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Nighthawk AC1900/R7000 Slow WiFi
Using a Netgear CM1000 modem with wired speed tests of 300Mbps. WiFi Speed Test results 22Mbps. Wired speed test results from the AC1900 router is 22Mbps ISP is Spectrum. Ookla and Fast.com used ...
2 things.
1. you're on really old firmware for the R7000. Try installing the V1.0.11.136 version manually and do a factory reset as there was quite a few changes. Leave QoS, access control, traffic monitoring, and parental controls all disabled at those speeds.
2. Make sure you're testing the 5ghz. The 22mbps can be normal for 2.4ghz (because it suffers from interference and is a slow network). But 5ghz can hit faster speeds.