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Aspirant

Oct 05, 2017

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How to setup WAC510 for maximum throughput at 5G band?

Dear community, I recently purchased a WAC510 for my home use actually, but I soon find out that the overall throughput on the AC 5G band is much weaker than expected even with MU-MIMO enabled. M...

Retired_Member
Oct 06, 2017
Hi,
Thanks for the additional details.
In your next trial to collect logs, Please take care of below things. Meanwhile we will check this issue at our end.
- Download detailed logs while the test is going on.
- Please check for data rates on wireless client during the test(For MAC: option+left-click on WiFi icon, For Windows: netsh wlan show interface), Also please confirm that client is on 80MHz channel width.
- If possible, Can you please connect your Desktop directly to WAC510 LAN port and check the results using iperf tool(use -P 10 to fully utilize bandwidth).

Retired_Member

Oct 06, 2017

Hi Electricbug,

Welcome to Netgear Community.

Can you please share below information to understand the issue better.

1. Firmware version?

2. Channel utilization(available on Dashboard)

3. Distance between WAC510 AP and your wireless client?

4. Developer logs(from Monitoring->Logs) page

5. Your network topology? How is your Server connected 510(via Switch?) ?

Electricbug

Aspirant

Oct 06, 2017

Hello,

Thanks for replying, here’s the information:

The AP is on its newest firmware: V1.5.3.7
The channel is set to auto, it’s using channel 36, Bandwidth set to dynamic. The channel is hardly used because no one in the neighborhood is using 5G router
The distance is negligible (less than 1m during the test…), the output power is set 100% and on my laptop it measures RSSI less than -40dB
I will do a longer test later and send you the log
WAC510 is connected to Asus n66’s GBE switch through a Cat6 cable, n66’s radio has been turned off. A laptop is connected to WAC510 by WiFi; A desktop is connected to n66’s GBE switch through a Cat6 cable. The Lan Speed Test is performed between the two devices

Retired_Member
Oct 06, 2017
Hi,
Thanks for the additional details.
In your next trial to collect logs, Please take care of below things. Meanwhile we will check this issue at our end.
- Download detailed logs while the test is going on.
- Please check for data rates on wireless client during the test(For MAC: option+left-click on WiFi icon, For Windows: netsh wlan show interface), Also please confirm that client is on 80MHz channel width.
- If possible, Can you please connect your Desktop directly to WAC510 LAN port and check the results using iperf tool(use -P 10 to fully utilize bandwidth).
- Electricbug
  Aspirant
  Oct 08, 2017
  SoOK, I have done a bunch of tests and now I have a broad idea of what went wrong.
  Now the two test PCs are all connected to WAC's switch, it didn't help.
  I updated the driver for my Laptop and it seems to improve the upload rate to around 200Mbps so now both Uplink and Downlink have the same bottleneck.
  The wireless rate is confirmed to be 866 during the iperf3 test:
  And the results from iperf3 test are the same as the ones from LST:
  And if I try a duplex test:
  they all show that there is something limiting the rate to 200Mbps
  
  So then I tried a upload test with multiple threads and the result is interesting:
  So it appears to be a bottleneck within windows? Where the speed of each thread is limited to 200?
  
  The logs are attached, but it doesn’t seem interesting, the disconnections and reconnections are caused by changing driver parameters in the client
  
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- Electricbug
  Aspirant
  Oct 08, 2017
  Additional test with ipref's own multithread
  I am convinced that the problem is with windows, WAC510 is fine LOL. But do you have any suggestions to correct it?
  - Retired_Member
    Oct 10, 2017
    Hi Bug Ele,
    
    Thank you for all your trials. Glad you are convinced that WAC510 is not the reason for low throughput on 5G.
    
    So for iperf3, -P option must be used to pump more data on parallel streams(-P 10 would utilize full bandwidth of WAC510, -S 0x08 could also be used to maximize throughput using iperf3, More details at https://iperf.fr/iperf-doc.php). Your results are comparable.
    
    I'm not sure about windows bottleneck, If you still want better results with your 'LAN Speed Test' tool, Try running more instances of it(if it supports).
    
    Please accept threads as solutions so that it will benefit others.
    
    Please reach us if you need any other assistance on Netgear products, Thanks for choosing Netgear.