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We recently upgraded our internet from 50Mbps to 200Mbps, however I cannot get our Nighthawk to transmit more than 40-50. I've turned off QoS (WMM is still on) and went through all of the channel options. I have 2.4 and 5 turned on (same SSID) but still no change. The Nighthawk sits in the middle of our house with only 1 wall between my laptop and the Router, so I believe interferance isn't enough to cause a 75% loss. Thoughts?
We recently upgraded our internet from 50Mbps to 200Mbps, however I cannot get our Nighthawk to transmit more than 40-50. I've turned off QoS (WMM is still on) and went through all of the channel options. I have 2.4 and 5 turned on (same SSID) but still no change. The Nighthawk sits in the middle of our house with only 1 wall between my laptop and the Router, so I believe interferance isn't enough to cause a 75% loss. Thoughts?
What did you have before? How are you measuring this? Wireless? If so, what speed, G, N, or AC? Are you testing on a wired PC? Connect the wired PC to the modem, what do you get?
For experienced users using same SSID is a bad idea because you don't know which network or band you're using. The router is only part of it, Your clients are just as important to realize higher speeds. What are they? What security setting are you using.
I don't believe that card is even 5g capable so your speeds are not going to be much better using wifi. Using 2.4 set to 289 you might see low 70's if sitting in same room as router provided your using WPA2 security
I originally had them set different, but read somewhere to try and set them as the same and then use the "Enable Smart Connect" to potentially improve the connection. I've turned that off (and turned off the 5GHz SSID) and set the Mode to 289 Mbps. Still getting the same results as before.
As for clients we have laptops, cell phones, TVs and other minor items running over the wifi.
I am getting 239 Mbps at the router, but still only 40-50 through wifi.
Well, wired gives full speed, so I assume that the bottleneck is the wireless adapter. You could try another, find a place, like Staples, that allows free returns, and get a USB wireless adapter and check. Disable the on-board wireless during the test if you want to do that.
