legacyofbob
Occasional Visitor
Hello,
My main router at the moment is a RT-N66U but being located in my basement it has never given me good reception on the main floor of my house. I finally got around to running a CAT5 cable upstairs and added a RT-AC68P in access point mode. Unfortunately I can only get about 9.5Mbps on either 2.4GHz or 5GHz out to the internet. I checked the cable run by connecting it directly to a laptop and was able to get 120Mbps out to the internet so I know that is good. I am using a different SSID for the "upstairs" networks versus the "basement" networks, the basement 2.4GHz being on channel 1 and the upstairs on 6. I've also tried upgrading the firmware to 3.0.0.4.378_9135 and clearing the NVRAM afterwards and the results are the same.
The laptop I'm using shows that it is connected at 72Mbps on the 2.4GHz network, yet can still only get 9.5Mbps via speedtest (I ran on different websites to be sure.) Pings seems fine, 12ms to the server I was using.
(Yes at some point in the future I was planning on making the AC68 my router and turning the N66 into an AP but I have a lot of custom settings on the N66 as my router now and I didn't feel like messing with it.)
If anyone has any ideas for me to try I'd sure appreciate it.
Here's the AP's wireless log in case that helps:
My main router at the moment is a RT-N66U but being located in my basement it has never given me good reception on the main floor of my house. I finally got around to running a CAT5 cable upstairs and added a RT-AC68P in access point mode. Unfortunately I can only get about 9.5Mbps on either 2.4GHz or 5GHz out to the internet. I checked the cable run by connecting it directly to a laptop and was able to get 120Mbps out to the internet so I know that is good. I am using a different SSID for the "upstairs" networks versus the "basement" networks, the basement 2.4GHz being on channel 1 and the upstairs on 6. I've also tried upgrading the firmware to 3.0.0.4.378_9135 and clearing the NVRAM afterwards and the results are the same.
The laptop I'm using shows that it is connected at 72Mbps on the 2.4GHz network, yet can still only get 9.5Mbps via speedtest (I ran on different websites to be sure.) Pings seems fine, 12ms to the server I was using.
(Yes at some point in the future I was planning on making the AC68 my router and turning the N66 into an AP but I have a lot of custom settings on the N66 as my router now and I didn't feel like messing with it.)
If anyone has any ideas for me to try I'd sure appreciate it.
Here's the AP's wireless log in case that helps:
Code:
SSID: "Kitchen"
RSSI: 0 dBm SNR: 0 dB noise: -89 dBm Channel: 6
BSSID: 1C:87:2C:49:04:D8 Capability: ESS ShortSlot
Supported Rates: [ 1(b) 2(b) 5.5(b) 6 9 11(b) 12 18 24 36 48 54 ]
VHT Capable:
Chanspec: 2.4GHz channel 6 20MHz (0x1006)
Primary channel: 6
HT Capabilities:
Supported MCS : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]
VHT Capabilities:
Supported VHT (tx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9
Supported VHT (rx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9
Mode : AP Only
Stations List
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MAC Associated Authorized RSSI PSM SGI STBC Tx rate Rx rate Connect Time
20:68:9D:EB:7A:32 -53dBm No Yes No 72.2M 1M 00:00:00
SSID: "Kitchen_5G"
RSSI: 0 dBm SNR: 0 dB noise: -92 dBm Channel: 149/80
BSSID: 1C:87:2C:49:04:DC Capability: ESS
Supported Rates: [ 6(b) 9 12(b) 18 24(b) 36 48 54 ]
VHT Capable:
Chanspec: 5GHz channel 155 80MHz (0xe09b)
Primary channel: 149
HT Capabilities:
Supported MCS : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]
VHT Capabilities:
Supported VHT (tx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9
Supported VHT (rx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9
Mode : AP Only
Stations List
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MAC Associated Authorized RSSI PSM SGI STBC Tx rate Rx rate Connect Time