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N600-WNDR3400 Router Speed Issue
Let me start by saying that you may have to explain things to me like in a 5 year old. I have the technical skills of an elderly person who thinks a VCR is moderm technology. Ok, so now that tha...
No the router has hadware limit of 100mb no way around it just you car engine only go so fast the hardware in router have limits too.
So the advertised 300mbps is BS?
To tell the truth no wifi speed will reach the speed on the box the wireless device has to be prefectly match to the router, no other wifi signals around you and many other factors all play a part in your wifi speed on any router.
PerkySourPuss wrote:
So the advertised 300mbps is BS?Not really. It hasn't been explained that well to you so far. Experts sometimes find it hard to step back and get into five-year old mode. Let's have another go.
There are two ways to connect devices to your router, wifi and LAN.
LAN is the wired sockets at the back. A wired connection is usually more reliable than wifi for stuff that you do not move around.
But LAN comes with different speeds. Old school LAN ran at 100 Mbps. If you have a laptop that is a few years old, there is a good chance that it has 100 Mbps LAN. (Fortunately, your laptop doesn't seem to have that issue.) So it will never connect to a wired network at faster than 100 Mbps. Even if your Internet service runs at 100000 Mbps. (That'll be the day.)
On the other hand, your laptop may make a faster connection over wifi. But then only if it has the chips needed to support the faster "5 GHz" wifi bands.
In any case, claims of "Up to 300 Mbps at 5GHz and 145 Mbps at 2.4GHz" – that's what the specs say – are theoretical. Notice that is says up to.
References to your limit of 100 Mbps relate to the LAN bits on the back of the modem. The specification says that this is 100BASE-Tx. That's another way of saying 100 Mbps.
All these bits of 100 Mbps kit were designed and sold long before Internet suppliers got anywhere near that speed with their services. Most of us were lucky to get 8 Mbps.
The manual for your modem is dated March 2010. Technology has moved on a lot since then. Most modern modems will have 100BASE-Tx for their LAN ports.
Time to treat yourself. When you make a choice, you could consult the list of recommended modems from your ISP, if it has one. But be warned that it is probably out of date. If the ISP has a user forum like this you could see what people there suggest. If nothing else, they may have warnings about stuff that has caused problems, or any special configuration needs.
To add one more point about the LAN speeds.
If you check the specifications for your modem, you will see that it has Local: 10/100/1000 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet port.
In other words, this is the "new generation" hardware I mentioned.
Hi I'm interested in this thread as I'm having a very similar issue and have the same modem/router set up that you do.
One point I wanted to make is that the limitation as far as I can see it is that the ports on the router have a hardware limitation of 100Mbps. This is not related to the cable or the wifi it's the port itself. If you read the description information on Amazon, it specifically describes the ports as fast 100mb ports. So you will never get your 200Mbps when connected directly.
On the other hand I'm still baffled by the Wifi issue. I'm seeing max rates of 40Mbps for my Wifi connection speeds. I'm in the same room with no walls or interference and I've tested all my devices and get the same limitation. The information for the wifi speed is documented as 300+300 Mbps.
billn11791 wrote:
On the other hand I'm still baffled by the Wifi issue. I'm seeing max rates of 40Mbps for my Wifi connection speeds.
Apart from the fact that 40 Mbps is good for some wifi clients, and that the quoted speeds are marketing magic rather than science, if you are checking connection speeds with anything that uses the Internet, you have already answered the question.
The fastest you will get on the WNDR3400 is less than 100 Mbps. The wifi can be as fast as it likes between the client and the router, but nothing is going to come in or out faster than 100 Mbps. Probably less given the usual overheads.
The WNDR3400 first launched in 2010, is ancient. The Internet, and the equipment on it, has changed a lot over those years.
