Recent content by Farley

No, I haven't tried the router reset yet, after @glens reminded me that I could trick the router by giving the laptop a different MAC address. I will probably still try it when I have a bit of time. My old router was an RT-AC86U, and speeds were about 50% better with that, doing the same read...

Thanks, and it made no difference, so I guess (as I suspected) I was clutching at straws. I also opened up the laptop to have a closer look at the WiFi card, which was indeed on the motherboard. To my untrained eye, there was nothing wrong with the connections to the antennas. Laptop is only...

Makes sense now... https://pastebin.com/cjYTHGEd

Oh, it was just that... I did previously (on the old router) set the T490 to low priority in the QoS settings, and then I think I noticed at some stage that I had accidentally carried it over to the new router. Even though I fixed it in the router gui, I wonder if maybe something is still wrong...

Here's the output of the first two commands (with the signal readings taken a room or so away from the router, with at least one brick wall in between). Sorry, I don't understand the third command. https://pastebin.com/28m6dUW0

Right, that's what I was doing, and it made no difference to the speed of reading from the NAS when I booted Linux Mint off a faster USB drive (still 31 MB/s). What did help to some extent was choosing the FTP option in Linux to read off the NAS instead of "file sharing" (presumably SMB). Using...

It does report 866 when it's in the same room as the router. In other rooms the link speeds (and dBm values from the router) look solid compared to other devices on the LAN, so this seems to suggest there is nothing wrong with the antennas, or do I misunderstand something?

Sadly, this didn't make any difference to the amazingly consistent 15 MB/s download speed. For a moment, after I looked at the laptop's power settings, I thought I'd made a schoolboy error, because the Windows power scheme for "on battery" included "Moderate" power savings for the WiFi (even...

I did this today... On Linux the laptop can read a large file from the NAS at almost 31 MB/s, roughly twice the speed it gets under Windows 10. So this suggests a Windows problem? I missed this question, but it can read from the NAS at about 65 MB/s over ethernet, so I assume the NAS is not the...

Yes, I came to that conclusion too. There are one or two threads on reddit where people are bemoaning this "madness", which I agree with. Thanks for all the various suggestions. I worked through most of them today that if I hadn't already tried, but not yet Linux Mint. The speed I get is...

Thanks for all the replies that came in while I was asleep... (I am in Perth, Australia, and am 13 hours ahead of the east coast of the US. :) 1. I am using the Intel Driver Support Assistant, but will try rolling back to the latest one recommended by Lenovo, just in case that helps. (I have a...

22.190.0.4 (from Intel)

Thanks for your reply... I tried an older (and cheaper) Lenovo E480, which is able to get much better transfer speeds to and from the NAS, even though it has what I always assumed to be an inferior Realtek WiFi adapter. So it does appear that the bottleneck is the Intel AC 9560 on the T490, or...

Happy New Year everyone... I have a Lenovo T490 with an Intel AC 9560 WiFi card. My main router is an Asus GT-AX6000, running the latest Merlin firmware. My internet connection is only 100/20 FTTN/VDSL, but I regularly do large file transfers between the laptop and an (admittedly, old)...

If it bothers you enough to spend a few dollars on a cheap N300 range extender, something like this TP-Link device might help: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0776QG4P8/. I had a similar but different problem with a pair of "smart" power sockets at the back of the yard, and I got out of trouble...