andreacos92 wrote:
I'm not very expert, but 19MB/s = 152Mb/s, that is surely Wireless N speed.
Wireless G speed is up to 54Mb/s 🙂
Richdog wrote:
Exactly what I thought... so how do I get AC... *sobs*
Richdog, you might already be connecting at AC speeds, check your wireless adapter in Networking and Sharing Center => Change Adapter Settings, what does it show? Right click on the adapter icon and select Status. If you are connected at AC speed, it will be over 600mbps, like this showing 866.5mbps
That is one of the things about AC speed, you won't fully utilize it unless the sending side can muster up enough throughput to fill the available bandwidth.
Network throughput is limited by disk throughput. Is the other PC sharing data from SSD or HDD? The fastest the server can send data from the storage is the fastest you can share the data. For testing you can use a RAMDISK if you only have an HDD on the sharing side to remove the physical disk bottleneck. Be sure and locally test the throughput of the RAMDISK you use to make sure it is helping - some RAMDISKs are slow.
Here is a good on that has a fully functional trial:
Raxco RamDisk Plus - +5GB/sec throughput in tests.
http://www.raxco.com/products/ramdisk-plus
Let's see your connection status to see how to improve it 🙂
hmscott wrote:
Richdog, you might already be connecting at AC speeds, check your wireless adapter in Networking and Sharing Center => Change Adapter Settings, what does it show? Right click on the adapter icon and select Status. If you are connected at AC speed, it will be over 600mbps, like this showing 866.5mbps
That is one of the things about AC speed, you won't fully utilize it unless the sending side can muster up enough throughput to fill the available bandwidth.
Network throughput is limited by disk throughput. Is the other PC sharing data from SSD or HDD? The fastest the server can send data from the storage is the fastest you can share the data. For testing you can use a RAMDISK if you only have an HDD on the sharing side to remove the physical disk bottleneck. Be sure and locally test the throughput of the RAMDISK you use to make sure it is helping - some RAMDISKs are slow.
Here is a good on that has a fully functional trial:
Raxco RamDisk Plus - +5GB/sec throughput in tests.
http://www.raxco.com/products/ramdisk-plus
Let's see your connection status to see how to improve it 🙂
AHhh I'm stupid, how could I not think of checking that? Duh. *slaps forehead*
My connection is at around 650Mbps, and so I think AC must be working.
Thanks Scott, guess I'm fine now and just need to optimizse my conneciton speeds. 🙂
Richdog wrote:
AHhh I'm stupid, how could I not think of checking that? Duh. *slaps forehead*
My connection is at around 650Mbps, and so I think AC must be working.
Thanks Scott, guess I'm fine now and just need to optimizse my conneciton speeds. 🙂
Richdog, cool 🙂
That's the speed you are looking for with the Netgear 6300, for AC1300 = 2 x 650 = 1300!
You might google for the particular chipset in the wifi card, is it Intel 7260 - the specific number and letter extensions are important in determining it's spec. The Intel spec for the top part shows connection of 866.5, roughly AC1750, and the same goes for your router.
I guess I wouldn't waste to much time on it, but if you try forcing wide mode on the router on each band, take out of Auto and set 40mhz on 2.4ghz and 80mhz on 5ghz, that might nail the speed to the max.
But, if that works, check your Wifi Landscape to see how crowed it is, the router might be playing nice and reducing it's bandwidth to avoid local traffic.
On Android I use Wifi Analyzer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en
On the PC I use inSSIDer, the paid version, version 4, but there is also a free version:
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5936-inssider.html - free
http://www.inssider.com/#steps - paid product info
And, if it is really crowed, 40mhz/80mhz will be obtrusive to other users, and if your servers won't fill the pipe anyway, you might as well be a good wifi citizen and let the router reduce to AC1300, and then I would reduce power as far as possible to reduce interference to others. I run mine as low as it will let me set it, and I don't have connectivity issues.
This shows my Asus router, ssid dlink, with 20mhz bandwidth on 2.4ghz, 80mhz on 5ghz
And, with 40mhz bandwidth on 2.4ghz, you can see I am walking all over other signals with such a wide band signal.
Hopefully you are without wifi neighbors and you can run at full speed 🙂
