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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...
I'll bet pdes's port on this laptop (I assume) is a combination E-SATA / USB2.0 port, I have one of these on my Toshiba laptop. I looks like an E-SATA port but it also has the socket for USB connection.
I have an A6200 Wifi Adaptor and an R6300v2 router, not the D6300 cable modem/wifi router pdes has. The D6300 is an AC1600 device (300/1300). Some reviews on the net say the 2.4Ghz performance on this (the D6300) router is fairly poor, but pdes problem is with the 5Ghz.
I can get an AC 866.7Mbps link rate to my router but my file transfer speeds according to Windows 7 are 20MBps to 24MBps (or 160Mbps to 200Mbps), far from the rate of USB2.0 speeds of 480Mb (or 60MB). Windows is reporting (via task manager) network utilization of about 25 to 26 percent. This file is a 38GB M2TS file coming from a Synology DS1812+ NAS. I can transfer files to and from the NAS using gigabit LAN at 100MBps to 120MBps.
Hooking the WiFi adaptor into my desktop computer via USB2.0 or USB3.0 makes no difference, the speeds are the same.
The A6200 adapter must have some hardware bottleneck (or my R6300v2 router must have some setting wrong) for it to only reach less than half of USB2.0 transfer speeds.
The A6200 adapter is capable of only 867Mbps on the 5Ghz AC side whereas these routers (both the R6300v2 and the D6300) are capable of 1300Gbps.
searay warned me before I bought the A6200 not to expect miracles and I didn't. I did get a slight transfer rate improvement over my laptops built in wireless, but not the NetGear advertised improvement. If you have a fairly new higher end laptop you may not see any improvement in transfer speeds using an external USB WiFi adapter verses the built in one.
Long story short, you should be getting a lot better than you are, but don't expect the final result to be a huge difference from your laptop's built in wireless.
Good Luck
Question???
For the veterans here, is the D6300 about the same as the R6300v1, i.e. does it have the same issues???
I have an A6200 Wifi Adaptor and an R6300v2 router, not the D6300 cable modem/wifi router pdes has. The D6300 is an AC1600 device (300/1300). Some reviews on the net say the 2.4Ghz performance on this (the D6300) router is fairly poor, but pdes problem is with the 5Ghz.
I can get an AC 866.7Mbps link rate to my router but my file transfer speeds according to Windows 7 are 20MBps to 24MBps (or 160Mbps to 200Mbps), far from the rate of USB2.0 speeds of 480Mb (or 60MB). Windows is reporting (via task manager) network utilization of about 25 to 26 percent. This file is a 38GB M2TS file coming from a Synology DS1812+ NAS. I can transfer files to and from the NAS using gigabit LAN at 100MBps to 120MBps.
Hooking the WiFi adaptor into my desktop computer via USB2.0 or USB3.0 makes no difference, the speeds are the same.
The A6200 adapter must have some hardware bottleneck (or my R6300v2 router must have some setting wrong) for it to only reach less than half of USB2.0 transfer speeds.
The A6200 adapter is capable of only 867Mbps on the 5Ghz AC side whereas these routers (both the R6300v2 and the D6300) are capable of 1300Gbps.
searay warned me before I bought the A6200 not to expect miracles and I didn't. I did get a slight transfer rate improvement over my laptops built in wireless, but not the NetGear advertised improvement. If you have a fairly new higher end laptop you may not see any improvement in transfer speeds using an external USB WiFi adapter verses the built in one.
Long story short, you should be getting a lot better than you are, but don't expect the final result to be a huge difference from your laptop's built in wireless.
Good Luck
Question???
For the veterans here, is the D6300 about the same as the R6300v1, i.e. does it have the same issues???