Hi everybody,
I just got my first wireless router, which is an Asus RT-N66U in Canada. I use Bell Fibe (25/10) and the built-in wireless router that came with the modem is horrible so i decided to spring some money and buy a my first router. After looking around, i decided on the RT-N66U.
I installed the wireless router last night and did a firmware upgrade to the latest version. After the firmware was updated, i restarted the router.
I am not familiar with configuring wireless routers and or anything at all, but i downloaded a tool named inSSider to inspect the wireless networks around me (i live in an apartment building) just to see.
I noticed that both my 2.4ghz and 5ghz band had a max rate of 216 shown in inSSider. I was under the impression that both should be at 450?
I just looked through the advanced settings and both 2.4ghz and 5ghz channel bandwidth were set to 20Mhz. Is this correct?
My laptop wifi adapter is only a 1x1 N compatible, but i have a Cisco AE2500 usb wireles adapter which is 2x2 N.
When i do a speedtest on the bell website using the built-in wireless adapter i get close to 25/6 which is what i get on ethernet, but when i connect using the Cisco AE2500 the speeds are around 6/1. I checked the network connection and for the status, it says that the AE2500 connected at 39Mbps sometimes it changes to 72 but it always drops down to 39Mbps.
I tried changing the channel bandwidth for the 5ghz to 20Mhz/40Mhz and restarted the router. The AE2500 connected at 300Mbps and the max rate shown in inSSider is now 450, but when i do a speed test it quickly jumps to 26Mbps download but then just as quickly it drops to 19-18-17-16 and levels off around 12-13. Seems that the speed is not reliable.
My question is, is something mis-configured in the router settings? What should the channel bandwidth be for the 2.4 and 5Ghz band. My wifi adapter connects at 72Mbps which i guess is the max it can connect? But why does the max rate show as 216 in inSSider?
Are there are settings i need to manually configure to get it running as good as possible?
Thanks a lot for the help! :o
I just got my first wireless router, which is an Asus RT-N66U in Canada. I use Bell Fibe (25/10) and the built-in wireless router that came with the modem is horrible so i decided to spring some money and buy a my first router. After looking around, i decided on the RT-N66U.
I installed the wireless router last night and did a firmware upgrade to the latest version. After the firmware was updated, i restarted the router.
I am not familiar with configuring wireless routers and or anything at all, but i downloaded a tool named inSSider to inspect the wireless networks around me (i live in an apartment building) just to see.
I noticed that both my 2.4ghz and 5ghz band had a max rate of 216 shown in inSSider. I was under the impression that both should be at 450?
I just looked through the advanced settings and both 2.4ghz and 5ghz channel bandwidth were set to 20Mhz. Is this correct?
My laptop wifi adapter is only a 1x1 N compatible, but i have a Cisco AE2500 usb wireles adapter which is 2x2 N.
When i do a speedtest on the bell website using the built-in wireless adapter i get close to 25/6 which is what i get on ethernet, but when i connect using the Cisco AE2500 the speeds are around 6/1. I checked the network connection and for the status, it says that the AE2500 connected at 39Mbps sometimes it changes to 72 but it always drops down to 39Mbps.
I tried changing the channel bandwidth for the 5ghz to 20Mhz/40Mhz and restarted the router. The AE2500 connected at 300Mbps and the max rate shown in inSSider is now 450, but when i do a speed test it quickly jumps to 26Mbps download but then just as quickly it drops to 19-18-17-16 and levels off around 12-13. Seems that the speed is not reliable.
My question is, is something mis-configured in the router settings? What should the channel bandwidth be for the 2.4 and 5Ghz band. My wifi adapter connects at 72Mbps which i guess is the max it can connect? But why does the max rate show as 216 in inSSider?
Are there are settings i need to manually configure to get it running as good as possible?
Thanks a lot for the help! :o