Recent Wireless "upgrade"

[eyetrip]

My buffalo nfiniti routers, while incredbily fast for wirelss in master/slave setup (around 8-9MB/s across flat), were just starting to give me daily issues and so needed to go.

Replaced them with Netgear DGND3700, which set me back £120, and got the Netgear Dual band WNDA3100v2 adapter.

Am also trying to use the DGND3700 to replace my home hub, but looks like I will need to get a phone.

Please note, I am talking about transfer rates in BYTES per second, not BITS.

Anyway, fastest transfer I seem to get is around 6.5MB/s. Not sure if this is a limitation I am going to have to live with, or if someone may have a suggestion on a more powerful adapter/wireless card that may help things along?

Also, why the hell do they advertise these things as N600/600Mbps when you can only get 300mbps?

 

[cp88]

Looks like you don't have dual banding enabled, they support 300 + 300 in dual band mode. Check that you have 2.4GHz and 5GHz enabled.

You should be seeing speed of around 15-19MB/s I reckon.

 

[eyetrip]

In the router settings, I definitely have both enabled, with different SSID's for each (did not like it when used same ssid).

But the adapter can only connect to one or the other at a time, not both - at least in no way I can determine.

 

[eyetrip]

So nobody got any suggestions?

These things are about 10m (if that) with pretty much line-of-sight.

My reported speeds on 2.4GHz foten go up to 300mbps, but transfers are around 5MB/s

Reported speeds on 5GHz are usually around 160mbps to 240mbps, and transfers rates around
6.5MB/s

Think will purchase another type of dongle in mean time, but was hoping to get around 10MB/s between router and PC.