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R8000 has dramatically slower WiFi speeds than wired connection
Hi fourms! I wanted to about others expereinces with wifi speeds on 5GHz Wifi frequency with the R8000. I have a brand-new R8000 running firmware V1.0.4.28_10.1.54 and gigabit fibre to the home...
So it looks like the firmware or router may have been the issue.
I returned the router and exchanged it for the same model. The firmware in the model I got is lower at version V1.0.4.12_10.1.46 rather than the later version I'd updated onto the other router I had.
I ran a few speed tests on this new R8000 - and the speed over wifi nearly matches that of the wired Ethernet now.
I'm happy! sometimes it is simply the hardware (or firmware... I can't say which - so I'll make sure not to update the firmware.)
posted photos don't show for a while because a moderator has to approve them. I'll just go off what you've typed.
Wifi speeds are going to be much slower than hardwired speeds. Most reviewers/wifi specialist believe that under optimal/good conditions, hitting 50% of your link speed is doing pretty good. so if you're hitting 350down/550up, you're kind of hitting good speeds. I have simlar in that I have gigabit and I've never hit more than 550 mbps with a intel 8260 card or tp-link t9e.
Wifi speeds are hard because they're device specific and chipset specific. Not sure what's going on with your qnap but specific device details (chipset, connection specifics) for all your devices help more than just saying my iphone or qnap gets this speed. (btw, if your nas can be hardwired, it should be)
So be specific.
Also, turn your radios back on. The purpose of tri-band is to have 3 radios that aren't interfering with each other so that devices can be spread out over the wireless spectrum. Devices that need more distance, put on the 2.4ghz so they reach further. Their speeds will be less. The 2x 5ghz radios operate in different ends of the spectrum so they won't interfere with each other as well.
Its good to play with beamforming, differnt wifi channels, and QoS. I'd just leave QoS off as once you get past roughly the 500mbps mark, QoS doesn't help much.
Have you done a wireless scan to see which channels are the least congested to optimize channel placement?
other question is home materials? What is your house made of? brick, concrete, and foil lined insulation do great jobs of blocking signals.
As plemans says, wifi speeds can never match wired speeds.
They depend on the wif clients as much as the wifi source. To get a better idea of what your wifi clients can do, try them out on as many different wifi sources as you can get at. Then you will get a better idea of what it can deliver.
As you say, 300-350 mbps down is not bad.