Question How Fast is My Home Wi-Fi?

[bill18163]

Is there a way to find out what speed my home wi-fi is running at? I have a Netgear Nighthawk AC 1750 Smart WiFi router Model R6700v2 and a Nighthawk x6s AC3000 Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender Model EX8000. My download speed from the internet is usually around 250-275Mbps but I am wondering what my network is running at in the house. I am getting pauses when streaming videos on my TV.

 

[kanewolf]

Is there a way to find out what speed my home wi-fi is running at? I have a Netgear Nighthawk AC 1750 Smart WiFi router Model R6700v2 and a Nighthawk x6s AC3000 Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender Model EX8000. My download speed from the internet is usually around 250-275Mbps but I am wondering what my network is running at in the house. I am getting pauses when streaming videos on my TV.

I am not sure I understand your question, because WIFI depends on many factors, signal strength (both receive and transmit), frequency band used, bandwidth configured on the router, they protocol (AC, AX, N), the number of channels a specific client can use at once (MIMO), and interference from other people's WIFI
For a specific device, you can look at the link speed in the properties of your WIFI connection.
You can look at the configuration of your router. If you live in a detached house, you can probably run 5Ghz bandwidth of 80Mhz which for most people would provide 350 - 400Mbit throughput.
How is your X6S connected to your primary router? Wired or wirelessly ?

 

[lantis3]

My understanding AC3000 = 450 + 1300 + 1300. and your individual client device can only connect to one of the bands and have 3 antennas to take full advantage of the bandwidth. Most client devices only have 2.

And as suggested, wifi depends on a lot of factors (line of sight, wall materials, environment noise, distance, location, etc. ). The wifi signal strength will fluctuate 24/7.

Your Nighthawk® X6S Tri-Band WiFi Router spec. or EX8000 extender, should be similar or the same.
https://www.netgear.com/media/R7900P_tcm148-54005.pdf P.12

Technical Specifications
• AC3000† WiFi-

Band 1: 450 Mbps @2.4GHz-​

Band 2: 1300Mbps @5GHz-​

Band 3: 1300Mbps @5GHz​

• Simultaneous Tri-Band WiFi-

Tx/Rx 3x3 (2.4GHz) +​

3x3 (5GHz) +​

3x3 (5GHz)-​

IEEE® 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz​

IEEE® 802.11 a/n/ac 5GHz​

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Even if you know the link speed, it's not the real speed.

Page @bill001g for details.

 

[kanewolf]

Even if you know the link speed, it's not the real speed.

Link rate is the best rule of thumb. Throughput is generally 1/2 the link rate. If you have an 866Mbit link rate, then you have about 420Mbit throughput, for example.

 

[lantis3]

Link rate is the best rule of thumb. Throughput is generally 1/2 the link rate. If you have an 866Mbit link rate, then you have about 420Mbit throughput, for example.

Due to wifi's half duplex?

 

[kanewolf]

Due to wifi's half duplex?

YEP.