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Asus RT-AC3200
I'm having an issue where WAN speeds are fine, but internal LAN speeds between clients is very slow (specifically transmit speeds look capped??) in that streaming on the network keeps buffering.
1. QoS is off
2. I've tried stock firmware, merlin and dd-wrt firmwares all with default settings and other varations that 'should' work for best compatibility.
3. I've tried singling it down to a specific band 2.4ghz and 5ghz-1 and 5ghz-2 and the outcome is the same regardless.
The router that it is replacing is an old Buffalo Wireless N and the config worked fine (and still does).
I know that it CAN work because this is the 2nd AC3200 I have had because the first one was returned due to a non working band (which it turns out appears to have been DD-WRT that did that). The previous one had the same issue as this one, except in twiddling with settings at some point I hit the magic combination that made everything work on 5ghz flawlessly.
These devices are all wireless - but that is how it has always been and I can swap out the old router and the new router and the old router works as expected (additionally as I stated above, all these clients have no issues with high speeds to the WAN on the new router).
I am pretty sure this is not a hardware issue, but simply a setting issue. I can't use stock firmware because port forwarding is broken in it so I prefer to use merlin or dd-wrt.
What I do see that I've never really paid attention to before is that on the new router the TX rates are substantially lower than the RX rates. Is this normal? IE: Tx:39 Rx:130 (on low settings on 2.4ghz). On the old router they show as mostly the same IE: Tx:130 Rx:130 or slightly higher than the Rx. Is there a specific setting that might be causing this (I've searched, but haven't had luck on anything specific).
I know it is probably something simple, and I'll keep digging, but waiting for reboots, client reboots, page loads etc on routers is so time consuming...ugh. I've been bashing my head on this a few days now.
I'm having an issue where WAN speeds are fine, but internal LAN speeds between clients is very slow (specifically transmit speeds look capped??) in that streaming on the network keeps buffering.
1. QoS is off
2. I've tried stock firmware, merlin and dd-wrt firmwares all with default settings and other varations that 'should' work for best compatibility.
3. I've tried singling it down to a specific band 2.4ghz and 5ghz-1 and 5ghz-2 and the outcome is the same regardless.
The router that it is replacing is an old Buffalo Wireless N and the config worked fine (and still does).
I know that it CAN work because this is the 2nd AC3200 I have had because the first one was returned due to a non working band (which it turns out appears to have been DD-WRT that did that). The previous one had the same issue as this one, except in twiddling with settings at some point I hit the magic combination that made everything work on 5ghz flawlessly.
These devices are all wireless - but that is how it has always been and I can swap out the old router and the new router and the old router works as expected (additionally as I stated above, all these clients have no issues with high speeds to the WAN on the new router).
I am pretty sure this is not a hardware issue, but simply a setting issue. I can't use stock firmware because port forwarding is broken in it so I prefer to use merlin or dd-wrt.
What I do see that I've never really paid attention to before is that on the new router the TX rates are substantially lower than the RX rates. Is this normal? IE: Tx:39 Rx:130 (on low settings on 2.4ghz). On the old router they show as mostly the same IE: Tx:130 Rx:130 or slightly higher than the Rx. Is there a specific setting that might be causing this (I've searched, but haven't had luck on anything specific).
I know it is probably something simple, and I'll keep digging, but waiting for reboots, client reboots, page loads etc on routers is so time consuming...ugh. I've been bashing my head on this a few days now.
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