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Speed listed on Netgear Genie much slower than speedtest.net
I am using a netgear C3700 N600 Wifi cable modem router. The router/mdodem is hardwired to my computer When I do a speedtest on Netgear Genie to www.netgear.com it says my download speed from this ...
When cable attached to the Netgear WNR2000v4 N-300 router, I get the rated Suddenlink speeds of 50Mbs/5Mbs, Wireless I get only 20Mbs/5Mbs. So, yes I have the available CAPACITY from my ISP. I have just ordered a new network adapter to replace my older 1397 G protocol one. Hopefully, the new dual band running N protocol will help there.
I was really questioning the speeds the Netgear speed test reports (0.7Mbs the fastest) to any site. I suppose it's speed tests are for very small packages and not considered "download" file transfers. In other words, typical browser transactions. I would really like to understand what they are doing so I can put the 0.7Mbs in perspective. That is all I was hoping.
Thanks for confirming my beliefs.
Yeah, if you have a 802.11g Wi-Fi adapter, then 20 Mbps is about the best it can do. A dual-band 802.11n adapter will reach about 60 to 70 Mbps at 2.4 GHz and maybe 120 to 130 Mbps at 5 GHz.
I wouldn't trust the speed test results provided by the desktop Genie program. I don't think its test methodology is documented anywhere and, like you said, it's probably testing a very small sample size.