Only getting 100mbps internal...

[Jsmith2211]

Ok, so i recently upgraded the networking in my house so it should actualy work... i bought a nighthawk x6 from netgear and plugged that into a gigabit switch. That is connected into the homehub 4 (the gigabit port,)and the switch also connects to the NAS. For some reason, i can only get 100mbps over the 5GHZ-1 band... it says it should go up to 1300mbps...

[knightslugger]

Is that what it says your connection speed is in the wifi adapter pane?

[Jsmith2211]

Screenshot

[Jsmith2211]

The router box said it should do 1300 on each 5GHZ band

[Jsmith2211]

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1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

Is that what it says your connection speed is in the wifi adapter pane?

I have a AC56 wifi card from asus, the AC1300 varient if that helps

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, Joelsome said:

The router box said it should do 1300 on each 5GHZ band

That's marketing bullcrap.

It's a combination of all the bands, 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and is also in a lab setup with perfect conditions.

[Claryn]

That is a theoretical maximum. You won't experience that in real-world use.

[Jsmith2211]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

That's marketing bullcrap.

It's a combination of all the bands, 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and is also in a lab setup with perfect conditions.

It said with a combo of all of them it could get 3.1Gbps... I aggree about perfect conditions, but file transfers run at 11.6Mega Bytes a second, which isnt 585mbps

 

1 minute ago, Claryn said:

That is a theoretical maximum. You won't experience that in real-world use.

ik, but ^^^^^^^

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, Joelsome said:

It said with a combo of all of them it could get 3.1Gbps... I aggree about perfect conditions, but file transfers run at 11.6Mega Bytes a second, which isnt 585mbps

 

ik, but ^^^^^^^

Hmmm, that's 100Mbit exactly (with overhead).

What model is your NAS?

[Jsmith2211]

Just now, Lurick said:

Hmmm, that's 100Mbit exactly (with overhead).

What model is your NAS?

I built it myself, and it can sustain 60MBps over wired, with bursts of 100-300MBps (bytes).

[WereCatf]

27 minutes ago, Joelsome said:

That is connected into the homehub 4 (the gigabit port,)

The Homehub 4 has ony gigabit-port and 3 100Mbps-ports. It looks like your traffic is going through the Homehub.

[brwainer]

If the switch is a smart/managed switch, log into it and check the link speed on the NAS and the Nighthawk. If it isn’t smart or managed, then look at the lights to try to determine what speed each connection is at. It sounds like one of your ethernet cables isn’t making a good connection and is dropping down to 100Mb

[Claryn]

Are you confusing yourself with Mbs and MBps? Yes, there is a difference. Network speeds are usually mentioned in bits per secondd, Mbps. While we talk about storage with bytes, MB and then MBps. If you have a 10Gbit connection, you will only get transferspeeds of ~1GBps, because there are 8 bits in a byte.

 

Also, you cannot merge a 2.4GHz band and a 5GHz band for more performance.

[Jsmith2211]

19 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

The Homehub 4 has ony gigabit-port and 3 100Mbps-ports. It looks like your traffic is going through the Homehub.

all the things are plugged into the gigabit switch, then from that one lead goes into the homehub.

 

6 minutes ago, brwainer said:

If the switch is a smart/managed switch, log into it and check the link speed on the NAS and the Nighthawk. If it isn’t smart or managed, then look at the lights to try to determine what speed each connection is at. It sounds like one of your ethernet cables isn’t making a good connection and is dropping down to 100Mb

the switch i am using doesnt tell me, i will try a different one and report back.

 

5 minutes ago, Claryn said:

Are you confusing yourself with Mbs and MBps? Yes, there is a difference. Network speeds are usually mentioned in bits per secondd, Mbps. While we talk about storage with bytes, MB and then MBps. If you have a 10Gbit connection, you will only get transferspeeds of ~1GBps, because there are 8 bits in a byte.

 

Also, you cannot merge a 2.4GHz band and a 5GHz band for more performance.

Yes i know, it says on the box that i can get 1300mbps, but i am only getting 10MBps, which is more or less equal to 100mbps.

[Claryn]

Just now, Joelsome said:

all the things are plugged into the gigabit switch, then from that one lead goes into the homehub.

 

the switch i am using doesnt tell me, i will try a different one and report back.

