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Netgear WAC120 Wireless slow
we purchased a wac120 over a year ago and its been a frustrating experience. i've had nothing but issues with the wifi.. it used to be that it'd start out up around 70-80Mbps which was obviously grea...
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Raghu
Several thoughts
WAC120 is not a router it's a AP " Access point "
I believe the hardware has a 3 year warranty
WMM must be enabled!
Explain how you connected and setup the WAC120
thanks.. you're right an AP - which is how i'm using it. It sits upstairs in our master closet to cover as much of the house as possible. Meanwhile our router (a linksys) sits downstairs next to the cablemodem. Imagine a cablemodem plugged into a cisco/linksys router (EA6500), plugged into a netgear switch (GS110TP) which all the house's ethernet ports are plugged into. Then upstairs, the WAC120 sits plugged into one of the ethernet ports.
i generally have both the router and AP configured with the same SSID although i've tried various frequency and channel configurations in an attempt to ensure there is no interference when both unit's wireless are turned on. I've also tried simply turning off the wireless altogether on the cisco router to isolate any problem to the wac120.
i have to admit it doesn't make much sense to me that WMM would need to be enabled to reach speeds north of 20Mbps if there is no other traffic for it to prioritize. Why is that? I just enabled it and sure enough, back up to 88Mbps. I guess i'll need to see if it starts doing what it did before and deteriorates down to 1Mbps after a few days..
Use channels 1,6 or 11 for 2.4
do not use any mode over 289 or 300 on 2.4
Use different channels on each device AP chan 1 router chan 6 for example
5 g if you actually have AC clients use 3 digit channels on AP and 2 digit on router
If no AC clients use 3 digit channels, first 2 on AP and last 2 on router and set mode to 300 on each
ok so in my case i've gravitated towards using 5g since i seem to get better performance there on both devices. I put the router at 48 and the WAC120 at 153. They were on auto before. I do have AC devices but you lost me on "set mode to 300 on each". I don't see anything called mode nor something that i can set to 300..?
Thanks for the help!
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