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A8000 capped speed
I have tried just about everything under the sun for this, so help would be nice.
I am paying for 2Gbps from my ISP and I do not expect to recieve that on the adapter but it does say the adapter is rated for 1.2Gpbs. On my 5GHz network I get 500Mbps maximum, and on my 6GHz network i'm getting around 350Mbps. I had a TP-Link high gain USB adapter previously and was getting consistently over 1Gbps.
I have updated the firmware, repaired the firmware, turned off power saving, etc. Made sure it is indeed plugged into the USB 3.0 port. For the 5 and 6GHz networks the only option on settings is 20MHz but it seems that the A8000 is capable of 80MHz somehow... but I cannot figure it out. What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks.
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spooneroni wrote:
I am paying for 2Gbps from my ISP and I do not expect to recieve that on the adapter but it does say the adapter is rated for 1.2Gpbs. On my 5GHz network I get 500Mbps maximum, and on my 6GHz network i'm getting around 350Mbps. I had a TP-Link high gain USB adapter previously and was getting consistently over 1Gbps.
You can pay your ISP for a gazillion Gbps, but WiFi will never deliver what you see with wired connections.
This might be a useful read:
You don't say what delivers wifi to your A8000, but 500 Mbps is pretty good for most wifi devices. What are you doing that needs more than that?
Just another user with time on their hands.
- It’s less about what I need and more about why I am not getting the speeds advertised on the device. If I was fine with 500Mbps then I could have spent less money on a different WiFi adapter haha.
But for what it’s worth, I am a photographer and videographer and frequently download and send very large files. I am also a gamer and games tend to be very large but I don’t download games as much as I send/receive very large files for my job.
May just have to run another 50ft Ethernet I suppose. Just a bummer that the TP-Link one worked (until it didn’t) and the netgear couldn’t compete.
spooneroni wrote:
It’s less about what I need and more about why I am not getting the speeds advertised on the device. If I was fine with 500Mbps then I could have spent less money on a different WiFi adapter haha.Marketing people have a habit of using numbers that no one ever sees. They lump together different "speeds" and make them look like one large number. Then there is the gotcha that connection speed between two devices is not the same as traffic throughput.
Hence the link I provided.
We still don't know where the USB adapter gets its wifi from.
Just another user with time on their hands.
