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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?
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.
