Asus RT-N16 Wireless Instability Problems

[TDA]

[Solved] Asus RT-N16 Wireless Instability Problems

Router: Asus RT-N16
Firmware: AsusWRT-Merlin 3.0.0.4.374.36_beta1

The speed is going all over the place but now seems to be sitting at 5.5Mbps and my laptop is right next to the router.

Anyone have an idea why this could be happening?

Here's my configuration:

Wireless-General

Wireless-Professional

Wireless-Status

 

[L&LD]

It seems like your speed (at least through your ISP) is zero (No Internet Access indicated).

Also, do you need the b/g protection enabled?

 

[TDA]

It seems like your speed (at least through your ISP) is zero (No Internet Access indicated).

Also, do you need the b/g protection enabled?

Yeah the internet is working it probably hadn't got an IP address from the DHCP server in that picture it's now connected at 6.0 Mbps

No I do not I'll try disabling it

 

[TDA]

Initially the adapter connections at 144.0 Mbps but then bounces all around

 

[L&LD]

If it is just variable; then I wouldn't worry too much about the indicated connection speed. In a word; ignore.

What I would be investigating is that the throughput stays high. That is the only metric that counts at the end of the day.

 

[TDA]

If it is just variable; then I wouldn't worry too much about the indicated connection speed. In a word; ignore.

What I would be investigating is that the throughput stays high. That is the only metric that counts at the end of the day.

My Samsung Gaxaly SIII is connecting at 5.0 Mbps as well and the throughput is slow because it can't max out my out my internet connection which is 20.0 Mbps but a hard wired connection can so something is going on this is weird.

 

[L&LD]

Don't count on a small handheld device (phone or tablet) to give you a true measure of throughput (even of just your ISP).

Can you try with a notebook that is plugged in to AC power?

 

[TDA]

Don't count on a small handheld device (phone or tablet) to give you a true measure of throughput (even of just your ISP).

Can you try with a notebook that is plugged in to AC power?

Yeah I have two laptops that connect at 144 Mbps initially then drop to 19/12/6/5 Mbps

 

[sinshiva]

unrelated, but you should disable the wireless scheduler if you don't need it

wireless devices will generally scale down the interface power, for power savings. you should use an internet speedtest and watch whether the wireless interface's indicated link rate goes up.

also, i see your RT-N16's Tx power is set for 100mw; this may be too high. i'm unfamiliar with the device, though

oh, and set preamble to 'short'. you can also try reducing the beacon interval; i use 80. i think less is too short, tbh.

 

[TDA]

unrelated, but you should disable the wireless scheduler if you don't need it

Thanks I disabled the wireless scheduler don't recall turning it on maybe it was by default

wireless devices will generally scale down the interface power, for power savings. you should use an internet speedtest and watch whether the wireless interface's indicated link rate goes up.

That seems to be the case thanks for the clarification when I download a file at http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html the rate is consistently high.

also, i see your RT-N16's Tx power is set for 100mw; this may be too high. i'm unfamiliar with the device, though

Where do you see that at?

oh, and set preamble to 'short'. you can also try reducing the beacon interval; i use 80. i think less is too short, tbh.

I can only pick up one other wireless network on my router so not sure if I should change this since the short setting is recommended for high network traffic areas.

 

[sinshiva]

my mistake on the tx power, think i skimmed the screens too fast.

for reasons i've not bothered to explore, 'short' preamble is recommended for the newer wireless specs; N and later

 

[bill1228]

also, i see your RT-N16's Tx power is set for 100mw; this may be too high. i'm unfamiliar with the device, though.

You cannot set the Tx power on the N16.
--bill