What's your wireless file transfer speed at home?

Kaiju · 4 Mar 2015 at 19:44

I'm getting 4MB/s around a meter away and 2MB/s 2 metres away behind a wall.

Is that normal for a desktop to laptop file transfer?

Windows 7 and Archer 7 router.

bledd · 4 Mar 2015 at 22:36

Fastest I've had with all Wireless N was around 11MB/s

Pathetic

Uhtred · 4 Mar 2015 at 22:54

As above but only using 5ghz. 2.4 is a bit congested around here.

darknite · 5 Mar 2015 at 15:05

Wireless N 300mbit module in a Intel NUC about 10m away from HH5. Gets 6 - 8MB/s. New build house so thin walls. Wifi connects about 130mbit. So pretty good. Would like to get an AC module for it though.

bledd · 5 Mar 2015 at 15:12

I gave up on wifi. Just use network cables if you're doing anything other than light browsing.

mrbazmondo · 5 Mar 2015 at 15:56

When the microwave is going about 0Mbps. Otherwise about 2.5MB/s.
I use wired gigabit for anything that isn't mobile.

McGraw · 5 Mar 2015 at 16:15

Slow enough to make me use usb sticks.

John40 · 5 Mar 2015 at 17:19

12mb/s ish

Kaiju · 6 Mar 2015 at 20:58

Going to buy a AC1200 USB adapter for laptop to go with my Archer C7 and see what that can do.

Edit: Just got it and voila, bye bye 2MB/s transfers and hello 30MB/s transfers. Using 5GHz and sitting a few meters away.

DotA · 7 Mar 2015 at 13:35

Got an asus AC68u which i have replaced one of the antenna with a directional one, my laptop has a AC-7260 wifi card that has a max connection of 877mbps. my laptop is about 25-40 feet away and through a wall. i get between a 33-37mps transfer from nas to laptop and about a 15-17 ms from laptop to nas. Before i got the new antenna i was getting 25mps and 12 mps respectivly. if my laptop is right next to the router i get around 70mbps transfers.

kona786 · 7 Mar 2015 at 19:52

On AC 5G, maxes out my 80Mb internet line just fine. Stable too. Download plenty though it's only 2M away in different rooms.

Asus AC56U + TP-Link T4U AC1200

lamboman · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:06

Absolute peak, 130Mbit/s or so (16MB/s), 802.11n using an Asus RT-N66U, 3x3.

ScoobyDoo · 8 Mar 2015 at 13:09

I can get 16MB/s and max out my virgin 152mb connection using a Asus RT-N66U on the 5ghz channel. This is going through some solid brick walls from the living room upstairs into my study.

Nismo · 9 Mar 2015 at 09:40

ScoobyDoo said:
I can get 16MB/s and max out my virgin 152mb connection using a Asus RT-N66U on the 5ghz channel. This is going through some solid brick walls from the living room upstairs into my study.

Same, but with a Netgear R7000. No idea what the max. would be as that's just internet download speed which is limited, not actually tried any internal file transfers.

Kei · 9 Mar 2015 at 10:49

On 5GHz, mine averages about 38MB/s at roughly 5m from the router through one brick wall. Taking it downstairs, this drops to ~ 25MB/s, about 8m from the router but another two walls in the way. Maximum I've seen out of it was 60MB/s with the laptop a 2ft from the router.

This is with a standalone D-link DAP-2695 wireless access point connected to the rest of the network via an HP 1910 switch.

@simpleMr · 10 Mar 2015 at 18:52

It all depends if you live in urban or rural area as the signal from all the different networks actually do have significant effects on how fast you transfer. It does depend on a number of other things like the congestion on your router and of course the router its slef is it a good one and also your wifi on your laptop etc are they good brands. i have found and is to be expected that usb wifi is of course cheaper and slower like 4mbps however in contrast to my wifi Nic i do often over the internet which istn particularly fast but at its peak of 22mbps. But then again i am a computer ocd kinda person and with the asus wifi nic cards the high end ones at least they haven't fixed a Broadcom software bug so it causes about 80,000 errors over a day in the background not effecting directly but its annoying.any way i would suggest a better router however i was you and if you are willing i would get pfsense and make your own router it would cost a bit but you would be all the better for it.