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Re: A6200 installed - results
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A6200 installed - results
I have the R6300 router, and the A6200 adapter installed on a Windows 7 desktop. The R6300 is updated with the latest firmware and located one floor below in my basement and about 50' away. My desktop is the only device connected on the 5G band. Signal strength on the 5G band is fluctuating between 3 and 4 bars. Connection speed is varying and drops as low as 58M and as high as 234M, but seems mostly to stay at 175M. On the 2.4G band, there is a steady 4 bar signal strength with connection speed in the 104-144M range.
Any thoughts on whether this is expected performance? I'm not a network guru, just like having the latest technology. This seems like disappointing performance to me.
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5ghz has less than 2.4ghz which is nature of frequency characteristics .
Probably best thing is to reduce the distance by placing center of the house
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I also just bough the Netgear router R6300 and the A6200 adapter. When I installed my adapter, I had the exact same results as you. Meaning, 144 Mbps for the 2.4 GHz and 175 for the 5 GHz frequency. As you were, and probably still are, I was also very disappointed.
Needless to say, I went to bed very disappointed. But today, when I opened my computer, the speed was surprisingly higher: in average stable at 585 Mbps (the whole day) and sometimes it went up to 702 Mbps when downloading a file. What I should mention is that in the morning, we had a power outage. Hence, the only difference before yesterday and today is that the router was rebooted.
SUGGESTED SOLUTION: Reboot your router after installing your adapter. Hopefully, that will solve your problem.
P.S. Just for fun, I tried to test what the gentlemen below recommended. I deactivated the wireless adapter on my laptop and installed the A6200 adapter on it and went right next to my router in the basement. By the way, my desktop is 2 floors up. Apart from the small fluctuation you refereed to (i.e., up to 230 Mbps on the 5 GHz), it did not go higher than that. And anyway, I was able to get that 230 Mbps on the 2nd floor. I thus concluded that the distance and walls did not seem to impact the connection much. At least not enough to solve the problem you refer to.
Cheers,
Mus
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While the A6200 is backwards compatible with everything from 2.4Ghz 802.11n to aging 802.11b, there is one issue worth mentioning, the NETGEAR supports only up to two streams so the theoretical limit of this 802.11ac USB adapter is 900Mbps. That's almost double the bandwidth of what USB 2.0 can provide.
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soccer0104 wrote: what do you do when it says the NETGEAR A6200 WiFi Adapter is not found?
you have posted new thread here
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=81048
try to keep it on single thread. 🙂
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1. Click Windows Key or Start Logo
2. type services.msc and hit enter
3. Locate and start WLAN Auto Config service
4. Go to Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center
5. Manage wireless networks.
Hopes this helps everyone who tired hours trying to fix it themselves like i did.
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