I made an account to see if anyone has any ideas since you guys seem to be pretty knowledgeable. I expect to get about half of the reported link rates and I am not able to achieve anything above 200 Mbps using Lan Test, iperf, or wget transfers.
I recently upgraded my main router hardware to the Asus RT AC3200. I'm using my old RT AC66U as a media bridge. I am getting very disappointing wireless speeds between the two Asus AC devices (really all my devices but to simplify the testing I figured this media bridge is the best to analyze and compare). Here are the details:
Both routers are on the 2/3/2017 version of Asus Merlin firmware with mostly default wireless settings. The Media bridge is connected to the 5GHz-2 channel 149 / 80 Mghz band of the AC3200. The AC66U is reporting a link rate of 1300 Mbps and RSSI of -40 dBm. Should be good right? What would guys expect as a real life Mbps?
I haven't setup Download Master on the routers to try iperf, but I am testing with wget directly on the router hardware to eliminate any other machine thin pipe issues. My test consists of downloading a video file on a local web server.
I SSH directly into the AC66U and download a test video file hosted on a web server on my LAN:
wget 192.168.0.61/21.avi -O /dev/null
=> 12.0MB/s in 56s
Downloading the same file through an SSH terminal on my wired NAS:
wget 192.168.0.61/21.avi -O /dev/null
=> 81.1MB/s in 9.3s
So what gives? The link speed and connection are reporting fantastic numbers. Why can't I seem to realize their potential? Is AC just this slow, or this there a magic setting I am missing? Is there some way to make use of the 160Mhz channel bandwidth of the AC3200?
Thanks for taking the time to help. Totally stunned and disappointed by my AC devices and really hope one of you experts can provide some insight.
I recently upgraded my main router hardware to the Asus RT AC3200. I'm using my old RT AC66U as a media bridge. I am getting very disappointing wireless speeds between the two Asus AC devices (really all my devices but to simplify the testing I figured this media bridge is the best to analyze and compare). Here are the details:
Both routers are on the 2/3/2017 version of Asus Merlin firmware with mostly default wireless settings. The Media bridge is connected to the 5GHz-2 channel 149 / 80 Mghz band of the AC3200. The AC66U is reporting a link rate of 1300 Mbps and RSSI of -40 dBm. Should be good right? What would guys expect as a real life Mbps?
I haven't setup Download Master on the routers to try iperf, but I am testing with wget directly on the router hardware to eliminate any other machine thin pipe issues. My test consists of downloading a video file on a local web server.
I SSH directly into the AC66U and download a test video file hosted on a web server on my LAN:
wget 192.168.0.61/21.avi -O /dev/null
=> 12.0MB/s in 56s
Downloading the same file through an SSH terminal on my wired NAS:
wget 192.168.0.61/21.avi -O /dev/null
=> 81.1MB/s in 9.3s
So what gives? The link speed and connection are reporting fantastic numbers. Why can't I seem to realize their potential? Is AC just this slow, or this there a magic setting I am missing? Is there some way to make use of the 160Mhz channel bandwidth of the AC3200?
Thanks for taking the time to help. Totally stunned and disappointed by my AC devices and really hope one of you experts can provide some insight.