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Latency bounces all over.
I have an extremely fast Netgear Nighthawk CAX30 and the 1.2Gbps package and I get at best 800Mbps and most of the time like 400-500Mbps. This is absolutely ridiculous for the money I have to pay every month. I am hard wired for my PCs so I should be getting the 800Mbps at the very least on the regular. I am pretty sure Xfinity throttles customer's network speed.
BruceW
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The CAX30 is not compatible with Gigabit internet service. Comcast/Xfinity rates it for wired download speeds "Up to 949 Mbps". See https://www.xfinity.com/support/devices. Using devices on Internet speed tiers for which they are not approved tends to produce unexpected results, often speeds well below the ones you are paying for.
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BruceW
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Netgear did a lot of exaggerating in the specs for the CAX30. The data sheet at https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/CAX30/CAX30_DS.pdf hints at speeds of 10Gbps, but that's a DOCSIS value that does not apply to this gateway. At the bottom of page 3 under the Xfinity/Spectrum/Cox heading it says "Certified with Xfinity with speeds up to 800Mbps", and that's the reality. And the 2.7Gbps speed you mentioned is a bit of a stretch as well: it's a Wifi speed they get by adding the maximum 2.4 GHz Wifi speed to the maximum 5 GHz Wifi speed (page 5).
AFAIK Comcast/Xfinity has never said how they provision devices operating on speed tiers they're not approved for. All I can tell you is that many customers who tried it have reported that they don't get full speed. There's a tendency to think the device will operate at the maximum speed it is capable of, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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XfinityThomasA
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BruceW
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The suggestion is incomplete as it doesn't mention the "All Compatible Devices" link near the bottom of https://www.xfinity.com/support/devices (at the moment it points to https://assets.xfinity.com/assets/dotcom/projects/cix-4997_compatible-devices/2024.09.18%20Full%20List%20of%20Compatible%20Devices.pdf, but this changes from time to time). The PDF contains many devices that the web page once did, but no longer does.
Comcast/Xfinity does a disservice to its customers by not bringing all the 3rd party device information together in one place, including all the requirements for the faster upload speeds introduced over a year ago. It should NOT be necessary to have to consult the Devices page, the All Devices PDF, and a random (and currently unavailable) Reddit page to gather all the information needed to decide which device to use. A $100 billion company can easily afford to do better.
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