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A few months ago, I obtained a new router and modem. One thing in particular that had my interest with this router and modem is the support for 5Ghz connections. Although, I noticed something very strange upon testing the speeds to ensure everything was in working order after installation. According to the test, and every test I've ran since, 5Ghz connections and direct connections report a download speed between 110-140mbps. This can't be right, because applications used to show my speeds in real time while browsing on all my devices never showed those speeds exceeding 40-45mbps downloads. Such is to be expected, as the package we're getting through our ISP is one for 50mbps download speeds.
I never really thought anything of it, until I started to have issues with the connection I was lead to believe could be my ISP throttling the connections. Over the past three weeks, speeds from my bedroom, which sits no more than 20 feet from the modem, have gone from their initial drop to 35-40mpbs which is to be expected with the distance from the modem, down to as low as 3mbps! When I tried to resolve this issue with my ISP, they had told me it appears that I'm getting roughly 110mbps connections, so they had no idea why I was complaining about low speeds. At that moment, I realized that the speeds are going to be showing as being way faster than they actually are, because for whatever reason, tests on direct connections and 5Ghz wireless connections show ridiculously inaccurate download speed results.
Since what little I know about networking was a crash course back when I was looking for a replacement modem, I have no idea why this is happening, and figured someone here would probably understand the problem far better than I would. Googling the answer also failed me. (Google seemed to think I wanted to know about the differences between 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz connections when I searched for the solution.)
Now that you know the problem, here's the information one of the pinned posts suggested I post:
Modem: Motorola Surfboard 200 series model SB 6121
Router: Linksys AC 1200 model EA6350
PC Specs (Posting the parts they ask for specifically, because I wasn't sure how redundant a full list of specs would be. I will post everything if needed): ASRock H97m Anniversary mATX motherboard, Thermaltake TR2 600w PSU, TP Link TL-WDN3800 N600 PCIe wireless adapter, running Zorin OS 9 Core 64-bit (Linux OS heavily based on Ubuntu 14.04)
ISP and Connection Type: Comcast/Xfinity broadband
Known Connected Devices: 1 Desktop (mentioned above), 2 laptops, 6 phones, 3 tablets, 1 Apple TV, 1 Roku stick, and 2 Chromecast sticks.*
*This is the total amount of devices I know of that can be connected to the internet at any time. At least half of these devices are not regularly connected and all speed tests are only conducted at times when everyone else who would be on their devices is either not home, or I can confirm that they are not actively using the device.
I never really thought anything of it, until I started to have issues with the connection I was lead to believe could be my ISP throttling the connections. Over the past three weeks, speeds from my bedroom, which sits no more than 20 feet from the modem, have gone from their initial drop to 35-40mpbs which is to be expected with the distance from the modem, down to as low as 3mbps! When I tried to resolve this issue with my ISP, they had told me it appears that I'm getting roughly 110mbps connections, so they had no idea why I was complaining about low speeds. At that moment, I realized that the speeds are going to be showing as being way faster than they actually are, because for whatever reason, tests on direct connections and 5Ghz wireless connections show ridiculously inaccurate download speed results.
Since what little I know about networking was a crash course back when I was looking for a replacement modem, I have no idea why this is happening, and figured someone here would probably understand the problem far better than I would. Googling the answer also failed me. (Google seemed to think I wanted to know about the differences between 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz connections when I searched for the solution.)
Now that you know the problem, here's the information one of the pinned posts suggested I post:
Modem: Motorola Surfboard 200 series model SB 6121
Router: Linksys AC 1200 model EA6350
PC Specs (Posting the parts they ask for specifically, because I wasn't sure how redundant a full list of specs would be. I will post everything if needed): ASRock H97m Anniversary mATX motherboard, Thermaltake TR2 600w PSU, TP Link TL-WDN3800 N600 PCIe wireless adapter, running Zorin OS 9 Core 64-bit (Linux OS heavily based on Ubuntu 14.04)
ISP and Connection Type: Comcast/Xfinity broadband
Known Connected Devices: 1 Desktop (mentioned above), 2 laptops, 6 phones, 3 tablets, 1 Apple TV, 1 Roku stick, and 2 Chromecast sticks.*
*This is the total amount of devices I know of that can be connected to the internet at any time. At least half of these devices are not regularly connected and all speed tests are only conducted at times when everyone else who would be on their devices is either not home, or I can confirm that they are not actively using the device.