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Nighthawk AX8 Mesh Extender Max Download Speed
I recently bought a Nighthawk AX8 Mesh Extender to supplement my existing Nighthawk RAX80 Router. With the RAX80 router or even with a device connected to the router via WiFi, I can achieve download ...
You should be able to check the connection back to the router via the status page.
What's it show for link speed back to router? (also, link speed isn't throughput speed, just using it to check)
What device are you testing on?
Again, keep in mind the speed drop you'll get.
have you tried on multiple devices?
The link speed from the extender to the router is ~3000Mbps.
I rechecked, and I'm actually getting ~900Mbps down through a wired connection to the extender and ~400Mbps down through a wireless connection to the extender now. The slower download speed I was seeing earlier (~250Mbps) must have just been an inconsistency with my internet service.
The wireless speed still seems a little bit slow because the link speed between my laptop and the extender is supposedly 2100-2400Mbps, but I'm happy with the wired speeds I'm seeing now.
Thanks for your help!