1Gb Hyperoptic FTTP over wifi

XeNoNF50

XeNoNF50

XeNoNF50

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So I just bought the ASUS PCE-AC88, paired with an RT-AC68U and I am getting much higher upload speed than download, as shown in this image: http://www.speedtest.net/result/7148198186.png, but when I wire a machine I can get this sort of speed where download and upload are symmetrical: http://www.speedtest.net/result/7148173851.png.

Is there something wrong with my wifi card? Shouldn't the download be closer to the upload and be near symmetrical through it, as it is the bottleneck?
 
WiFi is designed for portability and ease of use, not throughput.

You could try tweaking the WiFi channel or get a new WiFi case for your pc.

Personally I'd wire up everything and use WiFi for mobile devices.
 
bledd said:
WiFi is designed for portability and ease of use, not throughput.

You could try tweaking the WiFi channel or get a new WiFi case for your pc.

Personally I'd wire up everything and use WiFi for mobile devices.
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Sorry, I understand it's for ease and I won't get the same as a wired on wifi connection. My query was more, if the upload is maxing at 600, then shouldn't the download be the same too considering I can get 900/800 wired.
 
Looks about right for wifi, you won't get anything close to theoretical maximum in the real world even when the client is next to the router. I would say the 360mb down is 'not bad' for fairly standard AC wifi set up. I couldn't say why the upload was faster, but WiFi is heavily effected by it's environment.

The router is much slower than the client card, that is your bottle neck if you want to increase speeds. You ***may*** get better results with a high end power line setup but your results will vary depending on the conditions locally.

EDIT: Just a thought it could be some QoS settings in the router effecting the download rates, have a play and see what happens.
 
You might be able to balance it out somewhat messing with a few settings in the router but as above those are fantastic speeds over Wi-Fi, how close was the device to the router during that test?
 
Ayahuasca said:
You might be able to balance it out somewhat messing with a few settings in the router but as above those are fantastic speeds over Wi-Fi, how close was the device to the router during that test?
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Yeah I'm planning on playing with it when I get a bit of time. It's not too far. The router is situated downstairs in the utility cupboard next to the (kind of winding) stairs. My PC is in the office which is situated upstairs just adjacent to the top of the stairs. Difficult to quantify a straight line distance but probably between 5-10 meters and a wall and ceiling to penetrate.
 
Played with it a bit. Managed to get it up to almost the level I hoped for when I bought the WiFi adapter (480 down), but still a bit of an annoyance how I cannot get my download speed up to anywhere near the same as the upload (which is now at 720). I've tried resetting all settings on router, remove QoS, tried different configurations of QoS, messed with the 5Ghz band settings, a whole bunch of stuff. Any ideas?
 
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Chances are the CPU of the wireless device is running at capacity and can't deliver 1Gb speeds. You would need a hefty Router to run at 1Gb anyway. We use Juniper SRX340's for this purpose. A Cisco 1941 with a 1Gb port still cant max those speeds out so I highly doubt a consumer grade Wireless card will.

Irrespective, I'd be more than chuffed with those speeds!

Shawrey
 
Steveocee said:
Regardless to the card you’re committing high treason by not cabling in and getting gigabit rates.
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True, true.

Found it was the router that was limiting the throughput of the download speed, with the latest firmware update released yesterday (I think), speed went up further via wifi. Still less than upload but hey, around the levels I hoped for when I bought the pce-ac88 wifi adapter. Can imagine this going even higher if I upgrade my router at some point.

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You should post a screenshot of your wireless connectivity information. I'm surprised nobody has asked for it yet. You probably won't get a lot more than that through wifi.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this router only able to do up to around 600Mb/s over Wifi? "Broadcom® TurboQAM™ technology increases wireless-N data rate to 600 Mbps for 33% faster performance" In which case, 10% throughput loss off of the theoretical max speed is hardly anything to snuff at.

Shawrey
 
XeNoNF50 said:
True, true.

Found it was the router that was limiting the throughput of the download speed, with the latest firmware update released yesterday (I think), speed went up further via wifi. Still less than upload but hey, around the levels I hoped for when I bought the pce-ac88 wifi adapter. Can imagine this going even higher if I upgrade my router at some point.

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That's very good speed for WiFi...

It's heavily dependent on the adaptor in your device and the wireless hardware.

With my Ruckus gear... I get about 400-500mbit on my iPhone X, about 600-700mbit on a Galaxy S9 & only about 250mbit on my Razer Blade 2017
With my Meraki gear... I get about 300mbit on iPhone X, 800-900mbit on Galaxy S9 & 400mbit on Razer
 
crinkleshoes said:
That's very good speed for WiFi...

It's heavily dependent on the adaptor in your device and the wireless hardware.

With my Ruckus gear... I get about 400-500mbit on my iPhone X, about 600-700mbit on a Galaxy S9 & only about 250mbit on my Razer Blade 2017
With my Meraki gear... I get about 300mbit on iPhone X, 800-900mbit on Galaxy S9 & 400mbit on Razer
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Awesome! Yeah I'm quite chuffed now, was hoping for > 500 over wifi with my gear. I suspect it'd be higher paired with an rt-ac5300 rather than my rt-ac68u (surprised that's even getting this high tbh).
 
XeNoNF50 said:
Awesome! Yeah I'm quite chuffed now, was hoping for > 500 over wifi with my gear. I suspect it'd be higher paired with an rt-ac5300 rather than my rt-ac68u (surprised that's even getting this high tbh).
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I'd be happy with that... even at enterprise level, there isn't much that can beat that and it is significantly more expensive.

The ping you have of 2ms is also very good for wireless... that's usually where wireless lets you down.

I'd much rather have a 50mbps 1ms connection over a 1gbps 30ms connection...
 
Yeah really happy with it now. Will be diminishing law of returns if I do try to improve it. I really do love the ping times I'm getting.
 
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