5GHZ Help

[pspfreak]

I have a Netgear WNDR4500 running dd-wrt, and even with no devices on the 5ghz band, The router still only reports the rate as 78MBPS. Theoretically this is a 450+450mbps dual band router. Yes I know I wont get anywhere near that. But for the price I payed for this damn thing I'd expect to get better than I did with my old netgear something cheap-piece-of-shit router.

 

Here is the Status page.  

The eth1 is my samsung galaxy player 5.0, and that is on 2.4ghz

The wl0.1 is my parents pc. This is on 2.4ghz.

 

As you can see no devices on 5GHZ, yet rate so slow?

 

Edit: By the way this router is configured to act as just an access point, so dhcp server is disabled.

[Darren]

Well the maximum attainable rate also depends on what the clients are capable of. Sure, you can have some fancy 450Mbps AP but if your client is some crappy Wireless G that can only do 54Mbps, you ain't getting more than 54Mbps. And as you can see by the signal quality in a nice little bar, you can easily see that the strength of the connection is less than ideal.

[pspfreak]

Well the maximum attainable rate also depends on what the clients are capable of. Sure, you can have some fancy 450Mbps AP but if your client is some crappy Wireless G that can only do 54Mbps, you ain't getting more than 54Mbps. And as you can see by the signal quality in a nice little bar, you can easily see that the strength of the connection is less than ideal.

Remember, thats 2.4ghz, and the clients are 2 floors down. I'm talking 5ghz, which no clients are connected to.

 

Also my 5ghz client is a centrino advanced-n 6205 i think.

[macpro622776]

How far away is your 5GHz client? Remember the range of 5GHz is less than 2.4GHz, and this is especially true through walls. If it is far away chances are its reporting a slower speed because the signal loss is too great. 78mbps is enough though, convert that to megabytes and you've got 8-9MB/s, which is pretty good. It'll be bottlenecked elsewhere anyway.

[Darren]

Remember, thats 2.4ghz, and the clients are 2 floors down. I'm talking 5ghz, which no clients are connected to.

 

Also my 5ghz client is a centrino advanced-n 6205 i think.

 

Wait, so complaining about a default rate because no negotiation has been made because there are no clients? Wow.

[pspfreak]

Here is with my laptop connected ~10 ft away.

 

Wait, so complaining about a default rate because no negotiation has been made because there are no clients? Wow.

Sorry I'm not an expert in wifi like you.

 

How far away is your 5GHz client? Remember the range of 5GHz is less than 2.4GHz, and this is especially true through walls. If it is far away chances are its reporting a slower speed because the signal loss is too great. 78mbps is enough though, convert that to megabytes and you've got 8-9MB/s, which is pretty good. It'll be bottlenecked elsewhere anyway.

For what I do, its not good. Thats why I bought a router like this. I wanted speed. I transfer a lot of files in-between my laptop and my server.

[macpro622776]

Here is with my laptop connected ~10 ft away.

 

For what I do, its not good. Thats why I bought a router like this. I wanted speed. I transfer a lot of files in-between my laptop and my server.

 

Are there any walls in between the client and router? If so what material is it?