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Why Netgear Nethawk app is cheating on speedtest?
Why Netgear is cheating in its speed test in the Nethawk mobile app ?
On the mobile phone I get 200Mbit down and 100 Mbit up, but there it is not possible to get to such speeds on PC wired directly to router.
Nethawk app is just using short bursts of data that is why maybe how they achive such results, its CHEATING. Graphs on the router show only up to 1Mb/s Up or down during cheated test. When using real speedtest.net test it goes up to 65-80 Mb/s as it should.
Screen from app below and link to REAL speedtest.
https://www.speedtest.net/result/10535580034
cheated test
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- I can't see the picture you've added as it needs to be moderated, could you provide a link to it instead please?
Here it is:
- It's likely they are different as the mobile app is testing the speeds directly from the router to the server rather than the manual test you do is from the device to the router to the server so there are extra variables that can affect the connection. Have you changed any QoS settings?
