Please help with ECO mode

[ColinTaylor]

Can it be my laptop not supporting AC? actually it's quite old...

What should the speed be for wifi N on 5Ghz?

That might be the reason. You said your card was a Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN. According to this (http://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/...ments/product-briefs/wifi-link-5100-brief.pdf) the best that card can do is "n" not "ac". In which case the information from inSSIDer might be wrong (the card might not understand the information the router is giving out).

Changing Channel bandwidth to 40MHz should give you a "Max Rate" of 300Mbps.

Edit: Removed incorrect reference to preamble type.

 

[yelo3]

Maybe also because inssider 3 home does not support AC
That's written in the start page

 

[ColinTaylor]

Maybe time to install inSSIDer 4 then. And you don't need to have an AC card for it to understand AC networks.

 

[yelo3]

Unfortunately inSSIDer 4 is not free.
Thanks for your support!

 

[ColinTaylor]

Doh! You're absolutely right. I'm running 3 as well, I thought it was 4. (I don't have any AC networks to test it with)

Acrylic WiFi Home is free and supports AC networks.

 

[yelo3]

I'll try, thanks

 

[yelo3]

In the meantime I noticed something that might be strange.
I'm in the farthest room of my house, and the signal is quite low.
Now look at what happens when I issue this command

wl down
wl restart # not necessary
wl up

Any explanation?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Any explanation?

Not really, but I've noticed this as well. It seems to be normal behaviour.

 

[yelo3]

Is it possible that some setting that limits wifi is lost when issuing those commands?
How can I check which options/flags are enabled on my wifi?

I tried wl dump, but the only thing that changes is from resets 3 to resets 5 (I don't think that matters)

 

[yelo3]

Merlin, which is the best place to put the wl down / wl up script, so that it is executed every time wifi goes up/dows? (eg guest network enabled/disabled)

thanks

 

[RMerlin]

Merlin, which is the best place to put the wl down / wl up script, so that it is executed every time wifi goes up/dows? (eg guest network enabled/disabled)

thanks

There's no script hook tied to the wireless service going up/down. You could try a firewall-start script, but I'm not sure if the firmware restarts the firewall whenever it restarts the wireless subsystem.