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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.)
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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.
Thanks so much for the thoughts on this!
I've not done a scan of the frequencies nearby - but I'm one of only three visable networks in a new apaprtment building. How do I do a wireless scan? I can use my computer to go through the three networks near me, and using the option key it shows the frequency and channel. The other two are 2.4GHz both on channel 1.
The materals used in the apartment are wallboard and some metal beams? It's brand new - so I can't see it being anything like lath & plaster or things wifi has a hard time going through. The walls in the apaprtment don't have concrete in them from what I can tell. There may be foil insulation somewhere - but I'm quite unsure.
The strength of the Wifi signals I'm getting show the signal is not really being blocked given the RSSI reading is anywhere from -35dBm to -45dBm.
In terms of the NAS device - it is wired in to one of the R8000's ethernet ports.
At this point I can accept the speeds I'm getting over Wifi through speed tests. I think I wasn't anticipating what I precieved to be a huge drop in speeds over Wifi.
I am however dissapointed in the speeds I'm getting connecting to my Qnap NAS over wifi. The NAS is a Qnap TS-431P and the Ethernet port it uses is a Annapurna Gigabit Ethernet adapter. I do understand that reading/writing large amounts of data over wifi is not optimal - but the speeds I'm getting are slower than some basic internet packages.
I feel the bottle-neck in speeds reading and writing to my NAS is the router. I used the BlackMagic Disk Speed test to find out sustained read/write to my network drives over ethernet and over wifi.
The test showed over Wifi the read/write speeds to my NAS were sustained 1-2.5MB/s. Whereas over ethernet I am getting sustained speeds of 95-110MB/s.
To isolate the problem further I connected a standard USB stick to the ReadyShare port on the R8000. Over wifi I get sustained read/writes of 25MB/s +. Over Ethernet it goes up to 70MB/s. This is reasonable and expected.
The NAS is different. Wired of 100MB/s and wireless of 2MB/s? It seems like an excessive drop.
- Quick question. What wireless did you add to the qnap?
I didn't add a wireless card to the NAS. It's wired in via Ethernet to the R8000. That's it's only connection.
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.)