Transfer Speeds on LAN and 5GHz are half as slow as they should be

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As the title syas, my LAN and 5GHz transfer speeds are way lower then they should be. I have a Netgear N750 Gigabit router rated at 750 Gbps. My desktop on LAN (everything in the house is Cat 5e) only gets 64 Mbps on transfer. My laptop on the 5 GHz band is getting about 168 Mbps on transfer. My laptop in the internet properties is giving me a 300 Mbps rating and the desktop 100 Mbps. I used a 2.5 GB file for reference and tried multiple transfers. Everything (switches, lan ports, etc) all have a rating of 1000Gbps. Why am I not getting the speeds I should here?? Is there a setting in windows or my router that I should have enabled or something? I realize that everything isnt going to run at top speed but this isnt even close. Any ideas??
 
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If you are getting 168m on a wireless connection you are getting a great number. The 750 is as close to a lie as you can get without getting in trouble. First they added the 2.4g speed and 5g speed together. So that is 300m + 450m but a single machines can not use both at the same time, they are rating it on multiple machines. Then if you take the 450m that is a total bandwidth with upload and download added together. That would be like calling a 1g ethernet a 2g line except a ethernet can actually run 1g up and 1g down. The wireless is a best case lab condition with no interference.

If you get 65m and your desktop says it is running at 100m then 65m is a little low but not unreasonable. Make sure you have the setting to...
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If you are getting 168m on a wireless connection you are getting a great number. The 750 is as close to a lie as you can get without getting in trouble. First they added the 2.4g speed and 5g speed together. So that is 300m + 450m but a single machines can not use both at the same time, they are rating it on multiple machines. Then if you take the 450m that is a total bandwidth with upload and download added together. That would be like calling a 1g ethernet a 2g line except a ethernet can actually run 1g up and 1g down. The wireless is a best case lab condition with no interference.

If you get 65m and your desktop says it is running at 100m then 65m is a little low but not unreasonable. Make sure you have the setting to auto. Then it is a matter of figuring out why it does not negotiate to gig speed, generally it is a bad cable but some equipment is just stubborn.
 
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Wow that's really disheartening. That auto setting is on Windows or the router? Also sitting right next to the router with my laptop I'm just stuck at half me 5.0 band is rated? I guess I'm going back shopping for something better. Is there routers that have a true 750Mbps 5.0GHz band or do all companies market this same way? Thanks for your speedy reply!
 
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The router I doubt can be changed but it needs to be auto if you can. It is in the setting for the driver for your ethernet card on your PC.

You are actually getting far above the numbers you see in testing sites, they get about 80-90m on 750 but then again if you are testing sitting next to the router it will run faster. The fastest device are the 802.11ac device that claim 1200m just on the 5m side. To do this they need a adapter with 4 antenna on both ends and it is very rare to find on a pc and impossible on a laptop or phone/tablet. Even then the test sites maybe get 250m average and can get maybe 500m sitting on top of the router.

For speed you really need to use ethernet and normally it just works at 1g without any messing around. Most times it is a cable problem when it doesn't
 
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Alright I'll do some looking into my lan connections and see if I can get some more speed. Last question, what about the Google router that came out boasting 1900Mbps? How is that even possible?
 
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Not sure what router you mean but there are commercial router that have 10g ethernet interfaces in them. Anything that uses dedicated point to point media will be fast. The main issue with consumer wireless is it a shared media. Even if you ignore that it is shared between many different people it is shared between the device you own. It has no real control over who can use the radio bandwidth at any time. It is sorta like a road intersection without any street light and lots of cars. There are wireless systems used to connect distant building together. Since this uses a different method that appear as dedicated transmit and receive they can get close to a true gig connection.
 
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