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pdes
Oct 12, 2013Guide
No speed improvement with A6200
I have set up my A6200 with Windows 8 and have connectivity with my D6300 on the 5g channel. The Genie window says I have around a 300mb connection but when testing a download from my NAS to my PC, I...
Retired_Member
Oct 15, 2013If the male portion of the port is black, my guess it's not USB3. I'm saying that based on what I've seen, not 100% certain but everyone I've seen to date is blue.
That said your PC is more than likely not a high end or equipped with a newer motherboard with the latest Hard Drive interface SATA III or 6 which is required to see high throughputs.
Throughput and connection rates are two different things and in no way should you equate a fast connection rate to having higher throughput.
I connect all day at 866.7 but throughput from NAS server to wireless PC is usually about 50Mbps and on newest desktop it's about 100 from nas and about peaks over 300 from internal drive to internal drive.