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Slow link speed on my 2.4 band for my Laptop during negotiation?
So, I ordered my Nighthawk lastnight, and somehow got it delivered this morning by 10 AM (yes on a Sunday), deliver within around 12 hours of buying it. Wow, great huh, I was shocked and like a kid ...
- What's the model of the Wi-Fi adapter on your laptop? I'm guessing that it is single stream 802.1n. Such an adapter can only get a link speed of 150 Mbps when using a 40 MHz wide channel. Were you forcing your old router to use 40 MHz? You can try disabling 20/40 MHz coexistence in advanced wireless settings on the Nighthawk. There's no guarantee that those will work. Note: Using 40 MHz channels isn't very neighbor friendly because it consumes 2/3 of available spectrum at 2.4 GHz.
The Realtek RTL8191SE is an interesting adapter in that its theoretical transmit rate is slower than its receive rate (72 Mbps vs 144 Mbps with 20 Mbps channels). I'm guessing that the card reports the transmit rate to Windows.
I doubt that upgrading the driver is going to make much of a difference unless the version you are using has a major bug.
I doubt that upgrading the driver is going to make much of a difference unless the version you are using has a major bug.
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond, with messages of added value. I could have guessed that the driver would not allow for much better performance, but figured it was worth asking for an opinion, thanks again. I am really not suffering that badly by the slower link speed, so I am continuing the "good neighbor" suggestions, and was really just stumped by the fact that the "better router", would negotiate a slower speed than my previous 5+ year old router would. oh well.
Oh yeah, and the link speed is what is being reported from the adapter by windows so, who knows what the real "speed" of the actual connection is at any given time.
Speed test by Ookla is very popular. Just take a look at the advanced setting section of the WiFi card property to see if all is OK.
Device manager >> WiFi card >> property >> advanced setting. There may be some item to tweak. If possible always select
channel 1,6, or 11 which are non-overlapping channels. Never use auto channel selection.
