Can't hit maximum download speed over WiFi

My ISP gives me 30Mbps down, and 5Mbps up. I can hit these speeds when I'm hooked directly to my router with an ethernet cable, but not over WiFi. I have a Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit WRT310N that claims 270Mbps, and my Intel 6300 claims 450Mbps. My signal strength is at maximum. Does anyone know what could be causing this, or are the manufacturer's numbers just inflated?

 

check the router settings maybe its limited there or so

 

It's WiFi... of course you're not going to hit your full download/upload speed...

 

Did you setup the 6300 to use N speeds or whats it called, its a setting if I'm correct.

 

Advertised speeds are usually never what people get. It depends on a lot of factors. Location, router, throughput, overheads.

 

if you view that status of your wifi, what does it claim is your link speed?

 

I'm asking for 1/9th of the router advertised speed, and 1/15th of the wireless card advertised speed. Come on man...

I'll give it a look. Thanks for your help.

 

Device manager, right click wifi, proportions,advanced.

Take a look at those settings.

 

Make sure your wifi isn't in a power saving mode too

 

You should be able to get those speeds over wifi easily. To increase your wifi speeds, make sure you have channel bonding enabled so you can get the full 270mbps your router offers, them you shouldn't have any issues. Most routers default to 75 or 150mbps, so you have to change the settings.

 

I think I read somewhere about this issue. If you have any other device connected to the Router thats not N. You wont be able to use the dual/3x channel ability of your wireless card.

 

What speeds are you actually getting on your laptop?

The max download speed i have hit on my laptop with the default wireless n card is about 2.5 megabytes per second (about 20megabits per sec) which is close to the max theoretical bandwidth on my 25mbps line

 

I have the Netgear N600. This has capability to generate a guest network which I run to satisfy devices that prefer to be just in 'G' mode. Otherwise I have the normal 'N' band and then it also broadcasts a third 5G mode which only my Alienware connects to. That way I get the full 300 mbs connection. Although my internet is capped at 29 m/bit download (BT infinity) so that's the max I get. Guess it tops out downloading at anywhere between 3 and 3.5 megabytes sec.

Does the linksys have similar options to broadcast a guest network? Doing this on my network allows my devices to all work to their own max capablities and the file sharing etc still all works (file share can be a little bit glitchy on a couple devices because I also use a BT Home Hub to extend the range of the network via home plug and give me range upstairs as my walls are so thick - the Home Hub broadcasts the same SSID so switching is seamless on things like my iPhone but I think my setup prompts quite a few 'Master Browser Elections')

Just saying this because it's a good router I'd recommend and cost about £80 which I thought was good at the time. Only downside is my iPhone, despite being 'N' capable speedtest apps suggest it never downloads any faster than 15 - 20 m/bits, it should really be capable of getting the full 30 m/bits on offer. Other than that it's all good.

 

The maximum I am able to hit is around 15-17Mbps. I did find a setting in my router config for wireless N. However, it warned me that if I change the setting to anything besides 'auto' that nothing other than N could connect. We have many devices that connect to our network, and not all are N capable. May just deal with it. I appreciate all of the help.

 

Get a dual band router, and set the 5GHz band to N-Only.

 

Turbo, I noticed the same thing. And I browse on the couch from my cell phone so I have mine set so it's not just N. Wonder what speed I'd get if it was only set to N? Although for me it doesn't much matter. My M17x R2 sits on my desk and plugged into the router most of the time.