Hey guys,
I have an Apple Airport Extreme AC1750 router connecting a few devices in a small apt. I have a PC running Windows 10 with a wifi N pcie card that occasionally gets lag spikes while gaming so I figured I'd update the wifi card. I know wifi isn't the best for gaming but my router is 10ft away and I'm on 5ghz with minimal interference so it shouldn't be happening. Anyway, I got a TPlink Archer T8E AC1750 PCIe card. With my old card I can transfer at about 10MB/s to my macbook (connected at a rate of 1gbit over wifi). The new card at first was only getting 7MB/s. I'm not sure why/how but after uninstalling/reinstalling drivers and rebooting several times it seems to be stable now at 27-30MB/s between the two wifi devices. If I connect the desktop to gigabit ethernet and transfer to the macbook, it goes at 70MB/s
is 240mbit good or bad between two AC devices through an AC1750 router? I cannot find the max speed of the Macbook pro but found in system info that it's Broadcom BCM43xx. The link rate is 878mbps in OSX and in Windows for each device.
I don't really care so much about speed but just want to make sure the new wifi card is working properly. The fact that it was transferring at 7MB/s for the first hour is kind of worrying, and I don't particularly know how I got it to go faster. I am thinking of returning this card and getting the more expensive Asus PCE-AC68 (cannot find the PCE-AC66 anywhere) and just want to know what sort of transfer speeds I should be aiming for with this router and two AC devices to know that it's working properly
Thanks!
EDIT: nevermind not stable at all. I reboot and now it's going at 8-10MB/s. Going to try the Asus wifi card. Would appreciate if someone could let me know what transfer speeds I should be getting though
I have an Apple Airport Extreme AC1750 router connecting a few devices in a small apt. I have a PC running Windows 10 with a wifi N pcie card that occasionally gets lag spikes while gaming so I figured I'd update the wifi card. I know wifi isn't the best for gaming but my router is 10ft away and I'm on 5ghz with minimal interference so it shouldn't be happening. Anyway, I got a TPlink Archer T8E AC1750 PCIe card. With my old card I can transfer at about 10MB/s to my macbook (connected at a rate of 1gbit over wifi). The new card at first was only getting 7MB/s. I'm not sure why/how but after uninstalling/reinstalling drivers and rebooting several times it seems to be stable now at 27-30MB/s between the two wifi devices. If I connect the desktop to gigabit ethernet and transfer to the macbook, it goes at 70MB/s
is 240mbit good or bad between two AC devices through an AC1750 router? I cannot find the max speed of the Macbook pro but found in system info that it's Broadcom BCM43xx. The link rate is 878mbps in OSX and in Windows for each device.
I don't really care so much about speed but just want to make sure the new wifi card is working properly. The fact that it was transferring at 7MB/s for the first hour is kind of worrying, and I don't particularly know how I got it to go faster. I am thinking of returning this card and getting the more expensive Asus PCE-AC68 (cannot find the PCE-AC66 anywhere) and just want to know what sort of transfer speeds I should be aiming for with this router and two AC devices to know that it's working properly
Thanks!
EDIT: nevermind not stable at all. I reboot and now it's going at 8-10MB/s. Going to try the Asus wifi card. Would appreciate if someone could let me know what transfer speeds I should be getting though
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