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whc
Nov 28, 2016Aspirant
Slow transfer speed on new router, what could be wrong?
Got a new router today, trying to replace my Airport Extreme, got the TP-LINK Archer C3200 on black friday sale, triband with smart connect. Sounded good. But im experiencing allot slower both re...
StephenB
Nov 28, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Your Airport Extreme should be AC1300, the TP Link is AC1300 on each ot the two 5 Ghz bands. But your PC can only use one of these bands at a time.
Multiple clients: A PC, your phone, a tablet, etc all accessing the NAS at the same time. SmartConnect would allow some of these devices to connect on band-1, the others to connect to band-2. That would increase throughput if they were all using the WiFi at the same time.
You could try connecting to the tp-link on channel 44 instead of channel 100, and see if that helps.
whc
Nov 28, 2016Aspirant
Strange, rebooted my mac, and now seems faster on TP-LINK.
TP-Link:
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