Access point low mpbs?

[Stever67]

I have over 300 mpbs running through ethernet into my garden room when I connect to another router that I have set up as an access point the speed goes down to 60 mpbs.. any ideas??

[Falcon1986]

7 minutes ago, Stever67 said:

I have over 300 mpbs running through ethernet into my garden room when I connect to another router that I have set up as an access point the speed goes down to 60 mpbs.. any ideas??

1. Make/model for all your network equipment, please. A diagram of how they're connected would help.
2. Type of ethernet cable?

[Stever67]

The main router is a virgin hub3 then I have a cat6 ethernet cable running from the hub3 directly to a dlink615.. I have disabled the DHCP on the dlink router and made the IP address the same as the virgin router .. the dlink router then has an Ethernet cable plugged into a firestick for streaming music and TV  and I have an Amazon speaker and phones( when down there) connected via WiFi 

[Falcon1986]

5 minutes ago, Stever67 said:

The main router is a virgin hub3 then I have a cat6 ethernet cable running from the hub3 directly to a dlink615.. I have disabled the DHCP on the dlink router and made the IP address the same as the virgin router .. the dlink router then has an Ethernet cable plugged into a firestick for streaming music and TV  and I have an Amazon speaker and phones( when down there) connected via WiFi 

I assume the instructions you followed for AP mode setup were similar to these.

 

What are your LAN IP settings for the Hub 3 and D-Link 615? (Include LAN IP, subnet mask, gateway, DNS, etc. for each.)

[Stever67]

I followed a YouTube video of how to set it all up..the hub3 didn't seem to have anywhere for me to check the lan settings .. I made a note of the IP address and on the dlink went in a changed the IP address to the same as the hub3 ( I guess that's right) i have to admit I'm very clueless to it all .. with the settings I've changed I can get everything to work but can't figure out why the Ethernet speeds drops so much when it runs through the dlink first... I just need a better easier way to have my firestick connected to the Ethernet and also have WiFi in the garden room as mobile data is non existent down there 

[Falcon1986]

3 hours ago, Stever67 said:

I made a note of the IP address and on the dlink went in a changed the IP address to the same as the hub3 ( I guess that's right) i have to admit I'm very clueless to it all

Two devices cannot have the exact same IP address on the same network. They must be different for them to properly communicate with each other and the other devices on the network.

 

So if your Hub 3’s LAN IP is 192.168.1.1, then your AP should have an IP of anything other than that, but within the same subnet, e.g. 192.168.1.2. Standard subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and gatway/DNS of 192.168.1.1 (i.e. so clients can be forwarded to the Hub 3). I’ll also advise you set 192.168.1.2 (or whichever LAN IP you use for the D-Link) as a static IP outside of the Hub 3’s DHCP pool; maybe bind it by MAC address to the IP.

 

I recommend you go through the AP setup using the link I mentioned before to ensure what you followed on Youtube matches what you should have done.

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 hours ago, Stever67 said:

I have over 300 mpbs running through ethernet into my garden room when I connect to another router that I have set up as an access point the speed goes down to 60 mpbs.. any ideas??

If this is the DIR-615 then its positively ancient and you're doing well getting 60Mbit out of it.

 

Its a 2.4Ghz only 802.11n device with only 100Mbit ethernet ports.