Router with the fastest wireless trasnfer speeds

[skreamlex]

Which router has the fastest REAL WORLD wireless transfer speed?
- Router will be inside a 15sqm room with the laptop

In a setup like this: Multibay HDD/SDD Enclosure ===*USB 3.0*===Recommended Router===*WLAN*===Killer 1535 802.11ac 867 Mbps 

Something Personally Experienced, Setup, Used.

 

[kanewolf]

Routers don't make great NAS. They generally don't have enough CPU to provide great performance. Connect a purpose built NAS via a wired interface to the router and let it be JUST a router.

 

[bill001g]

In most cases when transfer speed is important you want to use a wired connection. It would likely take less time when you are transferring large amounts of data to just plug your NAS directly into the laptop. Small data transfers don't matter a lot, does it really matter if it take 3 seconds rather than 2 seconds to copy a file.

On wireless the router is only 1/2 the equation, your nic in your PC will limit you to the 867 speed so it does not pay to buy a larger router. Then again these numbers on wireless are huge lies. You might get 100mbit if you are very lucky. Even if you had one of the rare pc nic cards that has 4 antenna and a router to match you will not get much over 200mbit.

I suspect whatever router you currently have will be good enough for most things and if you have some large file transfer just connect a ethernet cable temporarily or move the nas.

 

[skreamlex]

Routers don't make great NAS. They generally don't have enough CPU to provide great performance. Connect a purpose built NAS via a wired interface to the router and let it be JUST a router.

I just bought a Linksys WRT 1900ACS and are only getting 30MB/s 5GHZ wLan Transfer Speed.

If I were to get a $300 range NAS by how much would it bump up to? I was hoping around the 90MB/s speeds

 

[bill001g]

The guys in the storage forums know much more but you will never see 90MB with consumer grade equipment no matter how you connect it. You would have to have Raid arrays of SSD drives to get speeds like that. Many times that network is not your bottleneck it is the NAS itself or the disk system inside the NAS. This is one of those you get what you pay for things and the reason large companies spend the money for those expensive disk drives.

 

[skreamlex]

The guys in the storage forums know much more but you will never see 90MB with consumer grade equipment no matter how you connect it. You would have to have Raid arrays of SSD drives to get speeds like that. Many times that network is not your bottleneck it is the NAS itself or the disk system inside the NAS. This is one of those you get what you pay for things and the reason large companies spend the money for those expensive disk drives.

I saw reports wherein even a real NAS plugged at the WRT1900ACS the speeds are still limited to 30MB/s over 5GHZ wLan.

While some reports that they are getting 100MB/s write NTFS on USB 3 on the router with LAN connection, but for me i am getting 30MB/s Max

 

[kanewolf]

That is 240Mbit which is a link speed of around 400Mbit. That is pretty typical on 5Ghz WIFI.

 

[skreamlex]

That is 240Mbit which is a link speed of around 400Mbit. That is pretty typical on 5Ghz WIFI.

Re: Slow transfer speeds to external Storage - WRT1900AC [ Edited ]
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‎01-31-2016 12:59 AM - edited ‎01-31-2016 01:00 AM

I read here
https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Slow-transfer-speeds-to-external-Storage-WRT1900AC/td-p/813838/page/9

That using FTP over Samba fixes this problem. Though I am a newbie I dont seem to understand on how they setup or configured it that way

 

[kanewolf]

If you have Windows and drag and drop or Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V then you are using the Windows file sharing protocol known as SMB. The Linux version of SMB is SAMBA. The router runs a Linux based O/S and uses the SAMBA package to implement the SMB file sharing protocol. FTP is a different protocol. It is a "get" and "put" protocol. You can't typically open a word document via FTP. You can with SMB.
You can use something like filezilla (I don't know why the one poster in that thread said not to). it is not as convenient as SMB for a Windows machine.

 

[skreamlex]

If you have Windows and drag and drop or Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V then you are using the Windows file sharing protocol known as SMB. The Linux version of SMB is SAMBA. The router runs a Linux based O/S and uses the SAMBA package to implement the SMB file sharing protocol. FTP is a different protocol. It is a "get" and "put" protocol. You can't typically open a word document via FTP. You can with SMB.
You can use something like filezilla (I don't know why the one poster in that thread said not to). it is not as convenient as SMB for a Windows machine.

I have now used the FTP Protocol. and Getting 30MB/s wLan off my NTFS SSD connected via USB 3.0 at 5GHZ with channel and channel width at Auto. And well I guess that is alright. Quite disspointed but fine I guess.

Now it is just the question of what to pair with a NAS if ever 30MB/s is the MAX for USB attached to router.
a) Keeping the WRT 1900ACS and continue tinkering with DDWRT
b) Exchange the WRT 1900ACS for a TP-Link AC5400 TriBand w/Mu-MiMo since its only $20 more
c) Will a NAS connected to the LAN port make much of a dramatic increase? should i test it first with ethernet attached computer then transfer files over windows sharing network

 

[kanewolf]

Your option (C) above is where you should start. Verify that you have a source that can saturate a gigabit wired network. Do a wired to wired copy to verify that you are around 100MB/s. A single large file is the best choice.