Hi,

Thanks for having this informative thread. Highly appreciate it.

I got a few questions with regards to achieving maximum wifi speed. Please bear with me. Many thanks in advance for any response received.

I'll be receiving the Unifi Turbo upgrade soon, (within two weeks as advised by TM via phone call yesterday), from 30Mbps to 300Mbps. Below are my current 30Mbps setup. FYI, I'm staying in a double storey terrace. Router is downstairs in the living room next to the fibre termination point.





My computer is upstairs. Wifi extended via the Tenda A9 below.



I was told that TM's tech will be coming over to do some setting & change the router. I would assume they's be providing the stock TP-Link AC1200 (correct me if I'm wrong).

I was told, contract will be reset due to the router change or RM200 will be billed if I opt not to reset my contract. I opted to to be billed the RM200.

My questions:

1. Would it possible to change my mind and say no to the new router & purchase my own? If yes, what could I get for, let say budget of RM300.
2. Or, if I don't mind the contract reset, use the stock router first & buy new router later? Is the AC1200 any good, sufficient for double storey terrace?
3. And lastly, how do I achieve a reasonable wifi speed for my devices located upstairs; ie. my desktop computer, my kid's tablet, phones and what not. I read few threads not recommending wifi extender like what I'm using currently. What other solutions are out there?

Many thanks again.

Thank you for your feedback AVFAN & FusionXY. Much appreciated!

i was just turboed to 300mbps but is still on dlink wbr2300 which support only up to N protocol.
I am only getting 55mbps the most under N, is this acceptable?  I thought N can goes up till 300mbps?

After scouring through the threads at LYN, if (this is a big IF) I go for TP-LINK Archer C3150:

1. Will it just be an overkill?

2. Or will It consider future proofing?

3. Better router = better coverage, no?

Many thanks again for any feedback given.

1. Nope, it won’t be an overkill.

2. Yes, it will be future proofing.

3. Much better coverage if you use C3150.

It is a very stable and good router, and definitely worth it.
Cheers for the tag.

Cheers SilentVampire. Much appreciated

Good to see that you manage to get such speed. From my side here, I can't seem to get that kind of speed. I am using Asus RT-AC66U which support 1300Mbps at 5Ghz and TPLink Archer T8E PCI-E which also support 1300Mbps at 5GHz. I can get a link of 1.3Gbps but the transfer speed I only can get 3XXMbps.

Distance between router is around 8 feet and nothing between them. Tried all the channels but the max I can get is still 3XXMbps. is there anything that I am missing out? Having this issue for years but cant seem to find the problem.

No no, I am only using 30Mbps plan but I am not referring to ISP. I am doing WiFi Transfer within my own network and the ISP internet speed should not be in the Picture.

Tried setting the bandwidth to 20/40/80MHz, didnt help much in my case.

highest channel is 48.
set to channel 48, 80mhz, ac only. still the same.
is that possible arising from bandwidth limit of the wifi? but i couldnt find the setting to adjust the bandwidth for my tplink c9

any problems with the setting below? everything is in default

Hi, just wondering, the below image refers. It that normal for a 300 Mbps connection? This is from a OnePlus 5.

Router is Archer C3150.

My wife's iPhone 8 managed to get 250++

Thank you.

Hey guys I have a noob question :

If my laptop only supported for 1x1 wifi band and I'm using Lan cable for wired connection. And I don't get the designated speed.

Is it related to my laptop technology or..

My apologies how to check Lan ports specs?

Hi,

This is what i have,

Time 500mbps
router: TP-Link c1200
modem: Huawei EchoLife HG8240H

Laptop: Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 (2 x 2)
PC: TP-Link Archer T4U USB Wifi Adapter (2 antenna and support MU-MIMO, 2x2 correct me if im wrong) connected to USB3 port
phone: note 9 ("enhanced 4 x 4")

all support 802.11ac and i connect my devices to the 5ghz band.
speedtest using a few different tools such as ookla speedtest all gave me similar results pretty consistently.
DL: ~250mbps  UL: 300 - 400mbps
all settings at default/auto

Also tried manually configured afew things as suggested above such as setting channel width to 80mhz, change channel and so on

if i specify cahnnel width to 20Mhz, the speed does go down, so it indeed affect the speed.
after changed to 20mhz: DL: ~150mbps  UL: ~90mbps

Am i missing anything? (i actually created ticket to Time to ask for technician to check, pending respond)

Hi you work with Time? actual performance vs spec so much difference? I'm sad. Anyway i have contacted Time and waiting for the technician to call, i'll get them to confirm the issue first.

Thanks for the info.

Time technician called me and this is what he said
it's normal to not reach the max 500 mpbs for wifi and 250 mbps is normal although the router support higher than that.
So i asked why my friend same router can reach 490mbps , he said no guarantee one and 250 is acceptable(not to me) and i only need to worry if LAN cannot reach that speed.
Currently don't have LAN cable cannot test that.

hate the fact that the router differ so much interms of actual performance vs spec(and my friend does get 590mbps with same router). I understand the words  "up to" but still...haha thanks for the info.
may be the wifi can run that speed but cpu and ram of the router cannot handle?
if my LAN gets near 500 then i will get another router. Thanks again

i clarified with him again, he is using ec230-g1 connected to the modem then extend it with the deco m5.
Just now when he test again the speed, connected to the ec230-g1 he only get 50mbps lol
connected to the deco m5 he gets 230 mbps, seems like his connection is worse than mine, not sure if he got connected to the right band or not.
the 490 mbps one he got it when he first setup his mesh router, he mentioned may be because that time only himself was connected.

thanks for the video, so basically my(no wall, within 5 m) speed is similar to his with the wall in between.

could it be that Huawei EchoLife HG8240H the bottleneck?

could it be that Huawei EchoLife HG8240H the bottleneck?

not cheap, may be later find one cheaper one aha
I tested lan cable can go up to 450mbps(is that normal? thought it should near 500 like 480+), so like what you said, really the router wifi capability cannot la. Today testa bit better, able to get up to 300mbps depending on the server i chose.
later got budget change to a better router.

need to google how to do that, by the way is my router due to the lacking of "MU-MIMO" thing?