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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...
What are you speeds seen with a ethernet PC connected directly to the back of the CM modem?
Then same PC connected to the RS connected to the CM modem?
Be sure you have PC that has a ethernet adapter that connects at 2.5 or higher speeds.
https://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/realistic-speeds-wi-fi-5-and-wi-fi-6
https://www.wiisfi.com
https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/6250056#zippy=%2Cmobile-devices-wi-fi
stanfrench wrote:
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 the specs, this pair should be more than capable of handling 200+ devices and delivering more up to 2.5 Gbps internet download speeds.
My ISP has confirmed they are delivering internet at around 1.7Gbps to my home. However when I measured the speeds with the stand-alone Speedtest app, I could never get more than 970 Mbps. Upload speed was fine (40-50Mbps) but download speeds are nowhere near what I expected.
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).
So it raises several questions that I am reaching out to the community for input on:
1. Why are the download speeds so different when measured via the Nighthawk app vs. the stand-alone Speedtest app?
2. Does the Nighthawk app measure the download speed coming into the router and the Speedtest app the speed at the device (Macbook, iPad, iPhone, etc.)?
3. If the Speedtest app measures the speed at the device, why is it so much less than the speed coming into the router as measured by the Nighthawk app?
4. What can I do to enable the devices to show speeds that are actually above 1,000Mbps (or 0.977 Gbps)?
I attached a short supporting file that helps to illustrate this anomaly. Any help to answer these four questions would be much appreciated.
I do have a couple of USB-C adapters with 2.5 Gbps ethernet ports and tried connecting that to my Macbook Pro. There must have been some problem with the MBP as it only showed 900 Mbps coming in from the CM2000. Strange.
I'm pretty sure the incoming signal to the router is ok, the Nighthawk app speedtest shows it to be around 1,650 Mbps. I was also able to determine that only my iPad Pro M2 can receive speeds above 1 Gbps (from the 6GHz channel), so I connected it ti 6G, moved it within a few feet of the router and finally got speeds above 940 (was 1,011 Mbps). It's still far away from the incoming speed to the router but progress nonetheless. Any tips to close that gap? Maybe settings on the router?
stanfrench wrote:
so I connected it ti 6G, moved it within a few feet of the router and finally got speeds above 940 (was 1,011 Mbps). It's still far away from the incoming speed to the router but progress nonetheless.
What speed does you research say you should get with the iPad Pro M2?
Are you still trying to get WiFi to match the wired speed?
Just another user with time on their hands.
According to the specs, my iPad Pro 12.9" M2 (6th generation, A2436) is capable of 2400 Mbps ax@6 Ghz. It also says 160 MHz maximum channel bandwidth, 11 (HE) maximum MCS index and maximum spatial streams/Type of 2/MIMO all of which I have no understanding of (yet).
I'm not expecting to match the incoming speed which is 1,650 Mbps regardless if via ethernet or wirelessly, My previous experience with my 1 Gbps incoming speed was around 90% via ethernet and 75% wirelessly when near the router. So I thought I should get about the same pass-through speeds or around 1,500 Mbps via ethernet and 1,250 Mbps wirelessly. Since this is my first experience with incoming speeds to the modem/router over 1 Gbps, I'm not really not sure what a realistic expectation should be, hence my reaching out to the community for those who would know.
