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MK62 (mr60) WAN speed not great
Hello,
I've attached the MR60 WAN port to the modem/router (homehub3000 in Canada) on a Fibe 1GB line. It's placed in the "advanced DMZ" which give the MR60 a public IP. This is great, however, the speedtest doesn't exceed 600mbps. I tried a different router which got 900MB+.
Is this an issue with the router? Should it get better speeds?
the built in speedtest isn't accurate at speeds >500mbps because it rarely picks the fastest server.
Test with a hardwired in pc/laptop and if you use the speedtest site, test different servers on there as not all can hit gigabit speeds.
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Test it with qos, access control, parental controls, and traffic monitoring all disabled. If there were enabled,disable them and reboot the router.
Thanks for the suggestion. The only thing I had turned on was Traffic Meter. I turned it off but still got 600mbps download.
The mesh router I compared it with was TPLink M5, which had a slower wifi speed but higher ethernet speed.
how are you testing speed?
Are you using the built in nighthawk speedtest? or what device and testing suite are you using?