AC66U - Merlin 376.45 Firmware - Slow on 2.4ghz

[JoshFink]

My wife has been telling me for weeks that her internet was slow. She works on her laptop and only on wireless. I kept testing from my wired computer, DOH! and kept telling her she was crazy.

Regardless, I finally broke down and checked and low and behold on the 2.4 frequency we get about 1.5 - 3Mbps down and on the 5ghz we get 55Mbps.

I figured rather than taking her laptop over and over I would just use my iPhone 5S. Same issue.

So something is up.

I did a site survey and found 2 networks around it on Channel 1 but with low signal. Regardless, I moved the channel to 11.

Wireless Mode : Auto
Channel Bandwidth : 20/40
Control Channel : 11
Extension Channel : Below
AuthN Method : WPA2-Personal
Encryption : AES

Transmit Power 100%

According to the signal strength on the laptop I'm getting:
RSSI -56
Noise -95

I'm about 8 feet away right now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Josh

 

[JoshFink]

Here is what it's showing under the wireless log while I just did a speedtest and had a download of 0.88Mbps and an upload of 11.53Mbps

SSID: "FINK"
RSSI: 0 dBm SNR: 0 dB noise: -78 dBm Channel: 11
BSSID: 60:A4:4CD:F7:A0 Capability: ESS ShortSlot
Supported Rates: [ 1(b) 2(b) 5.5(b) 6 9 11(b) 12 18 24 36 48 54 ]
HT Capable:
Chanspec: 2.4GHz channel 11 20MHz (0x100b)
Primary channel: 11
HT Capabilities:
Supported MCS : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]

Mode : AP Only

Stations (flags: P=Powersave Mode, S=Short GI, T=STBC, A=Associated, U=Authenticated)
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MAC IP Address Name RSSI Rx/Tx Rate Connected Flags
A4:67:06:20:B0:F6 192.168.1.203 IPad-Judy -59dBm ??/1 Mbps 00:27:20 PAU
B8:E8:56:C2:39:A0 192.168.1.85 Josh-5S -46dBm 24/5 Mbps 00:27:35 PAU

 

[kiripe]

I'm also experiencing problems with 2.4 GHz speeds on this fw version.

Timeouts, dropouts, etc. I will try going back a few versions to see if it cures the hickup

 

[JoshFink]

Anyone have any ideas on this? Very frustrating.

Thanks

Josh

Just realized that maybe this should be in the Merlin Forum.