Router speeds OUT of our router

ramyankee wrote:
We have Spectrum service. A few months ago the told us we now have 300mbps service... They sent us a new modem. Ok, we were still getting, through my phone, 115mbps. Gen 7 Fire tablet is about 80mbps. The router is a Nighthawk 7800, about 2 1/2 years old, updated with the newest firmware. I installed a Genie app. Checking the speeds on the Netgear Genie app it says speeds out of the router is 238mbps. I am guessing the Netgear app has to be giving us the speeds out of the router and not out of the Spectrum modem? Because it cannot read speeds from the modem????? Correct. And the phone is a cheaper LG Stylo4...

So, what may be holding us up? Spectrum SAYS the system is working correctly. Can the router be too old to pass the 238 to us? I am totally over my head understanding most of what all the parties have told us. Almost like saying that it is the other guys fault.

Thank you

Hate to tell you, WiFi speeds are dependent on a lot of things and not ALL WiFi radios built in work equally well.

There are "standards" for WiFi, based off of the initial standard of 802.11 it started out at 1 mbps, superceeded by 2 mbps (which didn't talk to the old 1 mbps)..

Then came 802.11g which offers 54 mbps..

802.11n offered 108 mbps but it never really took off and I doubt many radio cards or APs really implemented it because there were several different standards (similar to "beta vs VHS" fight back in the 1980s) which were not compatible between them.

Speed comes at a price, distance, signal strength, signal quality, interference all affects the speed of your wireless devices..

WiFi speed is autonegotiated on the fly depending on how strong the signal is.

Your devices you mentioned have internal WiFi antennas, they typically are less than ideal which cuts down the distance you get and the speed you get.

If you are getting 80 mbps-115 mbps on WiFi, be happy you are getting that, it isn't going to get any better.

IF you want the max your Internet connection can offer you WILL need to connect your Laptop DIRECTLY through a wired Ethernet connection to your router and hopefully your router and laptop have a one gigibit connection..

There IS a huge difference in speed between 100 mbps and 1 gbps..