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A6210 no AC connection , only N
Hi,
My A6210 does not connect to my router in AC mode.
Only in N.
I am on Windows 10 x64.
I notice it now because i just got a 1Gb fiber connection and the bandwich is not as it should be.
This occurs only with A6210 because friends on their laptops connect in AC with the built-in wifi chip.
I tried to install latest firmware/softawre but nothing changes.
Here is a screenshot of the task manager :
Please advice.
Thanks
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It could be a bug in the Task Manager. Go to Network and Sharing Control Panel and click on the blue link for your Wi-Fi network. IIRC, this will display the connection status and, possibly, the protocol. If you are running Windows 10, then I believe the protocol is also displayed in Settings->Wi-Fi, somewhere.
If you find that the adapter is truly using only N, then go to the driver settings and see if there are any options to use AC.
Hi
Sorry for late reply i have been on holidays for 3 weeks and be back in a few days at home.
Wherever in Windows I look it's a N WiFi connection I have.
I don't recall seeing such a parameter in the driver settings.
I have an Asus RT-AC68U router and as stated above friends get AC connection so the router is fine I think.
I am pretty sure I am in N connection because friends have way better bandwidth speed compared to what i have with my Netgear A6210.
I made tests from the same room in my house and good WiFi signal.
What is your router? Is it set up to use -ac mode on wireless?
I think OP has already stated that others connect as -ac so it sounds like the network is correctly set to handle the -ac protocol. This sounds like the already known and still unaddressed issue where the A6210 reports back as -n on Windows 10 even when connected to an -ac network. There is supposedly an alpha software patch floating around but this issue seems to be known already by Netgear but not resolved.
Hi All,
Please PM me your contact info if you have issues showing incorrect mode even when connected to an AC router
JamesGL
Community Team
I come back here to give a few feedbacks after some tests i have made.
Despite seeing 802.11n in task manager , i think my a6210 is in fact connected in AC mode as i can see in the wifi network details that i am connected at 866mbits to my asus router.
But there is one thing i don't understand is why i can't go faster than 300mbits when testing my connection speed with online tools.
I read that it could be related to my a6210 running in usb2, but it is not the case.
With usbtreeviewer i see it is connected to a usb3 port.When i connect through ethernet to my router i get speed tests above 700mbits, i have a 1Gb fiber connection.
I would expect to have better speed in wifi with the a6210.
But still i find it disturbing as 300mbits is the 802.11n max speed rate.
Anyone can help me to go faster than 300mbit please ?
- TL;DR 300 Mbps is pretty normal out of a 867 Mbps Wi-Fi connection.
Unlike Ethernet, Wi-Fi link speed (the connection rate reported by Windows) and throughput (the real world, actual speed) are very different. The reason is that Wi-Fi requires a lot of overhead. A rule of thumb is to expect throughput no better than 50% of the link speed. It will frequently be worse than that. 300 is 34% of 867, which is pretty typical.
While Wi-Fi is great and convenient, if you want the best, most reliable performance, use Ethernet.
