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Router Output Speed - Netgear N300 Wireless Router
I have internet service from Spectrum advertised at 200 mbps. I tried plugging the coax into my Netgear CM400 High Speed Cable Modem then directly into PC and did a speed test and verified this servi...
A n300 device isn't going to hit anywhere close to 200mbps over wireless. Even wired won't get that close if it only have a 10/100mbps connector as michaelkenward said. If its only a 10/100mbps connector your going to max out around that 90mbps.
Most N300 routers are only going to hit roughly 30-40mbps over 2.4ghz. The "up to 300mbps" is a very overinflated level and is an industry wide issue of overrating them.
I'd recommend reading through a review of a N300 router from netgear (or others). The WNR2000 is a fairly standard N300
NETGEAR WNR2000 Wireless-N Router Reviewed - SmallNetBuilder - Results from #3
My Router is a Netgear N300, WNR2000-100NAS. The box, for what it is worth, says Speed up to 300 mbps. The speed I am recording is with a direct cable connection between the router and the PC, NOT WIFI. Something is throttling down the speed and I am wondering what? I did choose the setting in the router for up to 300 mbps, changing it from the lowest setting which I think was up to 147 mbps. Just as a side note, I have read all the submissions from other people asking the community for help and have not seen one reply that actually provides a step by step on how to make things better and the original poster to say thank you all is now well. I am not trying to pick on volunteers, only to presenting what I see. Maybe the problem is with Netgear. I did see one person that bought something and when contacting Netgear for support they said he had the unit for 2 years when it was only about 3 months old. I know I bought a wireless usb plug in wifi unit for an old pc which totally messed up my computer and internet connection and had to pay over $100 to have Netgear walk me through fixing the problem their software created. What can one say?
MYnetGD49 wrote:
My Router is a Netgear N300, WNR2000-100NAS. The box, for what it is worth, says Speed up to 300 mbps. The speed I am recording is with a direct cable connection between the router and the PC, NOT WIFI.
You have confirmed my suspicions.
The wifi speeds, and the numbers on the box, have nothing to do with the speed of the link between the modem and the router.
The WNR2000 router comes in five different versions. The newest (V5) dates back to 2014. The original was in 2008.
The bad news is that all of the LAN and WAN specifications are 10BASE-T or 100BASE-Tx, RJ-45. That means that nothing on your local network will travel faster than 100 Mbps. It won't even manage that, as plemans says.
The modem can deliver 1000 Mbps to your router. But the router cannot accept it. No amount of fiddling around with settings will change this.
The bottom line is that nothing is "throttling down the speed". There is nothing wrong with your router, the modem in front of it, or anything else. It is just too old and slow for your internet service.
MYnetGD49 wrote:
I know I bought a wireless usb plug in wifi unit for an old pc which totally messed up my computer and internet connection and had to pay over $100 to have Netgear walk me through fixing the problem their software created. What can one say?
That is suspicious. Netgear provides free help up to 90 days for new equipment. Too many people put a search into Google and phone the first number they find. Those numbers have nothing to do with Netgear and are set up by scammers.
Just out of couriosity, would it make any sense to get a splitter and plug the service from the modem directly into the pc with one cable and the router with the other? Would that help obtain higher speeds at the computer and the same as present on wifi fed devices? Oh and I did verify that I have a Netgear N300 WNR2000v2 router.
