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I noticed that with my gigablast, I got about 400-550 download on WiFi inside the house. However, when I ran a 40 foot cat-8 ethernet cable from my panoramic modem to my laptop in the other room, the download speed doubled to 900-950. Don't know if this is an answer, but I have found the true gigablast download from Cox will only work when it is hardwired through the ethernet ( this is to a computer OR your ethernet input on the back of your television).
- Dbatech5 years agoNew Contributor II
True. However, I am not measuring the speed of my wifi network. I am measuring the speed using Cox's own tool directly off a hardwired connection to their Panasonic modem, which I rent. I should also divulge, I make my living as an infrastructure, IT technical solutions consultant. I am very adept at configuring networks. I can assure you these simple "you are probably missing this or need a reset yada yada yada" configuration errors are not the case with my speed. I appreciate your response, but wifi speed is not the issue here. I have an enterprise grage wifi6 router that has 2 Gigabit coverage in my house, so my wifi is more than capable and is being limited by the Cox service, which consistently stays below 300mbps ( less than a third of the 950+ promised with Cox).
- ChrisL5 years agoFormer ModeratorI checked the modem from this end for you and I see that it's still in setup mode which is supposed to disable the connection. I'd suggest visiting http://192.168.0.1 to setup your wifi name and password then try testing your speeds again as you have been.
-Chris
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