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RBR40 connection drops and low "max rate"
TL;DR: While trying to fix my signal dropping, I found my max rate (though-put?) seemed incredibly low. Is it me or is it Netgear or is it InSSIDer? I have had frequent, intermittent signal drops ...
Well, I've had a stable connection now for three straight days so I think this is solved. Between the instrux from FURRYe38 and shutting down the Chromecast, it looks like this is solved.
Biigdaddio wrote:The real questoin here is:
InSSIDer shows me that the max rate on my old, old Airport and the old Nighthawk are both 450 (2.4), but my much newer Orbis are all three of them only 50.
Any thoughts? Is the RBR40s just crap?
inSSIDER's display of "Max Rate" is simply the theoretical bandwidth of the type of connection (2.4Ghz vs. 5Ghz), the channel width, etc. It doesn't actually have anything to do with the actual wireless speed you're experiencing. The same is true for the Windows Wi-Fi Status's Speed Quality (e.g., 866.7 Mbps).
For example, inSSIDER tells me my wireless connection's Max Rate is 1733.3 because my laptop is connected at 5Ghz with AX, whereas my guest network shows as 216.7 because I've limited it to just b/g/n modes for legacy compatibility. You can find a table of these theoretical Max Rate values here: https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#wifispeeds
If you want to measure the actual wireless speeds you're experiencing on your home network, run a speed test using a website or app like https://www.speedtest.net/ . It will report measured results, not just what the wireless link type is capable of.
Thanks, Mikey94025. Yes, absolutely, running speedtest always shows I'm getting what Verizon owes me. I guess I just ignore the max rate, then. I guess I thought the rate at which the router could pass data would related to how much data could go through at any time. So it is great that Verizon is really fast but if the router choked on 4k streaming while my son is doing some heavy gaming, would the router be a bottleneck. But no, huh.