Help Reaching 300Mbps

I need some help with the settings needed to reach 300Mbps.

I have a Linksys E3000 Router (latest firmware) and an Intel 5300 N card (latest drivers) on my Dell 1501 with windows 7 x64. The Intel card has 3 antennas, 2 running up into the LCD and 1 running under the keyboard.

Currently, I am getting around 130Mbps (with drops to 70s) and occasionally 144Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. The laptop sees the 5GHz band network, but I cannot join it for some reason. I know the 5GHz band works, because my xbox can join this network. How can I get the laptop/Intel 5300 to join the 5GHz band? I would guess this may be the reason I am not getting 300Mbps.

Also, what settings on the router do I need to get 300Mbps? (Channels, Width etc) There are also settings in device manager for the network card as well.

Thanks for the help!

 

Chose a channel that is free and gives you the best signal power- use inSSIDer to scan for them. You have to use 40MHz channel width- that has to be set on the router.
Also in order to get 802.11n speeds you have to use WPA2+AES- just mentioning as you have it set up it seems.

 

Can you use WPA2+AES/WPA TKIP Mixed mode and get N speeds? The N clients should use WPA2, while the older clients get WPA TKIP and drop to the slower speed.

Also, are there any settings on the Intel Card in Device Manager I should be setting specific?

 

You can get 300mbps on the 2.4ghz, that's what I'm getting here.........just have to get the settings correct.

Steve

 

I don't know for sure if you can mix WPA2 and WPA and still achieve n speeds but there's no real reason to test it because every device build more or less since 2005 supports WPA2+AES and gives you better throughput while running it than while running TKIP or WEP (no one works on optimizing those two any more)
As for Intel- I don't use Intel Wi-Fi in any laptop that I have with me so unless you post these settings I'm not gonna be able to help you with that part.

 

What are your Wireless Router settings and Network card device manager settings please?

 

I switched to WPA2/WPA Mixed security(from WPA2 Personal), and it connected to the 5GHz band. It only did 54Mbps though... None of those settings produced anything faster.

Why did I have to switch from WPA2 to WPA2/WPA Mixed mode to get a connection? On 2.4GHz, the WPA2 only setting worked and connected at 144Mbps.

Also, I had to switch the windows network properties to TKIP to connect. AES would not work. However, AES works on 2.4GHz no problem with 144Mbps.

What can I do to correct this and get 300Mbps?

 

Hi there...

I also use Linksys E3000 (with the latest f/w) and WiFi Link 5300AGN (with the latest driver) inside my Studio 1735 (Vista Ultimate 32bit) and LifeBook S6410G (Vista Business 32bit). I'm able to get 300Mbps connection @5Ghz band and 270Mbps @2.4GHz band.

E3000 settings:
Each band uses different SSID (of course), and both have the same security settings of WPA2 Personal-AES. The 5GHz band is configured as wireless N only. The 2.4GHz band used to be configured in mixed mode B/G/N with wide 40MHz channel, but now only as B/G (no wide channel) since the neighborhood is too crowded.

5300 settings:
The channel width for band 5.2 is set to default (Auto). Used to set the channel width for band 2.4GHz to Auto, but now either value is fine since I'm not using the 2.4GHz band for wireless N anymore.

 

Thanks for your replay. My problem is that with the 5GHz band, my network card will not join with AES. However, I can join 5GHz with TKIP. But this is limiting me to 54Mbps.
This doesn't make sense to me, because I am on the 2.4GHz band with AES, no problem.

 

Have you ever set the 5GHz network as wireless N only?

 

I have. Did not work.