Hi,
I am facing some slowness issues with a brand new RT-AC88U wifi router and was wondering if anyone here could give me some pointers on what else to check.
(Just want to also mention that I have a network background (not so much Wi-FI though), so I could rule out/test some things myself).
I have Fios gigabit internet at home and this RT-AC88U router directly connects to it via an RJ-45 cable. There is no ISP modem in between, is what I am saying. Wired computers work just fine, no issues there. Wireless is stable enough on the 2.4 Ghz channel, so no complaints there also.
The problem is with the 5 Ghz wifi (separate SSID). It's signal strength is quite good, which I confirmed by walking around the house with one of those wifi analyzer software running. I even had a continuous ping going (to a random internet site) while I was walking around just to see if pings drop, but it doesn't. So that part is good. But the problem is, web sites load very slowly and some sites don't even load at all. The clients are mostly Apple products (macbooks + iPads). I don't have any custom or special setting on the router like VPN, QoS or anything like that though I do have parental controls enabled for time scheduling. And when it's slow, all I need to is, switch over to the 2.4 Ghz channel and everything works just fine as it should. Posting some screenshots of the settings I have in there. Any thoughts/suggestions, would be much appreciated! Thank you.
This is for the 5Ghz channel:
I am facing some slowness issues with a brand new RT-AC88U wifi router and was wondering if anyone here could give me some pointers on what else to check.
(Just want to also mention that I have a network background (not so much Wi-FI though), so I could rule out/test some things myself).
I have Fios gigabit internet at home and this RT-AC88U router directly connects to it via an RJ-45 cable. There is no ISP modem in between, is what I am saying. Wired computers work just fine, no issues there. Wireless is stable enough on the 2.4 Ghz channel, so no complaints there also.
The problem is with the 5 Ghz wifi (separate SSID). It's signal strength is quite good, which I confirmed by walking around the house with one of those wifi analyzer software running. I even had a continuous ping going (to a random internet site) while I was walking around just to see if pings drop, but it doesn't. So that part is good. But the problem is, web sites load very slowly and some sites don't even load at all. The clients are mostly Apple products (macbooks + iPads). I don't have any custom or special setting on the router like VPN, QoS or anything like that though I do have parental controls enabled for time scheduling. And when it's slow, all I need to is, switch over to the 2.4 Ghz channel and everything works just fine as it should. Posting some screenshots of the settings I have in there. Any thoughts/suggestions, would be much appreciated! Thank you.
This is for the 5Ghz channel: