Samsung Chronos 7 users, what are your 5ghz N wifi speeds?

I have a NP700Z5C with an Intel 6235 dual-band wireless card. I also have a ASUS RT-N66U router. I'm sitting about 2 walls away from the router and getting a consistent 10 MB/s read speed. The router is 5ghz and using 40mhz channel widths. My wife's Sony laptop with a Intel 5100 actually gets slightly higher speeds than mine. I imagine this may be due to the sensitivity of the antennas, etc? Maybe the aluminum panels on this laptop has an affect on signal strength?

What are your speeds for users in the 5ghz/40mhz range? Also, state how far away you are from the WAP and how many walls there are. Thanks.

 

With two walls between your laptop and the router (and depending on the distance) you may find that 2.4GHz performs better -- assuming you can find a channel that is not too crowded. 5GHz is less likely to suffer congestion from neighbors and other devices, but its penetration and range is poorer.

My NP700Z3A has Intel 6230, so it's a little different (some say better). When in the living room (where the router is) 5GHz works great. But in my office (several walls away) 2.4GHz works better. In fact, my Sammy often drops out in there on 5GHz, while my old HP HDX18 (huge, with Intel 5100 like your wife's) can keep it. Still, I only use 2.4GHz in the office since it's faster and more stable.

You can use inSSIDer to find a channel that is less crowded. Probably not relevant with 5GHz, but critical with 2.4GHz.

I apologize if this is old news to you. Maybe it'll help others.

 

Find version 2 of InSSIDeR and compare the signal strengths between the two notebooks.

Does the Sony have the antennae mounted at the top of the display under a plastic panel? I'm unclear where the antennae on the Z5C are located. I can't see them in the photo of the Z5C display casing in this thread so they might be right at the bottom of the display where the signal will be partly blocked by the chassis. Or the antennae might be between the hinges (the antennae location on the Series 9 notebooks of the same era which also suffered from sub-par WiFi performance).

John

PS: Dannemand beat me to it today!

 

Thanks, but I was mainly curious as to what speeds you guys are getting.

 

My NP900X4C (Intel 6235 WiFi antennae along back side of chassis) was unusable on 5GHz at the opposite end of the house from my router (and was slow on 2.4GHz).

I'm now using a Dell E7440 (Intel 7260 + antennae at the top of the display) and that works OK on either band at the same location although not as fast as my normal location in the same room as the router.

However, for specific discussion about the Series 7 Chronos, did you read this thread and this thread. They've gone quiet since Intel released a reasonable driver for the 6235 just over a year ago.

John

 

I feel a little embarrassed here, since that was the one thing you asked for, and the only thing I DIDN'T include in my response

I don't have any wired devices on my TP-Link WDR3600, and my internet connection is just 10Mbps (BrightHouse has monopoly in our area ) So I don't have any easy ways to test max WiFi performance.

But for the purpose of this, I hooked an external USB harddrive to the router (USB2 since that's what the TP-Link is) and copied a few large files to my Sammy NP700Z3A with Intel 6230, about 18 feet from the router, same room, no walls. I wasn't able to break 8MB/s on 5GHz with 40MHz channel width. So you are doing very well there compared to me, and despite the walls.