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Update: tl;dr: Don't trust Speedtest.net for wireless throughput testing.
Hey all! I'll preface this with I've been searching the forums and the internet for help with this but haven't found much that was pertinent.
I just moved to a new apartment where gigabit fiber is available. I jumped at the chance to get it for cheap, and due to some odd VLAN port mapping requirements I bought a new router capable of doing it. I purchased the ASUS GT-AC5300 since I've always kind of liked the arachnid look, and a few people I know have other ASUS routers (RT-AC5300 and others) and praise them.
I've gotten everything setup and things have been great. All my wired systems are getting 900+Mbit up and down and wifi signal strength is excellent everywhere in my apartment - I've just noticed a concerning trend with speedtests over wireless.
All my speedtests are to the local ISP server, and wired devices show there is no throughput issue here, pictured above.
Wireless, however, is being a bit odd - Every device I have tested (multiple smartphones, multiple laptops) has shown a consistent limit to download throughput (around 225 Mbit), while uploads are great (400-600+Mbit).
Laptop
Phone
I've tried messing with every setting that exists on both the router and on each device to no avail. All the devices have the appropriate 867Mbit link speed during testing, and these speeds are very consistent across several tests on all devices tested.
I've run some network profiling with the built-in software on the router, and the area is quite messy with other networks:
Is this just a case of interference from all the neighboring networks causing slower downloads? If so, why would it not affect the upload speeds?
Also, both of the 5 G networks pictured above perform nearly identically (within margin of error) despite a difference in strong network signals in the network scanning. If it was interference, wouldn't they perform differently depending on how many networks are overlapping?
Edit: Blocked out SSID names.
Hey all! I'll preface this with I've been searching the forums and the internet for help with this but haven't found much that was pertinent.
I just moved to a new apartment where gigabit fiber is available. I jumped at the chance to get it for cheap, and due to some odd VLAN port mapping requirements I bought a new router capable of doing it. I purchased the ASUS GT-AC5300 since I've always kind of liked the arachnid look, and a few people I know have other ASUS routers (RT-AC5300 and others) and praise them.
I've gotten everything setup and things have been great. All my wired systems are getting 900+Mbit up and down and wifi signal strength is excellent everywhere in my apartment - I've just noticed a concerning trend with speedtests over wireless.
All my speedtests are to the local ISP server, and wired devices show there is no throughput issue here, pictured above.
Wireless, however, is being a bit odd - Every device I have tested (multiple smartphones, multiple laptops) has shown a consistent limit to download throughput (around 225 Mbit), while uploads are great (400-600+Mbit).
Laptop
Phone
I've tried messing with every setting that exists on both the router and on each device to no avail. All the devices have the appropriate 867Mbit link speed during testing, and these speeds are very consistent across several tests on all devices tested.
I've run some network profiling with the built-in software on the router, and the area is quite messy with other networks:
Is this just a case of interference from all the neighboring networks causing slower downloads? If so, why would it not affect the upload speeds?
Also, both of the 5 G networks pictured above perform nearly identically (within margin of error) despite a difference in strong network signals in the network scanning. If it was interference, wouldn't they perform differently depending on how many networks are overlapping?
Edit: Blocked out SSID names.
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