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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.
The original WNDR3400 dates back to 2010. It was never a powerful router and the technology has moved on a lot since then. For a start, they phased out 100BASE-Tx LAN and WAN some years ago.
Your wifi speeds also depend on the clients you are using.
Then there is the fact that wifi standards are just that, standards rather than anything you will see in the real world.