What is your Wireless AC file transfer speed?

Hi,

Just bought the Netgear R7800 router, and I set it up as AP mode, and connected to my Pfsense Box (diy build)

Transferring a single large file (1GB to 9GB) from my server ( connected via lan cable to pfsense box) to XPS 15 (Wifi 5Ghz to AP) result in 50-60MB/s only. Which I saw the review on Anandtech and several other review showing that with wireless AC I am safe to expect 70MB -80MB/s range, so I'm just gathering ideas of how does your XPS 15 perform?

**My laptop is the only client connected to my AP during the test**

Thanks!

 

Assuming you have the Broadcom 3x3 ac card 50-60 MB/s is not that impressive. 2x2 cards easily get 45MB/s or so a third spatial stream should in theory put you in mid seventies, so 75-80MB/s should not be a surprise.

That said that Broadcom card was (or is) troublesome when the notebook launched. The question is if it's something a driver update can fix. Check if StationDrivers have anything more recent than Dell is offering.

Note: I don't have XPS 15 so I made assumptions as to the card you have, if it's not DW1830 aka Broadcom 3x3 than ignore all of the above.

 

Yup the card is DW1830, after reading several review here there 50 ish MB is really on low side, killer 1535 can easily do 80MB ish, really scratching my head now.

Tried to manual install the driver from driver station but it doesn't seems right, will try make an image of the system and try again.

Thanks!

 

Do a wired test with another device to rule out your nas box.

 

Mine is about the same, 55MB/s for a 10GB file.

Tested with my desktop (wired) and it was 82MB/s

 

getting about 65 tops reading from my nas. connected at 1gb/s

 

nice!!! I'll do wired test once my adapter arrived.
But 100% sure my server isn't the "bottleneck", I use another gaming pc (wired) using SMB 3.1.1 on win10 with quad port intel nic, easily do file transfer from and to the server at 380MB/s and there's a bit more extra room for it but my gaming pc don't have fast storage, in general the speed can go up to 440-480MB/s.

Apparently, I suspect the DW1830 may be the antenna is loose or something, just my 2cents, I'll get the Torx driver later this week see mount unmount the 1830 helps or not.

Thanks for the inputs!!! Really appreciate that!

 

Problem solved !!!

Short answer is the network credential problem.

My laptop is signing in with live acc while my server is using local account. After I changed that yup everything works perfectly now, I saw short brief peak at 89MB/s, and now the nominal avg speed is 60-70MB/s, mostly on high 60.

Out of curious why the login credential have anything to do with the speed?? I'm really really clueless about that.

It happened before while I'm trying the SMB3 which using multiple lan port to transfer files between pc, the situation was only one way works until I changed both credential.

Cheers!

 

I wouldn't look into it, blame windows for being a tit instead

 

LOL, it's the weirdest "feature" ever LOL