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RS700S not delivering 1.5Gbps
I recently upgraded my modem and router so I could add more devices and get higher speeds. I purchased the Netgear Nighthawk CM2000 cable modem and the Nighthawk RS700S Wifi 7 router. According to th...
stanfrench wrote:
I then ran a speed test from within the Nighthawk app and it showed speeds around 1,600 Mbps. I assume this is measuring the speed that the router is receiving and the stand-alone Speedtest app on my iPad, iPhone and Macbook measures what the device is receiving (and is not close to 1,600Mbps).
The Nighthawk app does, indeed, measure the speed between the router and the mode, even though you are using a WiFi connection to initiate the test.
The standalone app on a device measures the WiFi speed between router and client. That isn't going to be as high as the wired speed. There aren't many WiFi clients that can handle those speeds.
What speeds does Apple say you will get from these clients?
It might be worth a bit of background reading.
Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11 n/ac/ad/ax)
@duckware knows their stuff and can bust a few myths and cut through marketing hype.
Just another user with time on their hands.
Thank you for your feedback and advice. I was able to determine that of my four devices, only one has the capability to receive at speeds higher than 1 Gbps; my iPad Pro M2 which has 6E capability. So I connected it to the 6 GHz channel, moved it to within a few feet of the RS700 router and was finally able to clock speeds above 1Gbps. It showed Download of 1,011 Mbps. Pretty far away from the 1,652 Mbps that is going in to the router and that will be my focus.
I'll look over the info on Wifi and if you have any troubleshooting insights to help close the speed gap, feel free to reply. I just installed both the CM2000 modem and RS700 router a couple of days ago using mainly the default settings. Perhaps there are some additional adjustments to need to make but which ones?
Thanks again.