 

Yes i know, it says on the box that i can get 1300mbps, but i am only getting 10MBps, which is more or less equal to 100mbps.

What device are you testing this on? How far away from the AP are you?  10MBps is 100Mbps-ish. It is fast.

[Jsmith2211]

12 minutes ago, brwainer said:

If the switch is a smart/managed switch, log into it and check the link speed on the NAS and the Nighthawk. If it isn’t smart or managed, then look at the lights to try to determine what speed each connection is at. It sounds like one of your ethernet cables isn’t making a good connection and is dropping down to 100Mb

Swapped the switches, the are all running at gigabit. Weired...

[Jsmith2211]

5 minutes ago, Claryn said:

What device are you testing this on? How far away from the AP are you?  10MBps is 100Mbps-ish. It is fast.

I am testing this on my Main desktop running ubuntu 16.04 LTS with an AC56 1300AC wifi card. The router is about 10 feet away in the attic. It is an old house so all it has to pass through is a bit of plaster and some wood and some insulation

[Claryn]

2 minutes ago, Joelsome said:

I am testing this on my Main desktop running ubuntu 16.04 LTS with an AC56 1300AC wifi card. The router is about 10 feet away in the attic. It is an old house so all it has to pass through is a bit of plaster and some wood and some insulation

Your adapter has a theoretical max of about 800Mbps, which is 80MBps. Your router is capable of 1300Mbps over a single 5Ghz band, which is about 160MBps. You should be experiencing around 20-40MBps in real-world use. What driver are you using for the wifi-adapter in Ubuntu 16.04?

What speeds do you experience over ethernet?

Are you sure that all your cables are cat6, meaning 1Gbps capable.

[Jsmith2211]

Just now, Claryn said:

Your adapter has a theoretical max of about 800Mbps, which is 80MBps. Your router is capable of 1300Mbps over a single 5Ghz band, which is about 160MBps. You should be experiencing around 20-40MBps in real-world use. What driver are you using for the wifi-adapter in Ubuntu 16.04?

What speeds do you experience over ethernet?

Are you sure that all your cables are cat6, meaning 1Gbps capable.

the cables are all cat6 or cat5, i am useing the BCMWL-KERNAL-SOURCE driver

[Jsmith2211]

1 minute ago, Claryn said:

Your adapter has a theoretical max of about 800Mbps, which is 80MBps. Your router is capable of 1300Mbps over a single 5Ghz band, which is about 160MBps. You should be experiencing around 20-40MBps in real-world use. What driver are you using for the wifi-adapter in Ubuntu 16.04?

What speeds do you experience over ethernet?

Are you sure that all your cables are cat6, meaning 1Gbps capable.

over ethernet i get around 60 to 80, sometimes peaking to 120 or 130,

[Claryn]

Just now, Joelsome said:

the cables are all cat6 or cat5, i am useing the BCMWL-KERNAL-SOURCE driver

cat5 cables are 100Mbps and would be the issue then........

 

Also, your screenshot poins out that your driver is identifying the connection as a 500Mbps connection, which is very much onpar with the 800Mbps rating of your wifi-card. Everything seems to be working as it should.

[Claryn]

Just now, Joelsome said:

over ethernet i get around 60 to 80, sometimes peaking to 120 or 130,

60,80,120,130 what? Byte? Bits? You are very inconsistent with your notation of whether or not you are talking about bits or bytes. That is crucial here.

[Jsmith2211]

Just now, Claryn said:

60,80,120,130 what? Byte? Bits? You are very inconsistent with your notation of whether or not you are talking about bits or bytes. That is crucial here.

Oh sorry, Bytes a second. i will try a different cable beetween the NAS and the switch, as i have just moved it to the attic...

[Jsmith2211]

3 minutes ago, Claryn said:

60,80,120,130 what? Byte? Bits? You are very inconsistent with your notation of whether or not you are talking about bits or bytes. That is crucial here.

nope still running at that 11.6~MBps

[Jsmith2211]

4 minutes ago, Claryn said:

60,80,120,130 what? Byte? Bits? You are very inconsistent with your notation of whether or not you are talking about bits or bytes. That is crucial here.

there is cat6 going from the router to the switch, then from the switch to the NAS, where else would it be needed?