Netgear R7000 Wifi ac router poor USB performance

[theoak]

My HP DV6T laptop is 2011 model and has Intel Centrino Wireless N hardware. Its wifi b/g/n certified. Dunno about its max speeds but that is what (70-144mbps) its connecting at with the R7000 router. Also my laptop can see and connect to the router only on 2.4Ghz Band. it is in the same room as the router about 10-12 feet away from it. There is also a Belkin wifi N router running next to it.

@thiggins, requesting you to see and reply, thanks !!!

I had an HP laptop with an Intel 2230 wireless N card in it.

Basically it was a 2.4 Ghz N device with bluetooth.

It was a 2 antenna dual stream device; hence, 300 Mbps max. Depending on how the router is configured, you will get max speed link rates of 144 Mbps, or 300 Mbps.

It is NOT a 3 antenna, 3 stream device; hence no 450 Mbps on 2.4 Ghz.

It was a good little card. Worked great.

 

[ankydu]

You didn't answer my last question about why there are two routers.

Actually was testing the new netgear router in comparison to my old Belkin router, just to see the performance and range difference.

 

[thiggins]

If both routers are on, shut off the one you are not using. Only one router on at a time.

I have no other suggestions for you

 

[ankydu]

@thiggins, Even when testing with just the netgear router, I can seen atleast 17 more wifi networks in my apartment, can those interfere with my speed and coverage ????

 

[RogerSC]

Well, not @thiggins here, but yes, other people's wireless can interfere with yours, especially on 2.4GHz. band. It would be advisable to use an application like inSSIDer on your laptop, and see what channels are the clearest. Focus on channels 1, 6, and 11, and if one of those is relatively clear, use it. If you pretty much don't have a clear channel, just pick the clearest, and if that doesn't work, think about using 5GHz. wireless. By the way, be sure that you're using 20MHz. channel width on 2.4GHz., that's going to best with a lot of wireless competition.

You can also think about doing things like using powerline networking or MoCA to get your internet around your place, to where you need it.

But you need to find out what your wireless environment looks like, what channels your neighbors are using and how strong their signals are. Again, a program like inSSIDer is good on a laptop, or WiFi Analyzer or inSSIDer on an Android phone works well for checking out your neighbor's wireless networks as well.

 

[sfx2000]

USB 3.0 can significantly interfere with 2.4Ghz - having proper cables is key, and there are HW design considerations that must be taken to minimize impacts...

Intel has published an interesting paper --

www.usb.org/developers/whitepapers/327216.pdf

 

[ankydu]

Today I tested with my desktop connected with gigabit lan cable to the router and got average read speed of 52.6 mbps from my WD MyPassport USB3 Drive.

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
Note that USB powered drives seem to work better. Some drives just don't work well.
Wish Netgear published compatible drive list. Find out proven drive from other users
with their experiences just to be sure.

 

[remixedcat]

None. Don't use USB ports on routers. Instead build a NAS. Performance is terrible on router USB ports as I maxed out at 4.5MBytes/sec which is not enough for serious backups. USB2.0 HDD directly connected: 36Mbytes/sec and a 3.0 drive averages 50-60Mbytes/sec+ If it's over the NAS it will be that or greater.

USB3.0 also makes noise in the 2.4GHz band and decreases WLAN performance.