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Realistic WIFI Speeds
Ok I want to be realistic, I have 1000mps fiber to my house. I know that through ethernet, will never get that high, but still really fast speeds. So with a router & 2 satellite setup I am only getti...
A couple things to check.
1. What is your housing materials? Many housing materials do great job of blocking signals. These include plaster lathe, adobe, brick, concrete, foil lined insulation, hvac.
2. How far apart is your router from the satellites?
3. What are you testing with (device and wifi chipset)? many wifi speeds are dependant on the device testing with. many phones have 1x1 antennas and so do cheaper laptop cards.
4. Are you testing over 2.4ghz or 5ghz? 5ghz is going to have much higher throughput but not as much range.
5. Firmware you're on?
6. If you hardwire into the router, what speeds do you get?
7. If you hardwire into the satellite, what speeds do you get?