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jbodine74

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I have a Asus rt-ac3100 which I love. I downloaded wifi explorer for the mac which shows all networks nearby and their speeds, etc. My router only show a max rate of 600 Mbps on 2.4 GHz and 1733 Mbps on 5 GHz. The rt-ac3100 should be showing 1000 Mbps and 2165 Mbps. How do you get wifi explorer to show the max rates of 1000 on 2.4 GHz and 2165 on 5 GHz. I just want to see it, I do not care if I can achieve this or not. Does it have to do with my mac only being able to get 45o Mbps on 5GHz or is it something else?
 

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How do you get wifi explorer to show the max rates of 1000 on 2.4 GHz and 2165 on 5 GHz.

By telling its authors to detect those non-standard MCS modes.

(in short: it's the scanning software that decides what link rates to report, the values aren't provided by the router).
 
Seeing the same issue here with the RT-AC3100, using inssider is there another application I could use?
 
By telling its authors to detect those non-standard MCS modes.

(in short: it's the scanning software that decides what link rates to report, the values aren't provided by the router).

With WiFi Explorer - he depends on what CoreWLAN reports, as the app uses the Apple frameworks - CoreWLAN pushes up what the chipset driver reports.

Not the author, it's Apple - and since these rates are non-standard, it's not a big deal ;)
 
By telling its authors to detect those non-standard MCS modes.

Eric - you know my thoughts on non-standard MCS rates in any event - it does tend to cause interop issues... as there are clients that just don't want to play there.

Broadcom has the options for interoperability, but Asus and other vendors - chasing marketing numbers, turn the volume knob up to eleven...

Case in point - Linksys WRT1900ac to Asus USB-AC56 - turn on turbo, the usb nic won't connect in 2.4GHz- is it Linksys or Asus (or Marvell or Realtek) that has a problem? Put the Linky into B/G/N mode, and suddenly it connects...

It's actually both - Realtek sees non-standard MCS one way, Marvell sees it another, and Broadcom sees it as yet one more way...

FWIW - the USB-AC56 does work with the WRT-1900ac in 5GHz, and there it works quite well
 

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