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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...
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.
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.
- Probably not a distance issue. It might be just picking the lowest latency server and that one might not be capable of saturating gigabit. I'm not sure how the built in app is deciding which to pick.
Just tried the Genie browser built-in speed test while I was hardwired into my router and still got about 450/40, but when I test separately at speedtest.net I get the gigabit downstream.
I guess pleman's answer will have to do! Thanks!