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X10 R900 5GHz wifi sticks to 802.11/a
My X10 R9000 is stuck to 802.11/a on the 5GHz wifi but my wifi connected devices support 802.11/ac. How do I make X10 R9000 to broadcast 802.11/ac?
X10 is up to date with firmware. Wired speeds are ok - 490Mbs download and 26Mbs upload
ISP provides 500Mb/s download /25Mb/s upload. On 5GHz my wifi connected devices get no more than 25Mb/s download and 25Mb/s upload.
Any ideas?
Hello everyone,
Thank you for your time and efforts in trying to help.
However, I found the solution on another forum: Can't seem to sustain more than 54mbps wireless w/ R7000 | SmallNetBuilder Forums (snbforums.com)
It turns out 802.11 specs that hi throughput rates (anything above 54Mbps) require WMM and WPA2/AES (or no encryption).
I turned on WMM for 5GHz and voila, my SSID is 802.11ac, 80MHz channel width, up to 3467Mbps max speed.
Thank you.
Best to all and good luck
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What do you have your "up to ****" " speeds set to?
Have you done a wifi scan (not with windows built int) to see if its broadcasting on full width?
What device are you testing on?
kpacumup wrote:My X10 R9000 is stuck to 802.11/a on the 5GHz wifi but my wifi connected devices support 802.11/ac. How do I make X10 R9000 to broadcast 802.11/ac?
X10 is up to date with firmware. Wired speeds are ok - 490Mbs download and 26Mbs upload
ISP provides 500Mb/s download /25Mb/s upload. On 5GHz my wifi connected devices get no more than 25Mb/s download and 25Mb/s upload.
Any ideas?
In Advanced -> Setup -> Wireless Setup, do you have smart connect enabled?
If yes, disable it and give each band, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, separate SSIDs so you can distinguish them apart when connecting from your client devices.
Here are snapshot of my R9000 settings and wifi scan by WifiInfo
