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stubby's avatar
stubby
Guide
Nov 28, 2018

ex6100 speed stuck at 150mbps

I just completed the setupe for the range extender and have been testing sppeds throughout the house on the old 5g and new ext5g. when in the same room as the router on 5g from router speed is 300m...
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stubby's avatar
stubby
Guide
Nov 29, 2018

router is 802.11n

speed I am reporting is from the wifi access connection

right now 300mbps on 5ghz from router wifi 

and 150mbps when on the ext5g exntender channel

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 29, 2018
stubby wrote:

speed I am reporting is from the wifi access connection

 

That would be the link speed. 

 

Can you try measuring throughput with speedtest.net, and see how that compares?

 

Also, check the link speed again after speedtest.net finishes.