- Aug 28, 2001
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I'm on a 200/200 Fios plan but speedtest shows I hit 300Mbps consistently. The G1100 router (2.4GHz wifi - channel 1) is hooked up at one end of the house (office where the ONT is) and I subsequently added an access point with a TP-Link C7 (2.4GHz wifi - channel 11) in the middle of the house to serve the kitchen/living room and upstairs opposite end of the house. The SSIDs are the same as each other but channels are different which is what's needed to make an AP work. I also have 5GHz set up similarly.
1) When I initially set this up, I read that moving through the house with my phone, it should seemlessly switch to the other AP but that doesn't appear to be happening in a timely manner. Why? I connected to the TP-Link wifi to speedtest and subsequently walked back to my office where the G1100 router is and have started posting this thread on my PC. My connection on my phone still says it's connected to the TP-Link after 5 minutes. EDIT> It actually switched properly after I finished posting this, but this process seems slow and ineffective? Does it only do a periodic query for switching to the best available signal?
2) Why are my wifi speeds standing right next to either router connected to that specific router (evident via mac address) still resulting in only 40-50Mbps when the 2.4GHz max is supposedly 300Mbps? 5GHz testing reveals closer to 150Mbps, BUT only sometimes which is also frustrating. I realize there's other factors including interference, but these are so far off from expectations that I'm questioning whether I've set up correctly.
1) When I initially set this up, I read that moving through the house with my phone, it should seemlessly switch to the other AP but that doesn't appear to be happening in a timely manner. Why? I connected to the TP-Link wifi to speedtest and subsequently walked back to my office where the G1100 router is and have started posting this thread on my PC. My connection on my phone still says it's connected to the TP-Link after 5 minutes. EDIT> It actually switched properly after I finished posting this, but this process seems slow and ineffective? Does it only do a periodic query for switching to the best available signal?
2) Why are my wifi speeds standing right next to either router connected to that specific router (evident via mac address) still resulting in only 40-50Mbps when the 2.4GHz max is supposedly 300Mbps? 5GHz testing reveals closer to 150Mbps, BUT only sometimes which is also frustrating. I realize there's other factors including interference, but these are so far off from expectations that I'm questioning whether I've set up correctly.