If you live in a busy neighborhood with lots of wireless networks, then moving everything to the 5GHz band may be your only choice. If your clients are a long way from your router or the signal has to penetrate walls, floors, AC ducting, etc, then the only way to get it better is to add more Access Points that are closer to your client devices. #3 Your issues may be basic attenuation or channel congestion. Wireless communication is a 2-way street and if one side is garbage, it doesn't matter how loudly the router is yelling. I find it laughable If you are using the world's greatest router but the wireless adapters are weak and can't communicate back to the router at a decent rate, then it won't make much difference. #2 Just getting a 'faster' router will often do nothing to resolve speed issues. If your laptop or wireless adapter doesn't specify "dual-band" or "5GHz" then it won't see your 5GHz network. The vast majority of wireless N equipment is still 2.4GHz only. #1 Wireless N is a data transfer standard and runs on both the 2.4GHz & 5GHz band. My other problem is all my laptops and wireless adaptors that supposedly are wireless N can only see my 2.4GHz network, but my iphone has never had any problems seeing the 5GHz network.Ĭlick to expand.Sounds like you are missing a lot of basic information about wireless networking. There is no way I'm gonna be able to stream uncompressed HD or 4K with these kind of wireless speeds from the supposed fastest wireless router. Seems like for $300 I got a router that's like 15% faster than an el-cheapo router.
Is 2.4GHz band just really slow or what? Seems like I'm maxing out at around 16-20MBps.
However with 2.4GHz wireless transfers to and from USB 3.0 network drives with the new Asus router I'm still only getting about 2-2.5MB/s, download speeds on my laptop seem to max out around 1.5MB/s, which is slightly faster than 1.1-1.3MB/s I was getting on my old Netgear. I read reviews and supposedly the Asus RT-AC87R router was supposed to be the "fastest wireless router!!!111" My wired internet is Comcast which usually gets 8-9 MB/s download (aka 60-80MBps).
I've been suffering from slow streaming from Netflix and uploading files to network drives wirelessly (only getting about 2MB/s). I just bought a Asus RT-AC87R router, upgraded from a el cheaper $40 Netgear N600 router.