Asus dark knight router slow wifi speeds

[Dan_s_young]

Hi everyone. Recently I changed my internet provider (went from a 25mbps down and 3 up) to 150 Mbps down and 15 up.

My setup uses 2 routers, my isp router in my basement near my electrical panel and an asus dark knight n66u on the second floor of my house (to increase wifi range/speed) hard wired with cat5e Ethernet cable to the isp router.

When I test the Ethernet cable coming into the 2nd router - with a laptop I get 170mbps. So the cable itself tests good. Once the connection goes through the router I'm only getting 10-20 Mbps on the 2.4 ghz or 5.0 ghz bands.

When I connect to my isp router with wifi I can get about 140-150 Mbps down.

I've installed the newest router firmware, and have played with the 20/40mhz setting with my asus router but nothing seems to improve the speed. Qos is disabled. Any other ideas?

 

[KiL3MaNjAr0W]

Ok, so my knowledge is limited as i haven't finshed my Net+ cert yet but if you want to do this I believe your second router will need to be on different channels than your primary router, configure the dhcp server, and disable UPnP. This setup is also causing double nat translation which can cause problems. Just buy a wap and disable the router function if it has one, much more simple solution.

 

[Dan_s_young]

I've played around with it a bit more this evening. I have changed the settings on the 2nd router to turn it into an access point. I then moved the cable from the WAN port to one of the LAN ports.

Strangely the speeds still don't seem any faster.

 

[KiL3MaNjAr0W]

Make sure they are on different channels and dhcp upnp is turned off on your second router. And try linking your cable from the lan port on router a to the wan port on router b.

 

[bill001g]

You want to run the second router as a AP which mean you cable to the lan port and disable the dhcp in the second router, you must also make sure it does not use the same lan ip as your main router.

If you test a PC plugged into another lan port it should run as fast as if you connect directly to the ethenet cable going directly.

Wireless tends to be very hard to fix. It may not even be the router it could be the nic card in the pc or even interference. The N66u is a very popular router that many people say works very well.

I would take you pc and test it via wireless down next to the ISP router. This will to a point show if your PC wireless may be the bottleneck.

You really have few option you can change the radio channels and you can mess with the stuff like 20/40 etc but there is not much else to try.