high ping when using router as AP

leandronb

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hi guys, i recently bought a new tp link wdr3600 router, because i was having issues with my old pacific router but i am having the same issue with new router. i have a arris tg862 cable modem with 20mbps link, so it have two ethernet ports. one of them i plugged in the pc that was very near the modem, the other one i plugged in the lan port of wdr3600, deactivated dhcp, and everything works fine, but when i click a link on internet in my smartphone nexus 4, it waits like 2~3 seconds to start downloading the page, i am using a network monitor to see this.
but when i reset the router, plug in wan port it works very fast. i click a link and it just load, do not wait anything. the same thing was happening with my old router and i thought that the problem was the old router.
i tried with another short cable near the modem but the same problem appears, am i doing anything wrong?
wired speeds looks normal.
i forgot to say, when using as AP i can see my other pc and, but when using in wan mode i just can see my tv and my ps3. so when using on wan i just cant use my tv to get media from serviio in other pc because they dont see each other. but in my nexus 4 i can just access other pc in file explorer typing the lan ip.
 

RealBeast

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That is not a very user friendly gateway for setting options. Did you give the WDR3600 a static address in the arris tg862 static route table? Just plugging into an LAN port will not give you a reliable access point.

Have you tried using the wireless of the Arris gateway? I would expect that the reason the TP-Link connects faster when the WAN port is used is because it creates a separate subnet that doesn't need a static address in the Arris.

Also, you should check that both are not using the same wireless channel, which would cause interference.
 

leandronb

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i did not set a static ip in arris, i will try that when i get home.
i do not use arris wifi because of low range and slow speed.
i deactivated the arris wifi because i will not use anymore, but here where i live, i checked with my phone with an app, is just one wifi network in channel 1, mine is in channel 11, and the 5ghz one is in 36.
my wifi is very inconsistent too, sometimes it load a youtube video with 2MBps download and other time it just stays in 300KBps.
 

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