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scythefwd
Aug 09, 2020Aspirant
Need some troubleshooting help with r6400v2 and linux
Bought a r6400v2 yesterday and got it configured as I wanted it. Log into my windows laptop, and speedtest is showing 100M down and 116M up 3 ft from the router. 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz both.. I run a ...
- Aug 09, 2020
appears to have been a channel issue. The router was defaulting to something like channel 153 and channel 11. I reconfigured it to channel 2 for 2.4ghz and 116(dfs) for 5ghz and now I'm seeing appropriate connection speeds. My 5G is actually showing the 100M up and down that I pay for..
My android shows 70+ (not bad for those small mobile anenna's)
My MBP shows 75ish (the android and the mbp are still on 2.4Ghz, I see similar on my ubuntu as well on 2.4Ghz)
All of this after a reset to factory, down grade firmware (no change), reset to factory, upgrade firmware, reset to factory (again, no change), get my configs on there, and then I messed with the channels (because who doesn't do that first.. duh.. sall good, shes working right now)
scythefwd
Aug 09, 2020Aspirant
appears to have been a channel issue. The router was defaulting to something like channel 153 and channel 11. I reconfigured it to channel 2 for 2.4ghz and 116(dfs) for 5ghz and now I'm seeing appropriate connection speeds. My 5G is actually showing the 100M up and down that I pay for..
My android shows 70+ (not bad for those small mobile anenna's)
My MBP shows 75ish (the android and the mbp are still on 2.4Ghz, I see similar on my ubuntu as well on 2.4Ghz)
All of this after a reset to factory, down grade firmware (no change), reset to factory, upgrade firmware, reset to factory (again, no change), get my configs on there, and then I messed with the channels (because who doesn't do that first.. duh.. sall good, shes working right now)