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Wifi speed 66% lower than ethernet
My desktop is hardwired (ethernet) to my modem, passing through the router, and download speed is roughly 150bms, with upload roughly 10mps. This is consistent with what the ISP provides. However, us...
Looks like that, single band, not dual.
Easy and fairly cheap to upgrade as long as you have a USB port. I have one... Amazon has many to choose from. $11 and up here. If you do get one, get one with at least 2 antennea's showing. Single one would have lower speed. If you want to be 'traveling' with the Laptop then the smaller mini or nano ones would work, just not as fast.
> Model: R6700v2|Nighthawk AC1750 Smart WiFi Router
Is that accurate? Firmware version?
> [...] If I hardwire this laptop via ethernet cable, it also gets
> 150mbs, so this is dedinitely not the laptop and not the modem. [...]
No, the bottleneck may not be the _Ethernet_ interface on your
(unspecified) "my laptop", but that test has not absolved the wireless
interface on your (unspecified) "my laptop". About which, the
non-psychics in your audience know nothing.
> [...] Any advice on what might be cutting my wifi speed by 66% for
> downloads, while the upload speed is preserved? [...]
A slow wireless interface on your (unspecified) "my laptop" could
explain that. Almost any old junk might be able to do 10Mb/s in either
direction, but fifteen times that speed might require better junk.
The R6700v2 is a dual-band router. Which radio band is your
(unspecified) "my laptop" using, 2.4GHz or 5GHz? Communication in the
2.4GHz band is generally slower than it is in the 5GHz band.
Does your (unspecified) "my laptop" get any higher speed when
(wirelessly) connected to any other router? Does any other device get
any higher speed when (wirelessly) connected to your router?
> [...] I am a bit of a novice here.
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." That wisdom holds
for wireless networking, too, and the (unspecified) wireless-network
adapter in your (unspecified) "my laptop" may be in that chain when
you're not using an Ethernet cable, instead.
Sorry, I said I was a bit of a novice. I thought everyone here was a psychic. :smileyhappy: (I did not know that you needed to know what my laptop is.) It is a a DELL latitude E7440.
But let's simplify the question and forget the laptop because the desktop does the same thing. My desktop is a Dell XPS 8920 Desktop - Intel Core i7-7700 7th Generation Quad-Core up to 4.2 GHz, 32GB DDR4 Memory, 1TB SSD + 3TB SATA Hard Drive, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 730, DVD Burner, Windows 10. It is only 1.5 years old.
When I unhook my ethernet from the desktop to the router and use the wireless connection from only three feet away, the same thing happens with this desktop. Download speeds drop roughly from 150 to 50.
I just purchased the router today, uploaded the latest firmware as part of installation, and spent three hours with "tech support" for netgear, with no solutions. Here is some other information that might be useful. My previous router was a Nighthawk ac2350 r7500. It did the same thing (drop speed to 50mbps), which is why I thought I needed a new one. But at least with the ac2350, I could use my laptop from 50 feet. Now, with the 1750 hooked up, I get no signal from that distance, and I assume that both of these routers should easily send a signal that far, yes?
> [...] It is a a DELL latitude E7440.
So, running some version of Windows?
> [...] It is only 1.5 years old.
Then I'd expect it to be able to use the 5GHz band, but I don't know
if you've asked it to do that.
> The R6700v2 is a dual-band router. Which radio band is your
> (unspecified) "my laptop" using, 2.4GHz or 5GHz? Communication in the
> 2.4GHz band is generally slower than it is in the 5GHz band.
Still wondering.
> [...] My previous router was a Nighthawk ac2350 r7500. It did the same
> thing (drop speed to 50mbps), which is why I thought I needed a new
> one. [...]
Could've been an error. Isn't an R7500 generally spifffier than an
R6700v2? (I believe that 2300 > 1750.)
> [...] with the ac2350, I could use my laptop from 50 feet. Now, with
> the 1750 hooked up, I get no signal from that distance, and I assume
> that both of these routers should easily send a signal that far, yes?
Depending on obstacles, I moght expect better, but that could also
depend on the radio band. Range tends to be better at 2.4GHz than at
5GHz.
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your (actual) model
number(s), and look for Documentation. Get the User Manual(s). Look at
the sections on wireless-network settings. Are you using one SSID for
all bands, or a unique SSID for each band?
I do little with wireless on Windows, but I'd bet that you can get
Windows to tell you which radio band/channel it's using for any wireless
connection.