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Kurt810
Nov 28, 2020Follower
Slow wi-fi speeds
I hav a r 6080 router. My wif speeds are really slow.,80 mbs down. i am currently geting 180 mbs down load from the baack of my modem (cm500) is there a setting in the router to speed up the wi-fi?...
antinode
Nov 28, 2020Guru
> I hav a r 6080 router. My wif speeds are really slow.,80 mbs down.
Ok.
> [...] i am currently geting 180 mbs down load from the baack of my
> modem (cm500) [...]
You seem to have the wrong router.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1711958
> [...] is there a setting in the router to speed up the wi-fi???
Your bottleneck may be your router's connection to your modem, not
its wireless-network speed.