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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. ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just increased to gigabit wifi and the speed is verified at the modem but speed tests on everything show around 150Mbps. The router speed test shows 300-400Mbps turned of Qos seting also did a reset of the modem to factory. New firmware and the trafic meter is off. I have a cat 6 cable connected and everything is new in the past year. Netgear support wanted $90 to talk to me and was going to do a hard reset but everything else they said to do I had already tried. The internet is charter spectrum. Have done everything I can think of but am getting nowhere near speed I should be. I have verifid link speed wireless and the speed tests over wifi arent even 1/3 that number. My network has trafic so after the factory reset I left the default Network name so NOTHING was connected and tried again and still saw around 100Mbps wireless on 1 device capable of 242Mbps and 345Mbps at the router via speed test in router settings. The bottleneck seems to be between modem and router. I could use some help. I realize the wifi trafic slows things down but when I had 200Mbps service I could get 200Mbps at the router now with 940 I only get 345. I already did everything on every thread I found but am unsure how to roll back firmware. My next plan is to take the free router from charter and see if it helps.