Recently, my ISP increased our speeds, when I noticed an oddity in regards to the speeds over 80 MHz.
I'm not sure why, but regardless of whether I select 40 or 80 MHz, the speeds are essentially the same, just slightly less with 40 MHz. I don't have a lot of AC clients, but I tried it with the two I have tried on this desktop (Netgear A6200 + Edimax EW-7822ULC) as well as two different AC networks were tested, and it's the same results.
Wired speeds are 360 as expected, but with both the wireless adapters, it seems to top out at roughly 240-250 Mbps in the same room for testing. Both adapters are 2x2 AC, and the main router is 4x4 AX, with the second AP I tried out of curiosity is 3x3 AC. When I change it from 80 MHz to 40 MHz, it only drops it to say 230 Mbps.
I then tried to go the extra mile, and put the AP I had stored away set up as a repeater to see how that would behave. Unsurprisingly, with the adapter connected to the repeated network(with good signal), it's 120-140 Mbps, slightly less with 40 MHz.
In the main router UI it shows the correct link rate - 1300 Mbps to the repeater, and my clients in all cases have had 866 link rates for 80, and 400 for 40 MHz as expected to either network.
My phone which is 1x1 N(150 Mbps link rates so 40 MHz) gets ~128 Mbps in this same room on 5 GHz, which is great for its spec. The ac clients are acting as if they were 40 MHz in regards to speed on both the 4x4 AX router and 3x3 AC AP.
Any idea what's going on?
I'm not sure why, but regardless of whether I select 40 or 80 MHz, the speeds are essentially the same, just slightly less with 40 MHz. I don't have a lot of AC clients, but I tried it with the two I have tried on this desktop (Netgear A6200 + Edimax EW-7822ULC) as well as two different AC networks were tested, and it's the same results.
Wired speeds are 360 as expected, but with both the wireless adapters, it seems to top out at roughly 240-250 Mbps in the same room for testing. Both adapters are 2x2 AC, and the main router is 4x4 AX, with the second AP I tried out of curiosity is 3x3 AC. When I change it from 80 MHz to 40 MHz, it only drops it to say 230 Mbps.
I then tried to go the extra mile, and put the AP I had stored away set up as a repeater to see how that would behave. Unsurprisingly, with the adapter connected to the repeated network(with good signal), it's 120-140 Mbps, slightly less with 40 MHz.
In the main router UI it shows the correct link rate - 1300 Mbps to the repeater, and my clients in all cases have had 866 link rates for 80, and 400 for 40 MHz as expected to either network.
My phone which is 1x1 N(150 Mbps link rates so 40 MHz) gets ~128 Mbps in this same room on 5 GHz, which is great for its spec. The ac clients are acting as if they were 40 MHz in regards to speed on both the 4x4 AX router and 3x3 AC AP.
Any idea what's going on?
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