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Re: Internet50 continuously limited between 2.5 to 1.2 Mbps
I have solved my speed issues with my Bridge. As this may affect other users too, not ones limited to my specific Linksys WES610N, I'm posting this to complete this thread (to make up for my earlier Telus bashing...). The fix was a setting-change on the Telus router (T3200M): The key was the Channel Width parameter, it was defaulted to 20 MHz for 5G ... same frequency bandwidth as the 2.4G signal... I then looked up my WES610N's specs (shown below) and found that 5G ought to be 40MHz and changed the parameter accordingly. For good measure, as I have no 5GHz 802.11ac devices, I dropped the compatibility for it off that second drop-down menu, and limited it to only A and N. I changed both variables at once, maybe a no-no, but it worked so I won't go back and increase the compatibility options. Finally at last I get internet download speeds in the rated range to my work computer (~41 Mbps)...I would assume then that media devices also hardwired into my WiFi Bridge will have better throughput now! My last resort would have been to turn-off SmartSteering and have separate SSID's for each 2.4GHz & 5GHz radio, but since I also have the range extenders, that would give 4 SSIDs total for the house, and the need to train (i.e. sign-into) all 4 on every device to be sure things went smoothly. No-thanks not how I want to spend my 1 hour of daily free time after the kids are asleep before it's my turn! Hope this helps somebody else...RTFM as they say!Re: Internet50 continuously limited between 2.5 to 1.2 Mbps
Thanks FuzzyLogic, I ran them from my high-end work desktop, with a 100Mbps wired link to my WiFi Bridge. From your suggestion I did some digging and found the speedtest under the admin pages of the router. It tested 55Mbps!!! ^_^... After that I ran speedtests from an Apple MacBook (2012) laptop, iPhone 6, and they were all hitting the 50-55Mbps speeds...so hurray! Now I'm eating my words now as the problem is mine...it's limited to everything connected via my WiFi Bridge that is choked back to 1.0-2.5 Mbps...user error indeed! FYI all my high-demand items: AppleTV (gen3), Sony Blu-Ray player, and my office PC are all patched-in with wired connections to my WiFi Bridge (Linksys WES610N, hardware v.1.0, firmware 1.05), which has a dual band internal antenna and is advertised with 300 Mbps throughput (whatever that means) so I never though this was the weak link...turns out it is. After that I played for hours with my WiFi settings at my home entertainment hub's WiFi Bridge and the Telus router [T3200M, Firmware: 31.164L.18 (loaded by ACS on 12/07/2018) ]. Somehow it's only connecting to the 2.4Ghz antenna on the Telus router and the Bridge doesn't display a "full-duplex" connection type in the router's WiFi mapping. I tinkered to force it onto the 5 GHz band via MAC steering on the router but this just broke the connection to the Bridge. Looks like the Bridge will only stay with the 2.4 GHz connection. Although the Bridges' UI is garbage, I did notice that the Status pages does infact "update" and it is showing an unstable link to the router (see images below). Fluctuating between 6.5 MBps to 65 Mbps. FYI the Bridge is about 30 ft away from the router with direct line-of-sight...just have a finished basement with no easy way to route an ethernet cable across the kids play room!!! Anybody with the skills to assist with setting a Linksys WES610N settings? FYI I have my Linksys E4200 router still lying around, I stopped using it when we switched off Shaw's in favour of Telus, can it be plugged into the T3200M without causing issues? Also we have two WiFi ranger boosters from Telus... So I'm worried all these WiFi devices would not play nice together? Thanks in advance!
