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Slow WiFi speed


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I just got my R2 a couple days ago and just noticed the WiFi speed is about half my normal speed, I'm getting 13Mbit UP 20Mbit DOWN only when connected over WiFi, this is the whole bandwidth available for all devices when connected over wifi.

The speed is the same when connected to 2.4 and 5 ghz wifi and it's the same even if i test from 1 meter from the router.
All testing made from 3 different devices and using both speedtest.net and downloading from steam.
Hybrid VPN is NOT enabled.

A list of things I tried to fix this:
- Disabling QOS
- Disabling Congestion Control & Goodput
- Separating 2.4 and 5 Ghz WiFi channels
- Manually changing WiFi channels and width
- Rebooting

QOS Screenshot page:

qos_screenshot.png

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Nope, every device connected is using very low traffic. Its quite strange because it looks like it's capped at 20Mbits, it doesn't vary much, maybe 18/21Mbits, not more, and if I, for example, download something with a device, connected over Wifi, using all the 20Mbits, all the other devices struggle going online because thats the whole bandwidth available for all the devices connected to the Wifi network.

Maybe you can connect to my R2 and check if something is wrong?

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We don't generally connect for everyday troubleshooting like this, if eventually we can't solve it then we may be able to get a dev to have a look.

What category of ethernet cables do you have connected to the router? Have you got any other cables you can try with?

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I don't have any issues via ethernet, I have a CAT 8 connected to the internet port of the R2 and two cat 5e connected to port 3 and 4.
I don't see why I should change the ethernet cables if the issue is only WiFi related. 🤨

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Just want to make sure they're suitable for high transfer rates that wouldn't impact the wifi when ethernet gets priority. You said you changed the widths, did you do the highest width on 5GHz and you noticed no difference? Did you use a WiFi analyzer to find the best channel or just choose random ones?

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I just tried what you suggested, but I got the same results. 😩

EDIT:
I checked again the WiFi channels using a different software (WiFi Explorer Pro for Mac) and I've managed to fix the WiFi by changing the width and channel, I don't know why it didn't change at all the first time I tested, probably the software I used before sucked 🤔...

Thank you for the support!

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