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RAX80 capping wifi speeds at 450Mbs
Router: RAX80 Firmware at the time of posting: V1.0.1.70_1.0.30 What is the first thing you do after you get gig internet? You check your speeds! My wired desktop is achieving the full pro...
Wifi speeds are in the hands of the wifi clients. For most wifi clients, 400Mbps would be excellent.
Your upload speeds of 865Mbps are unlikely. Indeed, you may well be looking at link rate, which is by no means that same as transfer speed.
Link Rate and Transfer Speed | Answer | NETGEAR Support
I recommend a careful reading of this somewhat technical explanation of wifi speeds.
Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11 n/ac/ad/ax)
A good test is to take these wifi clients to different places and see how fast they are there.
Thank you michaelkenward for the response. I have always enjoyed Duckware's realist attitude towards wireless speed. I try to heed the advice from that article when making my wireless network decisions.
In my tests I posted the link speed (PHY speed) to report the strength of the connection to the RAX80. I too doubted the 865Mbs upload speed, until I did more tests. My ISP does 'promise' 1000Mbs down and 1000Mbs up.
So here are some more test results to bolster my case. My argument is the router seems to be capping my wireless devices at 450Mbs down. I have turned off QoS for all of these tests.
I am running all of these tests about 5-8 ft from the RAX80. It is within line of sight.
Macbook Pro (2017)
802.11ac
PHY/Link rate: 1300Mbs (at the time of testing)
https://speedtest.xfinity.com/
Speed Down: 448.6Mbs
Speed Up: 831.4Mbs
Speed Down: 400Mbs
Speed Up: 660Mbs
Speed Down: 370Mbs
Speed Up: 805Mbs
Samsung S10 (2019)
Wifi 6ax
PHY/Link rate: 1200Mbs (at the time of testing)
https://speedtest.xfinity.com/
Speed Down: 320.6Mbs
Speed Up: 616.2Mbs
Speed Down: 410Mbs
Speed Up: 480Mbs
Speed Down: 380Mbs
Speed Up: 780Mbs
Can you test a 'download' lan to lan instead of wan to lan?
Tranfer a big file between PC's. With a file on a PC (ethernet), and grab it from a PC (wireless), like MacBook -- Then I assume MacBook have something similar to Windows Task Manager / Networking where you can figure out Mbps?
Goal: Try to eliminate anything with the Internet as the (possible) cause.
Hey duckware (❤️your site) and xjn Thank you for reaching out. I was able to test out local network file transfers. I am able to hit speeds above 450Mbs.
When I use my windows laptop I can get speeds around 850Mbs - 950Mbs. (Standard copy paste from the file explorer)
With the MacBook I can hit 1000Mbs download speeds across my local network (Pulling a 2.28 gig file from my wired desktop to my MacBook via FTP). I am sitting about 5 feet from the router within line of sight.
The question remains am I hitting a barrier over HTTP via my wireless devices? I am a bit confused on how can get gigbit speeds via local networking to my wireless devices (via file sharing protocols). I can get gigbit speeds via my wired desktop from web based speed tests. But I can't get gigbit speeds from my wireless devices during web basedspeed tests. Does this test tell us the router is not the bottleneck? Let me know your thoughts.
I guess I can dig out my old university notes on the 7 layers of networking 🤣🤣I have a feeling we are about to get deep.
Here is the file test from my MacBook
Macbook Pro (2017)
802.11ac
PHY/Link rate: 1300Mbs (at the time of testing)
VIA FTP:
sent 2.28G bytes received 42 bytes 130.17M bytes/sec
total size is 2.28G speedup is 1.00
VIA SMB:
sent 2.28G bytes received 42 bytes 38.29M bytes/sec
total size is 2.28G speedup is 1.00
Maybe something is wrong with the WAN to LAN... hell there is a lot wrong with this thing and I'm tired of troubleshooting it, tired of discussing, tired of thinking about it.... I barely care anymore. Have some stuff to take care of when have extra funds going to switch to Ubiquiti. Life is short and don't have time to waste all year dealing with stuff like this.
