I setup my R6300 a couple months back and have been using it in conjunction with the N900 USB adapter and getting pretty reasonable speeds. I recently got the A6200 adapter and connecting to the same network, I'm limited to connecting at only 54Mbps. If I switch back to the other adapter, the speeds go up. I'm running Windows 8 and using the latest Windows 8 Beta driver. Any insight as to what's going on?

Are you connecting with the same security type settings as you was with the older adapter?

what band are you conneting on? 2.4 or 5?How far and how many walls are you going thru?

I've tried connecting on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands both yield the same results. As mentioned, the 5GHz band will go upwards of 166Mbs but it won't with this adapter. For this setup I'm one floor up and a room over. Not a very far distance. I just can't seem to cross the 54Mbs speed with the AC adapter, but the N900 works fine!

I know this is probably not ideal, but can you try connecting with that same system (or at least same adapter / similar setup), in the same room? This way you can see if the adapter and driver is working properly, or maybe it's just a advanced driver setting wrong in the driver properties?

believe there is issues on windows 8 on 5Ghz ( driver related... but there is answered on 5Ghz issues)I'm limited to connecting at only 54Mbps.You are using WPA2 encryption?

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jmizoguchi
Virtuoso
Jan 01, 2013
WMM is necessary for achieving higher Mbps.

If you go Wikipedia and you can read about WMM
rsalinger
Tutor
Jan 03, 2013
While this solved the connection issue, when transferring large files to my NAS, it only transfers around 512/728kbs (even though my connection is around 525Mbs). While using my N900 adapter I would get around 25MBs transfer.

Any thoughts?
VV00Dy
Aspirant
Dec 04, 2014
jmizoguchi wrote:
WMM is necessary for achieving higher Mbps.

If you go Wikipedia and you can read about WMM

This may be true for the A6200 because it fixed this issue for me but this reason is crap.

I have a laptop with a Killer Networks Wireless-N 1202 which connects to my Netgear R7000 Nighthawk ac router at 5Ghz just fine at full speed of 300Mbps with WMM disabled. The A6200 won't go past 54Mbps like this but clearly it's not a protocol limitation rather than a limitation of Netgear products.

I've played with this a bunch of different ways with both devices sitting on the same desk and the Netgear products just don't perform as well.

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