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WIFI Speed not as fast as the SPeedTest results
Hi All, I need some help.....i have tested the speed at the router and have almost 300Mbps. I connect my iphone Xr to the wifi and ran a fast.com test and only get 12Mbps. i have researched ...
Are you using smart connect? Yes, single wifi name
What band are you connecting to? 6,44,157
If you hardwire a pc/laptop into the router, what speeds do you get? 340 Mbps avg
What modem/gateway is the router connected to? armstong cable modem, not sure of name
What firmware is on the router? V1.0.4.76_10.1.82
this is a recent speed issue, within the last 4 months.
sorry....jsut looked again.
6, 48, 161
Try disabling smart connect and test each band to see what each band speed you get.
thank you for the insight....here are the results when disabling "Smart Connect"
2.4Ghz showed 60Mbps
5 Ghz-1 showed 330 Mbps
5 Ghz-2 showed 300 Mbps
using the above mentioned channels.
What does this mean?
Krit21 wrote:
thank you for the insight....here are the results when disabling "Smart Connect"
2.4Ghz showed 60Mbps
5 Ghz-1 showed 330 Mbps
5 Ghz-2 showed 300 Mbps
using the above mentioned channels.
What does this mean?
Seems like you're getting full speeds then. 2.4ghz is a slow band and suffers from interference. But it broadcasts further and through more materials. So it tends to get used with things like IoT devices or devices that don't need much speed. Maybe smart connect had the XR on the 2.4ghz band and was having interference. You can try re-enabling smart connect and see if it balances things out but if it doesn't, you can always disable it.
