Ok so my problem is I have a ethernet cable that runs from my main router into a secondary router with a cat 6 cable into my bedroom but I can only get 90 mbps in the bedroom but I get 200+ mbps on my PS4 that is attached to the main router with the same type cat 6 cable. How can I make the ethernet in the bedroom faster?
Model: R6900P|Nighthawk AC1900 Smart WiFi Dual Band Gigabit Router
Assuming the network cable is fine (all four pairs/eightstrands workable): Check make and model of the secondary router - well possible it has Fast Ethernet ports only. This is what the amber link LED are indicating.
Well the secondary router is a n300 router that isn't fast link capable but even when I connect my laptop to the secondary router's ethernet cable it still flashes amber.
So secondary router is the Netgear WNR 2000. The secondary router push roughly 90mbps but even when I bypass the secondary router and go: main router ------> computer it still only pushes 90mbps.
An N300 WiFi made not half of that speed, so Fast Ethernet was the standard of choice back then. And Gigabit was not inexpensive at these times.
Last but not least: There was and is still no standard on Ethernet link speed indicator colours and layouts on the ports.
@Dmax32 wrote: even when I bypass the secondary router and go: main router ------> computer it still only pushes 90mbps.
if the computer does not negotiate a Gigabit Ethernet link it's very likely the computer does not have a Gigabit capable port, or the cabling is borked as explained several times in this thread already.
@Dmax32 wrote: So secondary router is the Netgear WNR 2000.
You will never get over 100 Mbps out of a WNR2000, which was first launched in 2008.
According to Netgear's manual for these devices, not always the most reliable source of information, the LAN and WAN support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer internet services and most modern network hardware. Newer devices support at least 1000BASE-TX.
