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Hi All,
This afternoon I set up an Asus RT-AC66U for a client in an approximately 4000sq. ft. brand new custom built home. I chose this router over the RT-AC68U, the Netgear R7000, and the Linksys WRT1900AC as I've used it before as I've used it in a similar sized house that's less than 10 years old, and had great results there. I went with the router I was familiar with.
I did a site survey with Net Surveyor from Nuts About Nets, and the wireless environment was relatively clear, so I chose channel 1 for 2.4GHz and ch. 36 (I think) for 5GHz. Modem and router are in the basement by the demarc.
Most of the house gets good to excellent signal strength and quality, however, while wired speeds are great (over 30Mbps down, and 5Mbps down on a 30x5 connection from the cable company), wireless speeds are slow. I'm getting between 2 and 10Mbps down and consistently 4-5Mbps up. Pings are in the 10-12 ms range. I tested to multiple local servers on speedtest.net. The firmware should be the latest (the router prompted to do the update during the initial set up).
Normally it's the upload speeds I have to troubleshoot, not the download.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I know I will have to install another AP as there is at least one dead spot, unless switching to the Linksys or Netgear AC routers (or another high end N router) will do a better job with the range needed. There will be 8-10 wired devices connected next week, including 5 or 6 smart TVs, so it needs to be able to handle multiple HD video steams (most likely Netflix).
I'll be there tomorrow to do further troubleshooting.
Thanks for any and all help
This afternoon I set up an Asus RT-AC66U for a client in an approximately 4000sq. ft. brand new custom built home. I chose this router over the RT-AC68U, the Netgear R7000, and the Linksys WRT1900AC as I've used it before as I've used it in a similar sized house that's less than 10 years old, and had great results there. I went with the router I was familiar with.
I did a site survey with Net Surveyor from Nuts About Nets, and the wireless environment was relatively clear, so I chose channel 1 for 2.4GHz and ch. 36 (I think) for 5GHz. Modem and router are in the basement by the demarc.
Most of the house gets good to excellent signal strength and quality, however, while wired speeds are great (over 30Mbps down, and 5Mbps down on a 30x5 connection from the cable company), wireless speeds are slow. I'm getting between 2 and 10Mbps down and consistently 4-5Mbps up. Pings are in the 10-12 ms range. I tested to multiple local servers on speedtest.net. The firmware should be the latest (the router prompted to do the update during the initial set up).
Normally it's the upload speeds I have to troubleshoot, not the download.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I know I will have to install another AP as there is at least one dead spot, unless switching to the Linksys or Netgear AC routers (or another high end N router) will do a better job with the range needed. There will be 8-10 wired devices connected next week, including 5 or 6 smart TVs, so it needs to be able to handle multiple HD video steams (most likely Netflix).
I'll be there tomorrow to do further troubleshooting.
Thanks for any and all help
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