Help with Router
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Smelling Salt
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How close are you to your router? Sit right beside your router and test the speed on 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Getting 89 isn't out of line on 2.4ghz as soon as you are any distance from the router but you should get more than that sitting right beside it. You should be able to get 700 or so on 5ghz sitting right beside your router, but 5ghz also has much worse range than 2.4ghz. I find in my home 5ghz is still generally the way to go anyway even if the signal is weaker as the speed is still faster than 2.4ghz with a stronger signal.
Negotiation Speed should always be AUTO by default....so unless you changed it manually on your device or your router at some point that shouldn't be the problem.
Negotiation Speed should always be AUTO by default....so unless you changed it manually on your device or your router at some point that shouldn't be the problem.
JaegerDice
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Is this your router?
AC1350 Wireless Dual Band Router
Advanced AC WiFi unleashes the full potential of all your wireless devices, providing good performance for daily use and video streaming.
www.tp-link.com
The specifications page says that the router has only 10/100mb ports. If so, the MOST your router could push to wired devices (assuming 100% efficiency, which doesn't exist) is 100mb/s.
You need a router with Gigabit ports (minimum) to get the most out of your internet connection if you're going to wire through the router. Most modern routers have 2.5gig WAN (internet out of the wall) and gigabit LAN ports (from the router to the computer, console, etc), so even if you don't want to spend much money you can find a better option.
If this is the wrong router, can you send me a link (even an amazon link) to the router you're using?
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To add to what JaegerDice said, it looks like V1 of that router has 10/100 ports (what a dumb decision for an AC router) and V4 has gigabit ports (recognized their screw-up, they did). I suspect that you have V1, but you could check on the label underneath. Unless it specifically says V4, then it's V1 and you should definitely buy a new router, preferably one with a 2.5gig WAN port, so that it can handle the faster fiber speeds now and in the near future.
Smelling Salt
Busey is life
Shit, you guys actually read his post properly AND looked up his router. I thought he was complaining about wifi speeds. Shame is achieved.
whatsbruin
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That's the issue, thanks.Is this your router?
AC1350 Wireless Dual Band Router
Advanced AC WiFi unleashes the full potential of all your wireless devices, providing good performance for daily use and video streaming.
The specifications page says that the router has only 10/100mb ports. If so, the MOST your router could push to wired devices (assuming 100% efficiency, which doesn't exist) is 100mb/s.
You need a router with Gigabit ports (minimum) to get the most out of your internet connection if you're going to wire through the router. Most modern routers have 2.5gig WAN (internet out of the wall) and gigabit LAN ports (from the router to the computer, console, etc), so even if you don't want to spend much money you can find a better option.
If this is the wrong router, can you send me a link (even an amazon link) to the router you're using?
Looking a new routers.
Thanks again, appreciate it.
JaegerDice
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Also, you may want to check your Ethernet cables too since you’re ordering a new router. Make sure you don’t have any older Cat. 5 cables anywhere since I believe they are limited to 100 mbps too.
Edit - same goes for any other equipment you have in the Ethernet chain, like an older 10/100 switch (etc). To get full gigabit speeds you need to make sure everything is capable of supporting it.
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Since Cat 5e and 6 costs basically the same anymore that certainly won't hurt, but you can even run Cat3 at gigabit (not a good idea) over short distances if need be.
Basically if both ends detect the other is a gig, it will run a gig regardless of the cable quality. But if the quality is poor or the run is too long it will throw CRC errors like crazy. So manually backing it down to 100mb (or even 10mb) would stop the CRCs but obviously kill your performance.
Again, not really a good idea normally but I've seen places where old buildings have obsolete structured cabling and the company can't afford newer stuff so they make it work.
Hell if you wanna get really creative you can do stuff like this (100mb doesn't require all 4 pairs)
