I need help ladies and gents. I have two FIOS routers: One is a quantum gateway, the other is the actiontec rev I. I want to use both. The primary is the quantum gateway hooked to coax with DHCP enabled on channel 11, and the speed is great, max, full, no problems. I have the revision I set up as slave on 192.168.1.2 on channel 6, and I see that it is working fine, but when I run a speed test, it ramps up to a fast speed sometimes, then quickly drops off to a snail speed, but it usually stays snail speed on wifi, even though ethernet is full speed. WHY? Both routers are only being used in the rooms they are in, I don't need the signal to run any further than that.
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What do you mean exactly by "as a slave" - is it set up properly as an access point?
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This sort of sounds like you might be connected at 150mbps instead of 300mbps - the speed seems to indicate that.
802.11n compliant routers should only use 20MHz channel width when there are neighboring networks that are overlapping the channel you are on, so it's possible that your router revers from 40MHz channel width to 20MHz because of that.
Use software like inSSIDer (earlier versions were free, up to v3 i think) to check which channels are occupied and change the channel Actiontec is using if necessary. Also make sure that it's set to Auto or 40MHz channel width, not 20MHz. -
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I don't mean overlap between your two routers but between yours and neighbors'.
You won't be able to see all of the 2.4GHz devices anyway since it's an open band but Wi-Fi is by far the most popular thing using it so it's the most likely culprit. -
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So it was interference, just not from Wi-Fi - a lot of devices use 2.4GHz band from child monitors through Bluetooth to all those proprietary wireless mice and keyboards - none of which would show on inSSIDer graph because none is Wi-Fi.
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Help me get proper wifi speed
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Raidriar, Dec 13, 2015.