Slow Wireless / Fast Wired

[cybernigel]

For my AC1600 (model C6250) speed test with ethernet cable is 120Mbps down, but with 2.4Ghz wireless from 5 feet away it is only 20Mbps. Any suggestions?

[DarrenM]

Hello cybernigel

Have you tried to adjust the wireless channel on the 2.4ghz?

DarrenM

[cybernigel]

Hi David,

I appreciate the reply. What specific adjustments to the 2.4Ghz channel are you suggesting?

Thank you

[DarrenM]

This Kb may help you with this just apply the same method it outlines to the 2.4ghz network.

https://kb.netgear.com/25182/Resolving-poor-5GHz-wireless-range-signal-from-my-NETGEAR-router

DarrenM

[cybernigel]

Hi Darren,

I appreciate the reply and helpful KB article. I will try using a channel analyzer, but I did some brute force troubleshooting last night and tried each of the available 11 channels and ran speedtest.net against them. On the best channel I was still only getting ~30Mbps down while with a wired connection I'm well over 100Mbps down. I performed these tests about 5 feet away from the router and the R6250 does not have any adjustable attennas.  Any other suggestions?

Thanks a lot