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Download speed capped on Nighthawk R7000?
My ISP speed is 1000 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up My modem is in Bridge-mode My router is the Nighthawk R7000 QoS on the R7000 is disabled I have 2 PC's connected via a cable When I connect PC1 ...
Reinder wrote:My ISP speed is 1000 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up
My modem is in Bridge-mode
My router is the Nighthawk R7000
QoS on the R7000 is disabled
I have 2 PC's connected via a cable
When I connect PC1 directly to my modem the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC1 to my R7000 the download speed is 680 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC2 to my R7000 the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
So what is happening here?
I can not find a setting on my R7000 that is able to cap speeds on specific devices. But it seems to be capping the speed in my PC1 and not on PC2.
In the advanced setting on the R7000 I can see the connected devices but I can not see their down and up speeds. The help function says I should be able to see them.
Can somebody help?
You need to be looking at the settings/drivers on PC1. If you are running Windows 10/11, look at the network profile. Should be set to private for a home network. Are the Ethernet port drivers up to date?
Yes, Windows 11 is set to home network and yes the ethernet drivers are up to date.
The fact that PC1 is able to achieve the download speeds of 1000 Mbps when directly connected to the modem shows that the problem can not be in PC1 solely, but has to be some combination of factors in the settings between PC1 and the R7000.