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Just bought AX8 yesterday, returning today - no improvement on performance
Backgroung: have an R7000 AC1900 Nighthawk router - getting about 130 Mbs on wifi on my Samsung S10 devices (wifi6, mu-mimo capable) with an ISP speed of 300 Mbs. We hve a few deadspots, and looking ...
What test system was used there for the local performance test?
I would return the S10, too: This is a Google Pixel 2 on an el-cheepo 80 USD Netgear WAC505 (a basic 802.11ac 867 Mb/s 2x2 MU-MIMO AP), no special test reservation, just pure ad-hoc test in the evening with the all the family members home - Fiber Internet connection, two UltraHD live video streams (different programs, ICMP multicast - on switched Ethernet, ISP 1.25 Gb/s total link rate, 1 Gb/s for Internet), two kids watching YouTube (different APs), and much more what is concurrently going on - and tested against the ISP speed test service.
That's nice....but not the point. This is about WiFi 6 capability, which the AX8 and Samsung S10 both have - and should provide better bandwidth and range. Appreciate your comments, but not on topic here.
You still have not told us on how you run the speed test on the magic Wi-Fi 6 wireless link between mobile and router.
Any indications of the PHY link rate of this connection?
1) click on WiFi on S10, select the wifi you are connected to, it shows you the speed
2) Netgear WiFi Analytics app
3) WiFi sweetsports app
3) WiFi analyzer app
All show about 270-280 Mbs.
Now when I used the ORbi, which is just AC3000 and no Wifi6, I was getting 400 - 500 Mbs on the S10 around my house.
Basically, not worth waiting for Samsung and Netgear to get WiFi 6 updates and releases our where they are in synch and actually have good performance.
Try turning off MU-MIMO, Galaxy devices still use Broadcom WiFi chipsets I believe. Broadcom client chips kinda are terrible with MU. Sometimes they drop to a 1x1 mode rather than standard 2x2. Some of the previous few MU supporting Galaxy devices had similar issues.
Qualcomm and Intel WiFi chipsets are the ones that do MU well.
