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Nighthawk won't accept 1GB speeds
Nighthawk R7000 AC1900 Firmware version V1.0.9.88_10.2.88 Nighthawk is in Router Mode. I have AT&T Optic Fiber with 1GB download speed. Before I got the 1GB speed, I had the 100 Mbps which...
So I went to the manufacture of both my computers and it's comfirmed that I do have gigabyte internet card in both computers. I also made sure that my drivers were updated too.
I even checked the specs on my Xbox but all I could find was that Xbox One has 600Mbps. I have Xbox One S so it should either have 600 or more.
I think I am now done messing around with this NightHawk as it no longer puts out more than 60Mbps. It was a good router while it lasted and I have used it for many years.
I finially tracked down the problem. I had a AT&T Optic Fiber tech come to my house today.
He changed out the AT&T modem/router. The speed remained the same.
He did some calling and found out that even though I have optic fiber with speed set to 1GB, AT&T is throttling the speed down to 300Mbps. This has been going on for over 1 month now (in my area) according to the tech.
So my problem is weird.
Internet speed 230Mbps is transfered from AT&T router to Nighthawk router by ethernet.
But if I use the Nighthawk or AT&T WiFi, the speed drops down to 60Mbps (on all my devices). I am in the same room with my routers so my signal is full strength.
So the tech told me to downgrade my speed plan to either 100 or 300.