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aonavy1's avatar
aonavy1
Guide
Sep 10, 2019

Terrible AX wifi speeds (ax12) with AX200 laptop

1st off, I'm a 10 year systems admin, I have some knowledge here (not being cocky)

 

Laptop- Zenbook Duo Pro (ax200)
RAX120 router
XS505M 10Gbe switch
Z230 i7 16gb with Asus 10gbe network card and thunderbolt raid array

 

The desktop is connected to the switch (10Gbe), switch connected to mutilgig (5gb). I also have SSD connected in the USB 3.0 for further testing

 

I've updated drivers on all systems for their network cards
Verified all connections are at the correct speeds. Wifi is around 1.0Gbs to 1.7Gbs

 

My issue here is that my wifi speeds are terrible. I'm getting close to 50MBs  when testing transfer speeds with iperf3 and just about the same with the SSD in the USB

 

-I've disabled QOS (WMM) but it made it so my wifi connection was 54MBs for a connection

-Iv disabled AX and at one point I got speeds to 145MBs but did a factory reset and reconfigured the router and now I'm back down to 50MBs

-I've factory reset multiple times, power cycled all hardware including fiber box.

 

Any ideas?

 

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  • Christian_R's avatar
    Christian_R
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Sep 11, 2019

    aonavy1, 

     

    Thanks for taking the time to post. Would you mind providing us with the firmware version your router is currently on. 


    ~Christian 

  • abogrhen's avatar
    abogrhen
    Guide
    Sep 17, 2019

    for me i am having a different problem 

    the speed is good 

    but after 2 hours the actual net speed drop from 100 mb to 15mb or lower 

    and resetting either the wifi card or router solve it for 2 hours then i have to repeat again 

    • Christian_R's avatar
      Christian_R
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Sep 17, 2019

      abogrhen, 

       

      Please try disabling the smart connect feature if you have it enabled. 

       

      Christian 

      • aonavy1's avatar
        aonavy1
        Guide
        Sep 17, 2019
        It's never been on. I did however get some decent speeds (175MBs) changing the channel to 100 using HT160. I think should be closer to 200-225MBs while connected to 2.4ghz but this work until another firmware comesabout.