I have both the N56U and N66U, and over the past few days the N66U has been driving me crazy!
My original N56U was located one floor above my living room (in the office), and the throughput I used to get was good (~5 MBytes/s copying a file from my laptop in the living room to my NAS connected to the N56U on the 2.4 GHz band). Speedtest.net tests resulted in a healthy 35 Mbps down, so I was generally happy.
I've now got a N66U with firmware ver 3.0.0.3.116 and when positioning the router and laptop in the same physical locations, I get some strange results!
File copy is approximately the same ~5 MBytes/s as that of the N56U, but WAN download drops to a poor ~2 Mbps! I tried a variety of speed tester websites (including speedtest.net) and they report the same speed. I even tried a different laptop and my Samsung Galaxy S II, but both report very low throughputs (1-2 Mbps).
If I re-position the laptop to the *same* floor as the N66U, I get a WAN speed of around 55 Mbps (which is near my maximum speed).
I have re-positioned the N66U all over the place upstairs, including changing the orientation of the antennas, but this makes no difference.
So why is the WAN N56U speed minimally affected by floor separation whilst the N66U sucks with WAN throughput only? Signal strength doesn’t seem to be the problem (confirmed with inSSIDer).
Incidentally, I do NOT see this problem on the 5 GHz band, e.g. WAN throughput is fine when both the laptop and N66U are positioned in the same locations.
I am confused and would appreciate some guidance! Thanks!
My original N56U was located one floor above my living room (in the office), and the throughput I used to get was good (~5 MBytes/s copying a file from my laptop in the living room to my NAS connected to the N56U on the 2.4 GHz band). Speedtest.net tests resulted in a healthy 35 Mbps down, so I was generally happy.
I've now got a N66U with firmware ver 3.0.0.3.116 and when positioning the router and laptop in the same physical locations, I get some strange results!
File copy is approximately the same ~5 MBytes/s as that of the N56U, but WAN download drops to a poor ~2 Mbps! I tried a variety of speed tester websites (including speedtest.net) and they report the same speed. I even tried a different laptop and my Samsung Galaxy S II, but both report very low throughputs (1-2 Mbps).
If I re-position the laptop to the *same* floor as the N66U, I get a WAN speed of around 55 Mbps (which is near my maximum speed).
I have re-positioned the N66U all over the place upstairs, including changing the orientation of the antennas, but this makes no difference.
So why is the WAN N56U speed minimally affected by floor separation whilst the N66U sucks with WAN throughput only? Signal strength doesn’t seem to be the problem (confirmed with inSSIDer).
Incidentally, I do NOT see this problem on the 5 GHz band, e.g. WAN throughput is fine when both the laptop and N66U are positioned in the same locations.
I am confused and would appreciate some guidance! Thanks!
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