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hayden_250
Feb 08, 2020Initiate
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. ...
Kobutah451
May 15, 2020Tutor
I have tried all of the tricks and not able to get beyond 440Mbps after having issues getting above 250Mbps.
Last thing to try is to reset and manually reconfigure my wifi settings.
Will update once done, but would like to keep this one open and people feeding information into it.
Notes: I have 1Gbps down/20Mbps upload internet running from a base modem.
I get 950Mbps+ when connected directly to the modem. I changed all cables to my router and removed my Gigabit switch as a test, also. I even tried a different Gigabit switch.
Only consistancy is the router.
- Kobutah451May 15, 2020Tutor
I ended up having to do a complete reset and reconfig of my router to start getting the right speeds through my ISP.
I verified through fast.com, speedtest.net, and my ISPs speed test sight. All giving me aroung 950Mbps.
- duggarJun 22, 2020Aspirant
I am having thre same problem but tried all things suggested above. but no success Can you elaborate on what wifi setting you manually configured so I can learn too.
- Kobutah451Jun 22, 2020Tutor
This issue went away after doing the most recent firmware upgrade through the automatic upgrade process.
I had called support and they were about to have me to a same version "update" of the firmware to see if there was a corruption of the current firmware. We didn't because I had done the temp fix and wasn't able to do it when I was on the phone with them.