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A6200 installed - results
I have the R6300 router, and the A6200 adapter installed on a Windows 7 desktop. The R6300 is updated with the latest firmware and located one floor below in my basement and about 50' away. My deskto...
Hi man,
I also just bough the Netgear router R6300 and the A6200 adapter. When I installed my adapter, I had the exact same results as you. Meaning, 144 Mbps for the 2.4 GHz and 175 for the 5 GHz frequency. As you were, and probably still are, I was also very disappointed.
Needless to say, I went to bed very disappointed. But today, when I opened my computer, the speed was surprisingly higher: in average stable at 585 Mbps (the whole day) and sometimes it went up to 702 Mbps when downloading a file. What I should mention is that in the morning, we had a power outage. Hence, the only difference before yesterday and today is that the router was rebooted.
SUGGESTED SOLUTION: Reboot your router after installing your adapter. Hopefully, that will solve your problem.
P.S. Just for fun, I tried to test what the gentlemen below recommended. I deactivated the wireless adapter on my laptop and installed the A6200 adapter on it and went right next to my router in the basement. By the way, my desktop is 2 floors up. Apart from the small fluctuation you refereed to (i.e., up to 230 Mbps on the 5 GHz), it did not go higher than that. And anyway, I was able to get that 230 Mbps on the 2nd floor. I thus concluded that the distance and walls did not seem to impact the connection much. At least not enough to solve the problem you refer to.
Cheers,
Mus
I also just bough the Netgear router R6300 and the A6200 adapter. When I installed my adapter, I had the exact same results as you. Meaning, 144 Mbps for the 2.4 GHz and 175 for the 5 GHz frequency. As you were, and probably still are, I was also very disappointed.
Needless to say, I went to bed very disappointed. But today, when I opened my computer, the speed was surprisingly higher: in average stable at 585 Mbps (the whole day) and sometimes it went up to 702 Mbps when downloading a file. What I should mention is that in the morning, we had a power outage. Hence, the only difference before yesterday and today is that the router was rebooted.
SUGGESTED SOLUTION: Reboot your router after installing your adapter. Hopefully, that will solve your problem.
P.S. Just for fun, I tried to test what the gentlemen below recommended. I deactivated the wireless adapter on my laptop and installed the A6200 adapter on it and went right next to my router in the basement. By the way, my desktop is 2 floors up. Apart from the small fluctuation you refereed to (i.e., up to 230 Mbps on the 5 GHz), it did not go higher than that. And anyway, I was able to get that 230 Mbps on the 2nd floor. I thus concluded that the distance and walls did not seem to impact the connection much. At least not enough to solve the problem you refer to.
Cheers,
Mus