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Fast speed in from modem, much slower speed to computers
I did a speedtest at router website and got over 200 Mbps, but my computers clock less than 100. I tried 3 different computers all connected via ethernet and all come out around the same 80mbps. I...
Well the WNDR3400 only has 10/100Mbps ports, (It is NOT Gigabit capable on Ethernet) so that definitely explains that one
With the R7800, be sure that you have good quality Ethernet cables - minimum Cat 6 between modem and router and router and each of your local network devices.
The local devices all have to be equipped with Gigabit Adapters of course
(but I presume you are using at least one of your same devices to check speed directly from Modem as well as via the router?)
The colour of the LED at the LAN Port on the R7800 will indicate what quality of connection it is seeing
White is Gigabit (1000) while Amber indicates a 100 or 10 Mbps connection.
So that is first step - if you do NOT have a white LED, then your connection is not Gigabit enabled (so you would have to check your cable and your connected device)
The WNDR manual says "Up to 300 Mbps for 5GHz and up to 145 Mbps for 2.4GHzb" Wireless speeds are the same, or slightly faster around 90mbps on two different 5g devices. An LG 7q thin and a windows 10 laptop less than a year old.
> The WNDR manual says "Up to 300 Mbps for 5GHz and up to 145 Mbps for
> 2.4GHzb" [...]_Which_ "The WNDR manual"? (By the way, is that a WNDR3400[v1],
WNDR3400v2 or WNDR3400v3?)You do understand the meaning of "Up to", right?
Let's imagine that the marketing fiction were actually true, and that
you actually could get a speed like 300Mb/s between some real-world
wireless client device and the WNDR3400. Then what? All the Ethernet
ports on the WNDR3400 are limited to 100Mb/s. "A chain is only as
strong as its weakest link" is true here, too.