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Ashercash
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Oct 22, 2022

NETGEAR AC1900 Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter terrible speeds

I have been getting terrible speeds with my NetGear A7000. With the NetGear A7000 Genie, it shows I have an average of 200 Mbps but when I download something I can barely get 1 Mbps download speed. W...
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michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 24, 2022
Ashercash wrote:

I have been getting terrible speeds with my NetGear A7000. With the NetGear A7000 Genie, it shows I have an average of 200 Mbps but when I download something I can barely get 1 Mbps download speed.

Try removing the genie.

 

You may even get by without the Netgear drivers. Some USB adapters happily work with the native drivers in Windows.