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Not getting 300mbps on N600 WNDR3400v3
I have searched and searched on these discussion boards, and everything tells me that the speed of my router (N600 WNDR3400v3) doesn't get to the advertized 300+300mbps that it says on the box. Right...
As per the WNDR3400v3 Data Sheet "Five (5) 10/100 (1 WAN and 4 LAN) Fast Ethernet ports with auto-sensing technology" as well as the fine N600 Wireless Dual Band Router Model WNDR3400v3 User Manual p.12 "Four local area networks (LAN) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
ports for connecting the router to your local computers.", p.106 Internet connection, ..., Port speed 10/100 Mbps Autosensing ... there are only Fast Ethernet ports (100 Mbit/s) - so the total Internet traffic you experience (100 minus some protocol overhead) is about all what you can expect.The 300 Mbit/s wireless PHY rate would allow slightly more over the air under ideal conditions, while concurrently talking to the Internet and multiple LAN ports, but it's more a theoretical number.
As per the WNDR3400v3 Data Sheet "Five (5) 10/100 (1 WAN and 4 LAN) Fast Ethernet ports with auto-sensing technology" as well as the fine N600 Wireless Dual Band Router Model WNDR3400v3 User Manual p.12 "Four local area networks (LAN) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
ports for connecting the router to your local computers.", p.106 Internet connection, ..., Port speed 10/100 Mbps Autosensing ... there are only Fast Ethernet ports (100 Mbit/s) - so the total Internet traffic you experience (100 minus some protocol overhead) is about all what you can expect.
The 300 Mbit/s wireless PHY rate would allow slightly more over the air under ideal conditions, while concurrently talking to the Internet and multiple LAN ports, but it's more a theoretical number.
schumaku wrote:
As per the WNDR3400v3 Data Sheet "Five (5) 10/100 (1 WAN and 4 LAN) Fast Ethernet ports with auto-sensing technology" as well as the fine N600 Wireless Dual Band Router Model WNDR3400v3 User Manual p.12 "Four local area networks (LAN) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
ports for connecting the router to your local computers.", p.106 Internet connection, ..., Port speed 10/100 Mbps Autosensing ... there are only Fast Ethernet ports (100 Mbit/s) - so the total Internet traffic you experience (100 minus some protocol overhead) is about all what you can expect.The 300 Mbit/s wireless PHY rate would allow slightly more over the air under ideal conditions, while concurrently talking to the Internet and multiple LAN ports, but it's more a theoretical number.
Thanks for the reply. So if I understand correctly, when I'm connected to the router and getting high speed internet, the 300mbps is saying that the router can handle, say 5 devices, each downloading at like 50mbps or some ballpark number like that. It doesn't mean that I should be able to do a speed test and get the max speed that I'm paying for up to 300mbps. Is that correct?
I feel like that is a little misleading on netgear's side if that's the case. I guess you still have to read the fine print to know what you're actually buying.
Well, I'm not Netgear. The max Internet data rate is 100 Mbit/s (minus some protocol overhead) on this router. No way to see 300. Similar, each LAN connection can't exceed 100 Mbit/s, so again, same limitaiton. Marketing wise, the router is promoted as N600, this does translate to 300 Mbit 802.11n on 2.4 GHz and 300 Mbit/s 802.11g on 5 GHz. Each wireless can reach some more than the 100 Mbit/s, e.g. for talking to multiple devices on the LAN and/or the Internet concurently. Afraid, that's it - and yes, I had to check the documentation, too.