Internet speed slower

[jmschnur]

I have Fios w. My internet speeds are over 80 with my netgear r7000 at 5 gig using speedtest.  Using the almond plus at 5gig with the extender running through  the netgear r7000 at 5gig the speeds to the Internet  are less than 50% of the r7000.

Since I am getting connection speeds of over 900 with almond plus and my iPad air, the almond plus must be slowing down the connection to the Internet in someway.  I am using the cb firmware.

[Automate]

Connected an Ethernet cable between your r7000 and the Almond+ and switch from range extender to access point mode.  Any range extender (regardless of model) will always cuts your speed in half since all the data has to be received and then re-transmitted.

[Amritendu]

@ jmschnur, as indicated by Automate, any Range Extender would cut down your speed upto 50% and this holds true for Almond/Almond+ as well. Try Access Point for better speed.

[jmschnur]

It is not an easy Orin to use.a wire. I had hoped the high speed between my. Netgear and the Almon plus which is in excess of 950 would not cut my speed from the Almond through the Netgear to the Internet.

It is still fast enough so no real issue.

[jmschnur]

Interesting that upload is twice as fast as the download.

[xaminmo]

Latency becomes a big issue in this, also bandwidth is a time clise.
If you had clients on one radio, and the wireless bridge on the other radio,
then you won't have to deal with your clients competing for bandwidth with the range extender.

On the other hand, attenuation, interference, and re-transmits will greatly affect speed and latency.

IIRC, beamforming is either brand new with the cb firmware, or pending for the next non-beta release?

It may be that you could reposition both units (Netgear and Almond+) by a small amount, and get a big boost in effective thruput.

[jmschnur]

I will experiment with  repositioning . Netgear"s net genie tells me that the plus and the r7000 are communicating at 975. can it go faster?

[jmschnur]

Rotating the plus gave me a significant improvement in my Internet connection. Speedtest gives me about 60 down and 70 up now. While my connection speed varies with Fios this is close to the best I get directly.  The Netgear genie still says the same 975.