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randywei
Oct 09, 2019Aspirant
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...
- Oct 09, 2019
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.
randywei
Oct 09, 2019Aspirant
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!
myersw
Oct 10, 2019Master
If I were getting the expected speeds from speedtest.net then I would write the Genie speed test off as still more issues with Netgear support and quite worrying about it. Time to move on.