Hi,
I recently upgraded to Bell 1 gigabit fibre service and getting full 1.14 Gbps to my modem. The modem/router is Home Hub 3000 (Sagemcom). Connecting with Ethernet gives me around 950 Mbps. But with Wifi on 5Ghz it's been limited to around 200-250 Mbps on all my AC devices. My upload speed is around 400-700 Mbps.
So, I bought the AC86U and was hoping it gives me better Wifi Performance. I connected it to the modem using Ethernet and PPPoE session. I get around 900-950 Mbps on the router using Ethernet. But again, the Wifi from the AC86U is limited to 200-250 Mbps. My upload speed is around 400-700 Mbps.
I tested using official firmware and then Merlin's.
I'm not expecting 1Gbps on Wifi, but maybe something around 400-500 Mbps would be nice.
Here are some info and things I've tried.
1) I live in a condo and everyone now has the same 1 Gig service and modem. Please see picture. Mine is the Asus_5G.
2) I tried every combination of 20/40/80 and channel on the router. Everything is worse than the default of Auto settings which I think settles on 80 and channel 157.
3) My 2 wifi devices are Asus rog laptop with AC8260 and Galaxy S9+. You can see from the picture, they connect at 866+ Mbps.
4) I'm doing my tests with client right next to router.
5) I'm testing on Ookla. Testing on DSLReports HTML5 speed test site gives me better results at around 350 Mbps
6) I've disabled Windows Defender, windows firewall, Router's firewall, nothing changed.
I guess I want to know where the bottle neck here is:
1) Congestion? If I choose a channel that no one else is using, is there still congestion because of all the other channels being congested?
2) Any settings I need to change on the AC86U?
3) Are my clients limited in their Wifi speeds?
Any help is appreciated.
I recently upgraded to Bell 1 gigabit fibre service and getting full 1.14 Gbps to my modem. The modem/router is Home Hub 3000 (Sagemcom). Connecting with Ethernet gives me around 950 Mbps. But with Wifi on 5Ghz it's been limited to around 200-250 Mbps on all my AC devices. My upload speed is around 400-700 Mbps.
So, I bought the AC86U and was hoping it gives me better Wifi Performance. I connected it to the modem using Ethernet and PPPoE session. I get around 900-950 Mbps on the router using Ethernet. But again, the Wifi from the AC86U is limited to 200-250 Mbps. My upload speed is around 400-700 Mbps.
I tested using official firmware and then Merlin's.
I'm not expecting 1Gbps on Wifi, but maybe something around 400-500 Mbps would be nice.
Here are some info and things I've tried.
1) I live in a condo and everyone now has the same 1 Gig service and modem. Please see picture. Mine is the Asus_5G.
2) I tried every combination of 20/40/80 and channel on the router. Everything is worse than the default of Auto settings which I think settles on 80 and channel 157.
3) My 2 wifi devices are Asus rog laptop with AC8260 and Galaxy S9+. You can see from the picture, they connect at 866+ Mbps.
4) I'm doing my tests with client right next to router.
5) I'm testing on Ookla. Testing on DSLReports HTML5 speed test site gives me better results at around 350 Mbps
6) I've disabled Windows Defender, windows firewall, Router's firewall, nothing changed.
I guess I want to know where the bottle neck here is:
1) Congestion? If I choose a channel that no one else is using, is there still congestion because of all the other channels being congested?
2) Any settings I need to change on the AC86U?
3) Are my clients limited in their Wifi speeds?
Any help is appreciated.