Was helping my friend over the phone to help improve his unifi speed after he was turbo-ed to 500mbps
and he was getting only 100 mbps speedtest max on a dlink dir-850l so I suggested he buy a couple of cat6 cables which he did.

After replacing the cables he got even worse speeds like less than 10 mbps. Swapping in his old cables he got
about 100 mbps. After some troubleshooting including a teamviewer session or 2 i noticed that he was sometimes
getting 10mbps and 100mbps link speed between his PC and router.

So after much cajoling and wheedling plus a promise of free beer, I trekked over to his house to see what was up.
Turns out that he was running his brand new cat6 alongside the cable of his power strip so the electromagnetic
interference was causing his link to be inconsistently detected as 100 or even 10 mbps. Re-routing his
cables solved the low link speed (1Gbps) though it got us only 350-400 mbps which I took as a win.

So if you are inexplicably getting lower than expected link speeds between network devices and you
know your cables are good and both devices are correctly configured for 1Gbps you might want to
check if you cables are being run near and parallel(along side) to mains voltage power lines. If your network cable
has to cross a power line make sure it does it at as oblique an angle as possible preferably 90 degrees
to minimize interference. If circumstances require you to route your power and data lines along the same path
try to maintain at least 6" of separation.

Update on the new setup.

- Using new router, ASUS RT-AC58U with CAT 6 cable, and the results are:






Total cost: MYR 420.00 with 2 CAT 6 cables. 1 for connecting the router to BTU. The other for testing purpose.

If you quote post...read carefully.....router is mentioned....

T6E on DIR-842 expect around 500Mbps maximum on 5Ghz on good signal condition.

On poor signal expect 200-300Mbps.

PCIE wireless adapter is miles better than USB based ones.

Consider getting Archer T9E.

Should be fine but I highly recommend the T9E for a more significant improvement.

IMHO, MU-MIMO potential is very limited unless most of the devices in your network is MU-MIMO ready.

Intel Wireless AC 9560/9260 ONLY HAS 2 STREAM Please dont be fooled by the 1.73Gbps link speed which you can only achieve by using 160Mhz Channel width (which there is not alot of router/AP have 160Mhz Channel width capability)
Please read the 1st page please

hi sifu, need some help. I bought 2nd-hand dlink dwa-192 & install lasted driver in win10, tested wifi speed result not good in 5ghz (5mbps download, 100 mbps upload). But change to 2.4 ghz & tested is stable(150mbps download, 100mbps upload). my router is asus rt-ac66u flashed merlin 380.7.

*SOLVED. need to make some setting in win10. Tested again in 5GHZ get 430mbps download & 100mbps upload.==!

Walao Eh! For high speed need do setting in windows. ggwp

Thanks. I tried again still same. Start out hitting 40MB/s, then became 30 MB/s, then 20 MB/s all the way to the end. Doing speedtest while downloading still full speed. I will let it be till I figure out why somewhere down the road.
May I know what is your desired outcome?
It seems you just buy hardware slightly better than the previous one each round.

You might as well just go ballistic and buy the best. That way you just need to spend the money once

good morning gurus, need some info

I got turbo'ed from 50 to 500 last night.
I have the required equipment to get up to that speed
- fiberhome modem
- DIR 850L wifi router
- cables I confirmed use both cat5e and cat6 to test.

I can't get the speed at all. only 100 up and 100 down using both TM's and Speedtest portal speed test. both wired and wireless (5Ghz).

I have logged a technical report to TM, they informed me that, if in any event that it is my equipment that are 'faulty'. I am to be charged with RM53 ringgit for the service work. Is this new?? Anyhow, all equipment that I owned is provided by TM... wonder what is my equipment(s).

DIR-878 is a good buy. Unless later hardware revisions have changed it, it is essentially the same as DIR-882.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wi...router-reviewed

Hi  guys. I just got the sms that my unifi has been turboed few days ago. Previously with the 10Mbps package and was told my package has been turboed to 100Mbps.

Restarted my modem and router for 10min and after doing speedtest using Tm speed test using 2 different laptop and a phone device. All I got is only constant 20mbps download speed with LAN/Wifi(laptop). Wondering whats probably wrong with my devices or Lan Cable?

Currently using the Huawei HG8240W and TPLINK AC1200. I know the A1200 can support up to 300mbps. Maybe my Huawei HG8240W fault? Both are free units from TM. Minta shed a bit light from fellow sifu here. Thanks hehe.

I have been rereading the first page about the wired part. The BTU model should support it. The router model should support it. The PC should support it. The networks cables I bought should support it. At this point I think I should call TM and get it sorted out.