utterly dissapointed with my purchase

[dhuesca]

There's 99% chance that I don't have a correct configuration applied so that's why I'm asking for help.

The facts:

• ISP 100mb down/ 10mb up pppoe vlan 6 (you guessed it, Movistar Spain)
  
  
• Windows 7 laptop fresh install, AC7260 wlan card (with preferred 5ghz band in advanced settings) with latest drivers, 8gb ram, SSD, i7.
  
  
• Asus AC68U with latest Merlin installed and overclocked to 1200/800
  
  
• WD 2TB usb3.0 drive attached to router (obviously in 3.0 port)
  
  
• QoS enabled
  
  
• There are NO other 5ghz networks around, but plenty of 2.4ghz ones

Now, here are the problems:

1. cant get more than 30mb down in ANY part of my house (not even 10ft away in direct line of sight, barely 35mb, tested with speedtest). I do get 105mb down with rj45. And to be fair, I have excellent latency on wifi.
   
   
2. all sharing options turned off except samba so I can mount my drive as a network drive, cant write or read at more than 2mb/s (some times I get 20, but thats on a rare occasion), always tested with the same 300mb file, ntfs filesystem
   
   
3. I have no idea how to configure the router so I can take advantage of my download speeds and use my hdd as a network drive in a way that i dont feel like Im working with floppy a drive (igmp snooping? rts? preamble?, wmm? what are those?? I know my way around computers PRETTY well, but im lost when it comes to networking)

Can any of you help? I feel dissapointed because I have better performance from my old cheapo 30$ tplink with ddwrt this 200$ router is replacing...

 

[NGRhodes]

There's 99% chance that I don't have a correct configuration applied so that's why I'm asking for help.

The facts:

• ISP 100mb down/ 10mb up pppoe vlan 6 (you guessed it, Movistar Spain)
  
  
• Windows 7 laptop fresh install, AC7260 wlan card (with preferred 5ghz band in advanced settings) with latest drivers, 8gb ram, SSD, i7.
  
  
• Asus AC68U with latest Merlin installed and overclocked to 1200/800
  
  
• WD 2TB usb3.0 drive attached to router (obviously in 3.0 port)
  
  
• QoS enabled
  
  
• There are NO other 5ghz networks around, but plenty of 2.4ghz ones

Now, here are the problems:

1. cant get more than 30mb down in ANY part of my house (not even 10ft away in direct line of sight, barely 35mb, tested with speedtest). I do get 105mb down with rj45. And to be fair, I have excellent latency on wifi.
   
   
2. all sharing options turned off except samba so I can mount my drive as a network drive, cant write or read at more than 2mb/s (some times I get 20, but thats on a rare occasion), always tested with the same 300mb file, ntfs filesystem
   
   
3. I have no idea how to configure the router so I can take advantage of my download speeds and use my hdd as a network drive in a way that i dont feel like Im working with floppy a drive (igmp snooping? rts? preamble?, wmm? what are those?? I know my way around computers PRETTY well, but im lost when it comes to networking)

Can any of you help? I feel dissapointed because I have better performance from my old cheapo 30$ tplink with ddwrt this 200$ router is replacing...

First thing, have you tried without overclocking ?

Next thing try doing a factory wipe (you can always backup your current config before you do), try wireless performance without enabling QoS/Sharing or changing any other settings (just set ssid and encryption password as per the startup wizard).

 

[jdebeer]

response to "utterly disappointed"

Read my post in "Trouble with the RT-AC87R router and my solution"

I had to send the AC87R back and get a new router. also sent a ac68x back. just did not work no matter how much messing around.

If there is a Best Buy near you, go buy a new router and test drive it over the weekend. If it don't work, bring it back.

JDB

 

[Pierino]

Read my post in "Trouble with the RT-AC87R router and my solution"

I had to send the AC87R back and get a new router. also sent a ac68x back. just did not work no matter how much messing around.

If there is a Best Buy near you, go buy a new router and test drive it over the weekend. If it don't work, bring it back.

JDB

I'm not sure there are any bestbuys in Spain......

 

[W4RH34D]

Other than not being happy with the numbers you're seeing, are the services you're running over the wifi not working?