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Nighthawk X6 R8000 not getting gigabit speeds
Hi so I recently got a nighthawk router because i was upgrading my internet to gigabit speeds and I wanted to get the best experience for it but i havent been able to get close to 1 gigabite speeds. ...
But how come wifi im not even getting 300Mbps when im in the same room as my router? the box is advertised that i should be getting wifi speeds of 1Gb
I am actually having the same issue but just with different numbers. Same model router. My internet speed at the modem is right about 400 but my wireless speed only gets up to between 180 and 220 at best. I've let it do the smart connect, which did seem to help a little bit and also got a cat 6 cable between the modem and router. I know a lot of you are probably going to think, well it's wifi.. he'd get the 400 if he was plugged right in... the device I use to test my speeds is my iPhone XR. Before I swapped the router, I could regularly get 350-400. Swap the router and now that same device can only get 220 max. It appears something is throttling the speed here. I am throughly shocked that a $250 router is underperforming like this. I'm about to give up on it too... hopefully there's a solution for this.
Edit: Should probably mention I have seen some wireless devices, like my PS4 which is sitting almost right next to it, drop the wireless connection all together for a second or 2. long enough for the PS4 to report the loss in connection.