02-14-2018, 05:49 PM
You are trying to crack 779 networks. The benchmark only uses 1 single network to find out the maximum speed.
The huge number of networks will reduce the overall speed almost linearly.
The more networks that you want to crack, the less speed.
Try to test with the example hash from https://hashcat.net/wiki/example_hashes
it should give you the full speed because it only contains 1 single network.
The speed at the beginning of your run is not yet correct, but after some minutes hashcat will show you the average/correct speed. This is why it seems that the speed dropped, while it didn't. It's just because you have a large hccapx file with many networks in it.
The huge number of networks will reduce the overall speed almost linearly.
The more networks that you want to crack, the less speed.
Try to test with the example hash from https://hashcat.net/wiki/example_hashes
it should give you the full speed because it only contains 1 single network.
The speed at the beginning of your run is not yet correct, but after some minutes hashcat will show you the average/correct speed. This is why it seems that the speed dropped, while it didn't. It's just because you have a large hccapx file with many networks in it.