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Wax620 very slow
Recently I deployed two WAX620 wireless access point for a client, in his newly constructed house. The house has 1 Gb/sec synchronous Internet service from AT&T. All Cat 6 cable is new and has been c...
There are many variables in these Wi-Fi speed equations....
Biggest one comes from the wireless clients and it's capabilities. Are these 11ac or 11ax clients? Many 11ax mobile clients are 2x2 only
Next is the environment and the config of the AP for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. On 2.4 GHz there is not much channel headroom due to the limited bandwidth available. On 5 GHz band there can be other channel wasters like video or HDMI transmission systems. Are the WAX620 configured to use 80 MHz bandwidth, or at least 20...80 MHz automatic? Are there other 5 GHz APs on air in the wireless reach on the 80 MHz wide channel set active?
The WAX620 is built on a AX3600 dual-radio platform. 2,4 GHz at the limited bandwidth of the band (72 MHz on Channels 1..11 or > 80 MHz on Channels 1..13) does a max link rate of almost 1,2 Gb/s (AX1200), on 5 GHz AX2400 it allows max link rates slightly above 2400 Mb/s. Deducting the protocol overhead, this allows higher throughput than what the installed 1 GbE Ethernet allows, sill much more than what the ISP does provide.
Good thoughts. Thanks. Both WAX620s are set for automatic bandwidth on both 2.4 and 5. The clients are not the issue, I don't think. All the devices we have tested have speed tested at 900 plus, when tested on the AT&T router. We have WiFi turned off on the AT&T router. the AT&T router is in pas-through (bridge) mode, so it does nothing but act as the passive gateway device. I will look for rogue signals. Thanks.
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