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R7000 wired speed as expected, but Nighthawk/Genie speed test is about half
I recently upgraded my Comcast internet to gigabit speeds and upgraded my modem to the Arris SB8200 to support the speed increase. When hardwired to my R7000, I'm getting the expected ~950Mbps d...
Attached is photo of the iPhone Nighthawk app speedtest
and here is the photo of the hardwire-to-router speedtest. If my understanding of the built-in Genie/Nighthawk speedtest is correct, then the Genie/Nighthawk built-in speed test should perform the same as the hardwire-to-router speedtest since they are supposed to both be testing the speed from the router to the internet.
some of the speedtest sites/servers can't saturate gigabit. In my area, I've had speedtest fail to saturate my connection. If I test with speedtest.xfinity.com or speedtest.googlefiber.net it does fine but ookla doesn't. it could be that the the app is picking a server that isn't capable of maxing out your connection while your pc is.
Ah...that would make sense if the built in Ookla tool in the Genie/Nighthawk is hardcoded to always test to a certain server and if that server is far from me, it could result in 50% the throughput compared to my laptop picking a closer server.
