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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 ...
michaelkenward schreef:
Reinder wrote: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.
As Kitsap says, start with PC1. The R7000 doesn't care what you connect to it.
A bit more detail might help. Are both PCs on the same version of Windows? Do they have the same ethernet hardware?
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.
- Advanced Home
- Internet Port
- Show Statistics
Or http://routerlogin.com/RST_statistics.htm
Disclaimer: Just another user with time on their hands.
PC2 is much older than PC1 and cannot even run Windows 11. They both are Dell PC's. So one would expect PC2 to perform worse than PC1. It also shows that the problem cannot be the router itself because PC2 reaches speeds much faster than PC1 while connected to the R7000.
The statistics page I had found, but it only shows the speeds of the 4 LAN ports:
| Poort | Status | TxPkts | RxPkts | Botsingen | Tx B/s | Rx B/s | Actieve tijd |
| WAN | 1000M/Volledig | 41689697 | 104362462 | 0 | 783 | 7289 | 4 Dagen 02:58:33 |
| LAN1 | 1000M/Volledig | 2416739 | 2581577 | 0 | 5115 | 726 | 00:18:18 |
| LAN2 | 1000M/Volledig | 4 Dagen 17:54:11 | |||||
| LAN3 | 1000M/Volledig | 4 Dagen 17:54:30 | |||||
| LAN4 | 100M/Volledig | 2 Dagen 18:59:56 | |||||
| 2.4G WLAN b/g/n | 600M | 1519681 | 537978 | 0 | 1275 | 351 | 4 Dagen 18:34:15 |
| 5G WLAN a/n | 1300M |
So PC1 is on LAN1 and I tried PC2 on LAN1 as well and they gave the different results. LAN 4 is my raspberry Pi which is slow.
I was looking for the statistics on connected devices:
| Toegestaan | Bekabeld |
| 192.168.1.9 |
The help function says that is should also show internet download speed per device and internet upload speed per device (when you click help down below on the page). But it does not.
Reinder wrote:
PC2 is much older than PC1 and cannot even run Windows 11. They both are Dell PC's. So one would expect PC2 to perform worse than PC1. It also shows that the problem cannot be the router itself because PC2 reaches speeds much faster than PC1 while connected to the R7000.
Your conclusions are faulty for several reasons. Two different PC's with designs for different operating systems. The motherboards are different, the chipsets are different, and possibly the Ethernet port chipsets are from a different vendor with different memory buffers and different drivers. The security features of a new operating system and a new computer may or may not come with a performance cost when compared to an older machine.
You are borderline nit picking. The throughput differences between 1000 and 680 would be difficult to perceive during normal operation and show up only during a test evolution.
Kitsap schreef:
Reinder wrote:
PC2 is much older than PC1 and cannot even run Windows 11. They both are Dell PC's. So one would expect PC2 to perform worse than PC1. It also shows that the problem cannot be the router itself because PC2 reaches speeds much faster than PC1 while connected to the R7000.Your conclusions are faulty for several reasons. Two different PC's with designs for different operating systems. The motherboards are different, the chipsets are different, and possibly the Ethernet port chipsets are from a different vendor with different memory buffers and different drivers. The security features of a new operating system and a new computer may or may not come with a performance cost when compared to an older machine.
You are borderline nit picking. The throughput differences between 1000 and 680 would be difficult to perceive during normal operation and show up only during a test evolution.
In no way did you address the fact that PC1 is very capable of handling the speed when directly connected to the modem.
And calling this nit picking is not helping either. It's not a problem if you have no clue why this is happening, I haven't as well, that's why I came here.
Reinder wrote:In no way did you address the fact that PC1 is very capable of handling the speed when directly connected to the modem.
And calling this nit picking is not helping either. It's not a problem if you have no clue why this is happening, I haven't as well, that's why I came here.
You have not provided the name brand and model number of your modem. Different modem manufacturers have different definitions for the term "bridge mode". Some handle direct connections to the ISP in different manners.
I agree with FURRYe38, you have a PC problem, not a router problem.