speed of transfer is base on your wifi speed and not yor usb speed. if u wan pure usb3.0 speed, just plug it directly to yor usb3.0 port on yor laptop or test again using cat5e/cat6 cable.

from yor screenshot, i can c that it is transferring at max possible speed for your intel n 6230, 62MB/s = 544Mb/s
(MB/s = megabyte per sec, Mb/s = megabit per sec)

i would suggest you read this article.

http://www.speedguide.net/faq/what-is-the-...of-wireless-374
http://routerguide.net/setting-up-20-mhz-o...rk-performance/
credit: http://www.itworld.com/article/2756011/mob...om-802-11n.html

please understand that no matter how fast the input is, the output cannot cope with the speed of the input.
its like having a large pipe that flows in the water to the tank, but have a smaller pipe that distribute throughout the house, u dont expect that all these pipe can flow as fast as the input pipe.

from yor screenshot, it is quite good for that speed over wifi.
but from yor another screenshot, it does look horrible.

question will be on that horrible 1.74MB/s, where were u testing it when compare to the 67MB/s?

ic, i have misunderstood yor 2nd post previously.

if u r near to the router and that was the speed, than it is really sux.

try this tool and check if yor area is that channel flooded.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_view.html

try different channel and try using network cable, this should be able to test the raw speed of the nas performance, than compare to wifi.

If I ever tried to use LAN cable, then I would rather use the direct connection to my USB 3.0 external HDD instead, why bother the Asus NAS capability as per advertised in your website?

I do understand that the router's specifications are expected to be lower if compared to a full fledged NAS. But the maximum throughput that I've tested are just way too below the expectation as per advertised in your website:

Data Rate
802.11n : up to 300 Mbps
802.11ac : up to 867 Mbps

Actual Test Results (SCP Protocol):
Upload: 0.45 Mbps
Download: 0.7 Mbps

Just bear in mind that even the now-aging USB 2.0 standard can theoretically transfer data at a very high 480 Megabits per second (Mbps). 

Probably a CPU limitation. Check your router's CPU usage. If it goes to 100% when transferring at 1.74MB/s then that's all you gonna get. What can I say? It's a router not an NAS.

Even my old DLink DNS-323 "NAS" only serves files at about 3-4MB/s. The older model Airport Extreme Base Station and my Mikrotik RB751G both do 2-3MB/s. Test were done using SMB. I'm currently using an RB2011 with a faster CPU so it may fare a bit better.

SCP will be slower compared to NFS/Samba, especially when it uses a "stronger" encryption method. Regardless, it does look slow, even my raspi can deliver more than that on 802.11n.

Check on your cpu usage and have you set any QoS/firewall settings?

Remove the QoS and try again.

I don't have any experience with Asus router's web interface, but afaik unless you've set a specific filter to limit it to a subnet/domain/ip/port/interface, otherwise it would apply the rule for all packets.

what I meant is if you didn't set any filter on any particular subnet/domain/ip/port/interface, your qos should be applied for both lan and wan.
https://www.asus.com/support/faq/113967/

There are two QoS rule for the 80 port, (1) Web surf and (2) File Transfer. If the each 80 port cumulated session size under 512 KB, it may be a normal web surfing.
If the cumulated session size over 512KB, it may be a file download via 80 port.
The purpose of our default rules is to set file transfer with low priority and it would not influence the web surfing.
If you want the high file download speed via HTTP, you can modified the default rules.
* The cumulated session size is summation of upload stream and download stream.

Hi ericlawyh,

The QoS issue is 2 years ago, do you have this problem when you enabling the QoS?

Thank you

Hi ericlawyh,

Thank you for the information, may I know when you connected to the 5GHz, what is the data rate that you get for your WiFi.

Thank you

Is there any firmware upgrade for AC1200HP? Saw Padavan firmware but not sure I can upgrade using that third party FW or not..

Play with my RT-AC1200HP, my RT-AC1200HP more powerful   
- Wireless file transfer using normal Windows Explorer Copy & Paste: 3.08MB/s

did you tried removing the qos?

Hi ericlawyh,

I am still waiting the reply from my RD, will get back to you ASAP.

Thank you

not exactly a technical question, but i bought the n14uhp a few days ago, and found that performance is on par as the existing Maxis fiber router. I guess i probably want to go for the AC router since there is a lot of N wireless networks in my condo.

do you think i can exchange this n14uhp for the ac55uhp?

actually i just wanted to rant..

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