Hi im having an issue with download speed using these APs

i have a leased line 100/100 connection. whenever i run a speed test i get around 30mb download and 100mb upload.

can anyone tell me where im going wrong?

"Below is a breakdown of actual real-life average speeds you can expect from wireless routers within a reasonable distance, with low interference and small number of simultaneous clients:

802.11b - 2-3 Mbps downstream, up to 5-6 Mbps with some vendor-specific extensions.
802.11g - ~20 Mbps downstream
802.11n - 40-50 Mbps typical, varying greatly depending on configuration, whether it is mixed or N-only network, the number of bonded channels, etc. Specifying a channel, and using 40MHz channels can help achieve 70-80Mbps with some newer routers. Up to 100 Mbps achievable with more expensive commercial equipment with 8x8 arrays, gigabit ports, etc.
802.11ac - 100+ Mbps typical, higher speeds (300+ Mbps) possible over short distances without many obstacles, with newer generation 802.11ac routers, and client adapters capable of multiple streams."

Are you sure that you are going wrong?

thanks very much for replying ... why would i always get 100mb upload on the test and never above 50 on the download? ... im puzzled

andrew.gray wrote:
why would i always get 100mb upload on the test and never above 50 on the download? ... im puzzled

You could try Netflix's test @ http://fast.com - which is the same one that's built-in to their clients. Not necessarily the fastest the line can achieve - but a 'real-world' answer.

If you're more interested in measuring your Wifi performance, than your ISP, you could try the Android "WiFi Speed Test" application (From the Google Play store ). As well as the 'normal' speedtests (it uses Speedchecker.com ), there is a Python-based local Test Server you can use (from here )


I tried a few tests in my house. The client device was a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, which was positioned 1m from each Access Point under test. The Access Points are all wired by Cat-5e. Local tests used 100MB in 4K packets. My Internet connection is 60/16 (ish). Tests used the 5Ghz band on the Access Points and 2.4GHz on the 'Routers'. The 5GHz band is using 40MHz-wide channels, the 2.4GHz uses 20MHz.
(These are just quick representative values, not exhaustive test results)

AP802 5GHz
RSSI -35 Reported Link Speed ~270Mbps. (@1m)
Internet: 43/16
Local: 182/143

RSSI -63 Reported Link Speed ~130Mbps (2 floors away for comparison)
Local: 97/91

AP903 5GHz
RSSI -40 Reported Link Speed ~360Mbps. (@1m)
Internet: 57/16
Local: 200/154

Vigor 2860n (2.4GHz)
RSSI -23 Reported Link Speed 130Mbps (@1m)
Internet: 67/16
Local: 68/68

Vigor 2830n (2.4GHz)
RSSI -37 Reported Link Speed 144Mbps (@1m)
Internet: 39/16
Local: 69/156

Wired connection via USB (To prove phone wasn't a limiting factor)
(App. reported 100Mbps link, but 1G light was lit on switch)
Internet: 58/14
Local: 333~876/799 ... Data transfer takes quite a while to get 'established' - higher numbers with large transfer size. (Packet size unchanged @4K)

Update: Lies, Damned Lies & Wifi Performance claims ...
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro literature , claimed it was a "smartphone which supports up to 1733 Mbps WiFi download speeds".

Obviously, that is faster than the speed my LAN runs at (where my Test Server lives), so I was never going to achieve that. But I measured 200Mbps, using supposedly one of the fastest Smartphones available, with the latest Draytek Access Point ... Real-world, meets Marketing Hype