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How can I get 750 speed?
I recently added the R7000 as an access point so that I can start building an 802.11ac wireless network. A SRXN3205 provides the main router functionality as well as a separate 802.11n wireless LAN at 5 GHz band for non-ac clients. To this set up, I added the EX6100 hoping to provide better throughput to a media PC that has been using 802.11n (Trendnet TEW-684UB rated at 450mbps) via USB 2.0. Both R7000 and EX6100 has been updated to the latest firmware. The EX6100 has been configured using Fastlane technology with devices to the extender operating in 2.4GHz band while extender to the R7000 running in 5GHz band. With the EX6100 now next to the media PC, I can use its wired Ethernet port (Intel gigabit). To my surprise, the switch to the 802.11ac actually slowed down the media PC connection. I did a transfer test of a 7 GB file from the media PC to a ReadyNAS and the transfer speed using the Trendnet USB 802.11n hit 13.5 Mbps while the transfer speed for the same file using the wired connection through the EX6100 maxed out at 8 Mbps. The distance between the media PC to SRXN3205 is 30 feet while the distance between the EX6100 and R7000 is only 12 feet.
How do I know the EX6100 and R7000 is connecting at 802.11ac mode? The connection speed on the EX6100 registered only 390Mbps and during the file transfer test, that speed actually dropped to 350 Mpbs. Using the Fastlane technology, I cannot set any parameters for the connection between EX6100 and R7000. How can I get maximum throughput (750 Mbps) on the EX6100?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
How do I know the EX6100 and R7000 is connecting at 802.11ac mode? The connection speed on the EX6100 registered only 390Mbps and during the file transfer test, that speed actually dropped to 350 Mpbs. Using the Fastlane technology, I cannot set any parameters for the connection between EX6100 and R7000. How can I get maximum throughput (750 Mbps) on the EX6100?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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- Read up on how each device works and start over. You need to understand what channels you're using too. Typically when you use repeats or extenders you're lucky to see half. That 750 for the ex6100 is including 2.4.
Running to separate 5g networks will also be a problem unless you're using separate channels. The 7000 @ 1300 uses 4 channels - Thanks for your suggestion. For the 5 GHz networks, 802.11n is running on channel 48 on SRXN3205 while 802.11ac is running on channel 157 on R7000. Based on your comment, I further tweaked EX6100 and disabled its WiFi access point functions so it will not have any wireless clients and provide just the wired connection for the media PC only. Transfer speed did improve to 10.2 Mbps max. I am still disappointed that I am not getting at least the same speed using the Trendnet 802.11n USB device.
