thru put speeds anywhere near these rates.
I know my D-Link DWA-192 adapter does with my C7800:
Yes my iphone and mac book only connect to 2.4Ghz around 120 and 216Mbps.
I have the netgear nighthawk ac1900 modem/router c7000v2 that says right on the box that it supports up to 600 on 2.4ghz and 1300 on 5g. My plan with comcast is for up to 600mbps. So is he just lieing to me when he says the max I can get on wifi through 2.4ghz is 60? Because I'm still in contact with them and figuring out why I'm only getting a max of 60. My modem/router is more than capable of that range and I'm paying for that range. So something isn't adding up. Once again thank you for your help
Those are link rates only. Not actual thruput speeds which differ from link rates. The link rates are the actual speed rates seen between the modem and a wireless device. See my included picture of my DWA-192 connected to my C7800. Thats just a link rate.
https://kb.netgear.com/19668/Link-Rate-and-Transfer-Speed
Speed testing bandwith will be always lower than the link rate.
Here is a sample speed test with a D-Link DWA-192 USB 3.0 wireless adapter, 3 feet between adapter and RAX, connected at 600Mpbs to a NG RAX80 router in AP mode with 2.4Ghz radio only, 40Mhz only on a 1Gb/50Mbps ISP service line:
So it is possible to get 60Mbps over 2.4Ghz, depends on configuration and hardware support. Lower Link rates will see lower thruput speed rates.
Here speed sample with same adapter connected to a R7800 with 2.4Ghz set for 300Mbps max connection rate: