My first time on the forums here but you all seem to have some pretty good insight on things. I've got 3 XT8s (One twin pack and one solo). Running the 23012 firmware. I've got one attached to my router as an AP and two nodes. PC on one node and NAS on another.
Now by default, the nodes seem to connect to the AP and when they sync up, I'm getting anything between 2.6Gbps and 2.8Gbps on one of them and 3.2 and 3.6Gbps so I'm pretty happy in this regard of wifi speeds. They seem really stable with pings across the network being consistent with very little if any dropped packets.
However, this behaviour seems to emerge - When I attempt to copy a file from my NAS (which has a throughput which capable of at least gigabit speeds), I'd expect based on the link speeds above to get circa 100MB/s off of a 1Gbps link. However it is nearly half that speed. The odd thing is, when go to the router webGUI and got to AIMesh, tell one of the nodes to speak to the other one instead of the AP, I get full gigabit (circa 100MB/s from the NAS). I can replicate it across a number of other firmwares.
I could leave the link to go to the other node but as a tradeoff from the speed, the link doesn't seem to be as stable (higher pings and some dropped packets) due to the distance between the two boxes.
So in summary, I have two nodes furthest apart from one another, using the AP as the middle-man, I get a speed penalty in favour of stable connections but connect to my other node using the web GUI and I get the full gigabit speeds with some instability. I've checked for other traffic across the nodes by disconnecting other devices from them
So my question is, any ideas why does this behaviour exist, if anyone knows, is there any fix?
Hope this is clear enough to answer but please ask for any more info.
Now by default, the nodes seem to connect to the AP and when they sync up, I'm getting anything between 2.6Gbps and 2.8Gbps on one of them and 3.2 and 3.6Gbps so I'm pretty happy in this regard of wifi speeds. They seem really stable with pings across the network being consistent with very little if any dropped packets.
However, this behaviour seems to emerge - When I attempt to copy a file from my NAS (which has a throughput which capable of at least gigabit speeds), I'd expect based on the link speeds above to get circa 100MB/s off of a 1Gbps link. However it is nearly half that speed. The odd thing is, when go to the router webGUI and got to AIMesh, tell one of the nodes to speak to the other one instead of the AP, I get full gigabit (circa 100MB/s from the NAS). I can replicate it across a number of other firmwares.
I could leave the link to go to the other node but as a tradeoff from the speed, the link doesn't seem to be as stable (higher pings and some dropped packets) due to the distance between the two boxes.
So in summary, I have two nodes furthest apart from one another, using the AP as the middle-man, I get a speed penalty in favour of stable connections but connect to my other node using the web GUI and I get the full gigabit speeds with some instability. I've checked for other traffic across the nodes by disconnecting other devices from them
So my question is, any ideas why does this behaviour exist, if anyone knows, is there any fix?
Hope this is clear enough to answer but please ask for any more info.