Netgear router limiting speeds wired and wireless

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dolandr

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I've had the 200mbps package fro Time Warner cable. Still got buffering when trying to stream movies on my Amazon TV and Netflix app on my Vizio tv.

I have the Arris Motorolla 600 Series 6183 and with my computer hooked up via an ethernet cable to the Netgear router WNDR3400v3, I still get 89mbps when dong a speed test. Now if I bypass the router and hook up the Mac computer straight to the modem, bam! OVER 300mbps speeds (more than what I'm paying for).

The product page on the Netgear for the WNDR3400v3 says it can get 300mbps speeds over wireless but I certainly don't. I get the same whether wired or wireless.

Also, I have the Amazon TV hooked up to a TP-Link AV500 300Mbps wifi rage extender/Powerline with an ethernet cable (it uses the house electrical wires) so essentially, it's wired and I'm getting shit-speeds of 12mbps max.

Any ideas how I can get my stupid router to spit out 300mbs?
 
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Your WAN port is only 100m so you can never exceed that to the internet no matter what you do.

The WiFi numbers are at best confusing but are as close to a lie as they can get without getting in trouble.

This site has lots of testing results. Most routers with gig ports can run 300m on the wired ports, getting that much speed on the wireless is going to require going to the newest technology and even then the top one only is 266m. This means you likely have to replace the nics in your machines with 802.11ac also which may be impossible if it is a tablet or phone.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/view
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bill001g

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Why would you think a router that only has 10/100 ports could exceed 100m.

Wireless is a massive marketing trick with those numbers. Even the best routers on the market talking to high end nic cards can barely get 100m on the 2.4g band. On 5g using 802.11ac they get around 300m...even though they are claiming 1200 or whatever magic number they put on the box.
 
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Do those numbers refer to the wired ethernet connection? If so, then does that mean that wifi can get faster speeds than wired when using this router??

And if this router cannot get 300 download speeds then which routers should I be looking at?
 
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bill001g

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Your WAN port is only 100m so you can never exceed that to the internet no matter what you do.

The WiFi numbers are at best confusing but are as close to a lie as they can get without getting in trouble.

This site has lots of testing results. Most routers with gig ports can run 300m on the wired ports, getting that much speed on the wireless is going to require going to the newest technology and even then the top one only is 266m. This means you likely have to replace the nics in your machines with 802.11ac also which may be impossible if it is a tablet or phone.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/view
 
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