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  • Adapter
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  • Aztech
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  • Throughput
  • Internet
  • Asus
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October 17, 2014 2:54:52 AM

Hi, I'm looking for a software/utility that allows me to monitor my wifi throughput between my router and adapter, so that I can put my adapter antenna in a position for improved signal strength (more specifically download throughput to my adapter)

On Speedtest.net I am getting ~210Mbps download and ~225Mbps upload to my ISP, but my internet subscription is for 300Mbps bandwidth. I am looking to get the most out of my subscription.

Router provided by ISP:
http://www.aztech.com/prod_fiber_fg7002.html

Wifi adapter on my PC:
http://www.asus.com/Networking/PCEAC68/

Both operating on the 5Ghz band, no connection issues and 5/5 bars on Windows 7 64bit.

Wired/Powerline is not an option. Adapter is only ~5 meters away from router but a thin concrete wall in between. Other devices including laptop, smartphone, tablet are also connected to router on 2.4/5/5Ghz respectively, but they are all idle.

So yes just need a software to monitor router>adapter throughput. Hopefully free as well. Any help appreciated and thanks :) 

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October 17, 2014 3:05:18 AM

your not going to in real life get any more speed then you have now do to wifi over head and network over head.
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October 17, 2014 3:19:07 AM

You can see pretty well your traffic rates with the windows build in resource monitor. You should be extremely happy you get the rates you do it is well above what most people get. The only way you are going to get faster is if you replace your router with a 802.11ac

This site has done many controlled tests and they get nowhere near the rates on n450 you post so you have a much better environment.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar...

300m is also some big lie the ISP tell. When you read the fine print it likely says "maximum" rate. That means the technology has the ability to run at 300m if only one person is using it. They likely tell you and lot of your neighbors the same story and you share this 300m.

What is really bad is if you were to attempt to use the 300m for extended periods of time they will throttle you. The only application that can actually use this much bandwidth are torrents, most of which are downloading illegal content, and ISP tend to throttle torrents. Almost no other application comes close. You could stream multiple 4k hi def movies and not even come close to 300m.
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October 17, 2014 3:20:44 AM

smorizio said:
your not going to in real life get any more speed then you have now do to wifi over head and network over head.


The overhead can't possibly be so large that it impacts my connection on the 5Ghz band. On that band alone my router and adapter are capable of 450/1300Mbps respectively.

Anyway I'm just looking for the software so I can re-position my antenna to a better position.
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October 17, 2014 3:43:31 AM

bill001g said:
You can see pretty well your traffic rates with the windows build in resource monitor. You should be extremely happy you get the rates you do it is well above what most people get. The only way you are going to get faster is if you replace your router with a 802.11ac

This site has done many controlled tests and they get nowhere near the rates on n450 you post so you have a much better environment.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar...

300m is also some big lie the ISP tell. When you read the fine print it likely says "maximum" rate. That means the technology has the ability to run at 300m if only one person is using it. They likely tell you and lot of your neighbors the same story and you share this 300m.

What is really bad is if you were to attempt to use the 300m for extended periods of time they will throttle you. The only application that can actually use this much bandwidth are torrents, most of which are downloading illegal content, and ISP tend to throttle torrents. Almost no other application comes close. You could stream multiple 4k hi def movies and not even come close to 300m.


Your point on network usage does make sense. I have previously tried hooking up my Archer C7 to the ISP's router as access point but strangely I was getting lower speeds. The Fiber optic box has to connect to the provided router due to NAT address.

I might set it up again with a new firmware but for now I just want my adapter antenna in a better position.
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October 17, 2014 5:31:01 AM

huilun02 said:
bill001g said:
You can see pretty well your traffic rates with the windows build in resource monitor. You should be extremely happy you get the rates you do it is well above what most people get. The only way you are going to get faster is if you replace your router with a 802.11ac

This site has done many controlled tests and they get nowhere near the rates on n450 you post so you have a much better environment.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar...

300m is also some big lie the ISP tell. When you read the fine print it likely says "maximum" rate. That means the technology has the ability to run at 300m if only one person is using it. They likely tell you and lot of your neighbors the same story and you share this 300m.

What is really bad is if you were to attempt to use the 300m for extended periods of time they will throttle you. The only application that can actually use this much bandwidth are torrents, most of which are downloading illegal content, and ISP tend to throttle torrents. Almost no other application comes close. You could stream multiple 4k hi def movies and not even come close to 300m.


Your point on network usage does make sense. I have previously tried hooking up my Archer C7 to the ISP's router as access point but strangely I was getting lower speeds. The Fiber optic box has to connect to the provided router due to NAT address.

I might set it up again with a new firmware but for now I just want my adapter antenna in a better position.

Not sure what you are asking. If your neighbor is using 100m of bandwidth when you are testing it will impact your results. You do not have your own personal 300m connection to the internet.

Even if you were to get a new antenna you can only get 450m total. It is not 450m up and 450m down on wireless it is 450m combined. You are getting 435 which is very impressive. Now if you are testing UP and DOWN independently then it gets very messy. The router does not say do 225 down and 225 up to get the 450m. It dynamically changes the split favoring download but I have found no way determine how to change how this is done. It is hidden deep in the radio firmware. It is highly unlikely it would do 450m down and 0m up and then reverse that.

The only way you are going to get faster is to get rid of the 450m limit so maybe if it splits 866m 802.11ac 400m and 400m it will work better.
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October 17, 2014 6:12:06 AM

Something like Iperf

http://firstin-lastout.com/2013/07/how-to-test-wifi-spe...

So that I can take my time to find the best position for my antenna while looking at concurrent bandwidth.

Except I'm looking for something I can run just on my PC, which might not be possible looking at how Iperf works.
Perhaps some alternative to Speedtest.com that can keep running.
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October 17, 2014 7:24:42 AM

That is a very good tool. But it does need 2 pc to run. It is the best way to test the lan because you can generate a full gig of traffic if you work at it. There is a public iperf server that I have managed to get to run at over 500m from the connection here at work. http://iperf.scottlinux.com/

I would still use a second wired pc in your house as the source for the traffic if you have that option you will have far more control and know you are only testing your wireless and not all the stuff in the internet between you and this server....it is in california I think.
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October 17, 2014 7:41:33 AM

Cool!

I'm in Singapore and California is like, the other side of the planet.
The connection might not be fast enough to push 450Mb but I'll play around with it.
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October 17, 2014 7:44:58 AM

huilun02 said:
Cool!

I'm in Singapore and California is like, the other side of the planet.
The connection might not be fast enough to push 450Mb but I'll play around with it.


You can set it to UDP mode and tell it to send 10g if you wanted. How much comes out the other end though depends how big the ISP connection are between you and this site. They claim to have a 40g connection to their provider but I double there is that much bandwidth all the way to singapore....even if there is they would not be too happy if you attempted to use it all.

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7 minutes ago

Awesome it works.

I just ran the command "-c iperf.scottlinux.com -u -i 1 -l 1300 -b 300m -t 120" and it is able to show connection speed just like Speedtest but over any t value I gave it (it sets the connection time)

Moving my antenna around I managed to see up to 230Mbps but inconsistent because there is a lot network usage at this time and my sister is on her laptop. I guess I will try again tomorrow during work hours and maybe pinch her laptop to run server mode for my router.

Thanks so much!
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