Slow wifi speeds on BE86u., What settings should I change

[Tech9]

Looking to optimize network

Wireless is shared, non-guaranteed performance and convenience oriented technology. Your new router is BE-class for marketing purposes only. The same 2.4GHz/5GHz band limitations apply to it as to any other dual-band router manufactured in last 10+ years. Channel bandwidth is shared between all devices on your and adjacent to you wireless networks and there are only 2x 80MHz wide non-DFS channels available on 5GHz band. High-bandwidth and high-reliability expectations devices must be wired for guaranteed results.

 

[sfx2000]

Wireless is shared, non-guaranteed performance and convenience oriented technology. Your new router is BE-class for marketing purposes only. The same 2.4GHz/5GHz band limitations apply to it as to any other dual-band router manufactured in last 10+ years. Channel bandwidth is shared between all devices on your and adjacent to you wireless networks and there are only 2x 80MHz wide non-DFS channels available on 5GHz band. High-bandwidth and high-reliability expectations devices must be wired for guaranteed results.

And the interop issues with older devices...

If one wants to make the most of WiFi7 - older devices can have challenges due to things like WPA3...

 

[kuchkovsky]

Your new router is BE-class for marketing purposes only. The same 2.4GHz/5GHz band limitations apply

I wouldn't say so. There's one not very obvious but really important change since Wi-Fi 7 was released - 5 GHz 160 MHz became the new norm. Previously, Apple and Samsung devices were limited to 80 MHz only. I was able to get only ~800 Mbps on my iPhone. Now, the iPhone 16 Pro Max gets ~1900 Mbps with the RT-BE88U. That's a huge difference, and it's not that far away from ~2400 Mbps that you are usually able to get with the 6 GHz band routers. Yes, I use DFS channels, but no one else in my area uses them (their devices simply don't support these channels), and there's no radar, so who cares?

 

[Tech9]

5 GHz 160 MHz

This is not guaranteed to work. If it doesn’t work for AX it won’t work for BE as well.

 

[kuchkovsky]

This is not guaranteed to work

Why? I don't have any issue with it on my devices. I tried both Apple and Samsung. It works with AX as well, BTW (Apple recently unlocked 160 MHz for the iPhone 15 Pro Max). Speed is a bit lower, around ~1400 Mbps, but it works fine.

 

[degrub]

I wouldn't say so. There's one not very obvious but really important change since Wi-Fi was released - 5 GHz 160 MHz became the new norm. Previously, Apple and Samsung devices were limited to 80 MHz only. I was able to get only ~800 Mbps on my iPhone. Now, the iPhone 16 Pro Max gets ~1900 Mbps with the RT-BE88U. That's a huge difference, and it's not that far away from ~2400 Mbps that you are usually able to get with the 6 GHz band routers. Yes, I use DFS channels, but no one else in my area uses them (their devices simply don't support these channels), and there's no radar, so who cares?

A one way download stream only needs ~100 mbit/s at most.
How fast can you type in the apps ?

 

[kuchkovsky]

How fast can you type in the apps ?

Same speed as before

Huge speeds on mobile devices are generally pointless, agree