Hello. I know my question has been asked before since I searched but there were no concrete answers so here is my question / situation...
I have AT&T Uverse 50 Mpbs down / 10 Mpbs up. House has 2 floors and I have 2 Asus RT-AC66U routers. One is in router mode and the other is the access point so this this way I have good coverage throughout the house.
Normally I don't perform speed test often and especially on WiFi but today I did and noticed that 2.4 ghz WiFi clients get download speeds of approximately 20 Mpbs which seems kind of slow. In comparison clients on 5 Ghz are getting over 50 Mbps.
I tried everything that I could think of which included the following:
-Unplugged / turned off all WiFi devices that I could find and think of
-Tried all sort of different WiFi options in the router..Auto, N only, different channel, 20 Mhz, 20/40 Mhz, etc...Made no difference
-Tried different laptops / phones - speed test was consistent on 2.4 ghz for all - around 20 Mbps
-Tried connecting to main router WiFi and then AP separately in case one of the routers is not working well - same result
-Both router and AP have latest firmware
Is this just how 2.4 Ghz network is and I should accept this or am I missing something and there is something else to check or try?
Right now I left the 2.4 WiFi settings like this:
AP: N Only / 20 Mhz / CH 1
Router: N Only / 20 Mhz / CH 11
Any advise, info or insight is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I have AT&T Uverse 50 Mpbs down / 10 Mpbs up. House has 2 floors and I have 2 Asus RT-AC66U routers. One is in router mode and the other is the access point so this this way I have good coverage throughout the house.
Normally I don't perform speed test often and especially on WiFi but today I did and noticed that 2.4 ghz WiFi clients get download speeds of approximately 20 Mpbs which seems kind of slow. In comparison clients on 5 Ghz are getting over 50 Mbps.
I tried everything that I could think of which included the following:
-Unplugged / turned off all WiFi devices that I could find and think of
-Tried all sort of different WiFi options in the router..Auto, N only, different channel, 20 Mhz, 20/40 Mhz, etc...Made no difference
-Tried different laptops / phones - speed test was consistent on 2.4 ghz for all - around 20 Mbps
-Tried connecting to main router WiFi and then AP separately in case one of the routers is not working well - same result
-Both router and AP have latest firmware
Is this just how 2.4 Ghz network is and I should accept this or am I missing something and there is something else to check or try?
Right now I left the 2.4 WiFi settings like this:
AP: N Only / 20 Mhz / CH 1
Router: N Only / 20 Mhz / CH 11
Any advise, info or insight is greatly appreciated.
Thanks