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ac1200 wifi usb adapter A6150 slow
Hello, please I have ac1200 wifi usb adapter A6150 with a vodafone wifi 6 station ftth network on windows 10 pc i7 processor with 16 gb ram with stick on usb3 and on advanced I entered IEEE 802 11 a/n/ac but the stick surfs at a maximum of 270 instead it should at least reach 1000 or at least 500
Thank you
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What actual link speed is it connecting at?
throughput (actual speed) tends to be around 55-65% of what your link speed is.
And the A6150 is a mini adapter without much antenna size. So its not going to have a great connection back to the router.
Add in distance/obstruction and they aren't that fast of adapters.
Hello, the vodafone wifi 6 station should go to 1000 or 2000, I', only 3 meters from the wifi modem with no obstructions, maybe there's some error in my config? Thanks
It doesn't matter how fast the vodafone is. The A6150 is going to be the bottleneck.
Its a AC1200 device with is 867mbps 5ghz and 300mbps 2.4ghz (they don't combine during usage).
It fastest link speed is going to be 867mbps over 5ghz and that's if you're right next to the router.
And as I said, that's link speed, not actual throughput. Throughput (actual speed) is 55-65% of what the link speed is.
So that maximum you *might* see (with zero interference, sitting right next to the router) is going to be around that 400-500mbps.
Again, that's with zero interference, sitting next to the router, and with nothing else that can cause issues.
Add some distance/obstructions/interference in and the hitting 270mbps is about what you can expect from that device because its a micro-adapter with small antenna in it.
You will not hit 1000+ mbps on that device or even close to it.
