RT-AC66U Dropping/Low Throughput

[spencerp92]

After the few most recent Merlin updates, my router has been dropping the connection almost hourly. I have been trying to adjust settings to see if there is something directly causing it, but I have found nothing.

In addition to that, I opened up Inssider just to see if there were too many overlapping connections, but what I did see was that my 5ghz network's 'Max Rate' was only 54. My 2.4ghz networks is 216, I had directly noticed this the other day when streaming a video; it would stutter and stop on the 5ghz, but once one the 2.4ghz network, it worked smooth.

Help for either would be greatly appreciated.

 

[RMerlin]

After the few most recent Merlin updates, my router has been dropping the connection almost hourly. I have been trying to adjust settings to see if there is something directly causing it, but I have found nothing.

In addition to that, I opened up Inssider just to see if there were too many overlapping connections, but what I did see was that my 5ghz network's 'Max Rate' was only 54. My 2.4ghz networks is 216, I had directly noticed this the other day when streaming a video; it would stutter and stop on the 5ghz, but once one the 2.4ghz network, it worked smooth.

Help for either would be greatly appreciated.

Post your 5 GHz settings so people can look at them. Otherwise we're all flying blind here.

 

[spencerp92]

Updated original, sorry about that.

 

[RMerlin]

Try disabling Explicit Beamforming, and setting wifi type to Auto instead of N + AC.

Also note that your SSID isn't exactly standard - some clients might be thrown off by its length or the presence of spaces in it.

 

[ANJ9686]

I'm having the same issues still not fixed... I did all the basic checks


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[spencerp92]

I have made the changes that were suggested, but I'm still getting the lower speeds. And besides those few changes, everything is default settings.

 

[RMerlin]

Also try using channel 36 in case your client is having issues with the higher numbered channels (some do).