Hi, are you on 300mbps turbo? nice speeds

There is no problem for 2.4g for the whole house albeit slow a bit depending on the location. Could it be your laptop having some problems with the wifi?

Nope.. I’m on 500mbps turbo

If connect Lan I can get full speed.. my house got 10-12 WiFi devices so get this speed on WiFi is good enough for phones..

i got 3 laptops, all of them have slow download speed connecting to the 2.4g of the router downstairs.
then i also borrow my friend powerline adapter and put one of the adapter upstair with 2.4g wifi band also, and all my laptops can get good speed.

however i'm thinking to get a better router instead of powerline to solve this problem.

Hi Sifu's , I just bought tenda ac18 but found out that this router don't have mu-mimo , just shifted house now waiting for internet to be installed but at mean time I want to ask is this router for me?

I play online games mmo fps etc thru wifi, while wife and childrens will use the android tvbox iPhone ipad youtube etc, previously using lan cable no problem even if my bro torrenting also wont affect my gaming. but now new place I only can use wifi , I need consistent ping and I hate spikes , will this ac18 help? or I need to look for mu-mimo 4x4 routers?

both ur device need to have mimo tho

I see my pc using archer t9e pcie ac1900 card but spec din write mimo I assume its not compatible then,
but let say all my wife kids and device use 2.4ghz and my pc alone use 5ghz will my ping be smooth and uninterrupted?

SilentVampire

Last nite there was a bit crowd at the my house, just a small makan makan.

There were probably about 10 android devices + 5 IOS connected to the internet via the router wirelessly - mixture 2.4 & 5 g. 1 pc with Asus PCE-88 playing Fortnite (5 ghz), another pc with tp link T9e youtubing (2.4g) and a PS4 (Lan) playing Fifa 19.

When I had my AC86U, PCE-88 always connected to the router at least at 1.3G but now it is around 800m at best. The tp link also connected at lower speed. No changes were made on the setting at the client side.

However, no one complained of any lag. Yet, your case could be different from mine.

MU-MIMO doesn’t matter as much as you think. The hardware of the router matters more. Use the router first and see if it makes a difference to your speed. I would think not.

Probably but it doesn’t matter as much if you kids and wife is not doing anything that utilizes the bandwidth, or the CPU of the router.

Thank you for the tag.

This post has been edited by SilentVampire: Dec 20 2018, 01:54 PM

Finally flashed the AC18 to RT-AC68U_380.70_0-X7.9.

Speed test via LAN good can achieve UNIFI 800Mbps



But this is speedtest via 5G (My laptop using Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165) Laptop directly near router



speedtest via 2.4G


It's horribly lower than stock TPlink AC1200 wifi performance.

Any tips to improve my wifi speeds? Thank you.

This post has been edited by calvin_gsc: Dec 22 2018, 06:35 PM

Speed test via iPhone XS. Device directly near router

Connected via 5G


Connected via 2.4G


This post has been edited by calvin_gsc: Dec 22 2018, 06:12 PM

changed region? 80mhz also.

QOS ur wife n kid

Just searched the topic. Change to "all area" for region right? Will give it a try.

Intel AC 3165 is too old and only 1x1, max around 200 mbps.

Changed router Wi-Fi region to all area and enabled 5G @ 80mhz


Connected to 5G


Connected to 2.4G

hmmm much improved. and also i also used 3165 last time but i changed to 9260 already 2 months ago.

This post has been edited by prokiller1199: Dec 23 2018, 09:39 AM

I also use intel AC 9260. It supports MU-MIMO and 160 MHz channel width, which is beneficial with upcoming AX routers

Which method did you use to flash the merlin FW?