Slow WiFi speed

[Smokie]

Hey everyone,
Just joined so thanks for reading my question.

I have the Asus RT AC5300 running on the latest merlin firmware. However I have noticed both on the merlin and the original firmware that running a speed test will come back at my full isp speeds of 360M over WiFi. The next day my speed would be down to 6-9 M even standing next to the router. A restart fixis the issue immediately. Im only restarting the Asus router so the bandwidh been given to the router from my virgin media hub is not the issue.

I have smart connect enabled so my WiFi is only one ssid.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Smokie]

Hey everyone,
Just joined so thanks for reading my question.

I have the Asus RT AC5300 running on the latest merlin firmware. However I have noticed both on the merlin and the original firmware that running a speed test will come back at my full isp speeds of 360M over WiFi. The next day my speed would be down to 6-9 M even standing next to the router. A restart fixis the issue immediately. Im only restarting the Asus router so the bandwidh been given to the router from my virgin media hub is not the issue.

I have smart connect enabled so my WiFi is only one ssid.

Any help appreciated.

So running a speedtest this morning came back under 10meg. Instead of restarting my router I turned wifi off on the device I was testing. Turned wifi back on and as soon as it connected I was up to full speed again.

Weird....

 

[MichaelCG]

Have you confirmed your device is connected to 5GHz when it is slow? My initial guess is that you are on 5GHz when fast and on 2.4GHz when slow.

 

[Smokie]

Device is always on the 5ghz channel.
Even if it did switch to the 2.4ghz it would still be faster than 10.