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Paying for 1100mbps, Xfinity app shows 1300mbps, every single other resource is showing 650mbps at best.
PC is hardwired to a Pod, which is plugged 10 feet below the Gateway itself. When using PC or phone from any location in the house, the most I see is 650mbps according to fast.com. Steam downloads barely see 500.
the Xfinity app though, of course, wants to tell me that everything is fine! So does the useless AI chat bot who leads me in circles, only sending me to a human once I tell it I have a billing problem…. Who then tells me “buy a phone from us! and also everything looks fine I have no answers for you” and to send a technician out here it would cost an unspecified truck roll fee if the issue was deemed to be “customer education”. The UX is truly terrible and needs to be fixed.
I’ve rebooted devices, the gateway, the pod, I’ve reset devices, disconnected and reconnected, nothing that gets recommended to me is even promising. I work in IT, so even some kind of backend settings change would be nice to be suggested as opposed to the most basic troubleshooting steps followed by charging me money for anything further. At this point I’m tempted to just downgrade since my 500mbps plan never struggled to deliver 500mbps, which I’m still getting despite paying twice that (Really I’m tempted to cancel but Xfinity has a monopoly in my area).
EG
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111.5K Messages
1 month ago
FWIW. The maximum rated speed of an Xfinity second-generation pod is 500 Mbps.
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XfinityRaf
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1 month ago
Good evening @user_u83q34. Have you tried a speed test on a device not connected to the pod? As mentioned, the pods have a download maximum.
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Chris851
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1 month ago
If the PC is plugged into a Pod, that's the problem. Pod is just a WiFi mesh node. So that means PC only gets whatever the Pod gets over the air back to the gateway. THAT is your bottleneck.
You pay for 1300mbps.... *to the gateway*. Plug a PC with a 2.5gbps Ethernet port into the gateway and you'll probably get 1300mbps or close to it. If WiFi is slower, that doesn't mean you have [Edited: "Language"] service, it means your WiFi isn't keeping up. Can't speak to that without knowing the exact equipment you have. I know WiFi 7 with a good channel width on 5/6GHz should be able to do 1300mbps.
However some quick research suggests the Gen2 Pod only supports 500mbps with 'ac3000' WiFi standard (aka WiFi 5, 802.11ac). So that's your bottleneck.
If you want maximum speed on your PC, run an Ethernet cable directly from gateway to PC.
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