{"id":90,"date":"2015-01-18T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anjo.pt\/wp\/keyword-oracle\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:27:22","slug":"maximize-wifi-speed-at-home-get-the-300mbps-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/2015\/01\/18\/maximize-wifi-speed-at-home-get-the-300mbps-or-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximize wifi speed at home – get the 300Mbps (or more)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally I got 300Mbps Wifi speed at home between my laptop and the router. This means a theoretical 30MB\/s for file transfer with other computer or with the NAS. In reality I get 16MB\/s instead of the 5 or 6MB\/s I was getting before. It was not easy to understand all the components that made so difficult to get it working. Here are my collection of tips for configuring the router:<\/p>\n

1. Use WPA2-AES encryption<\/strong><\/p>\n

This type of encryption seems to be needed to have speeds above 54Mbps. But I could not find information if you can also get higher speeds by removing any encryption. In some forums say the 802.11n specification obliges the use of WPA2-AES encryption, but here<\/a>\u00a0it seems to say that you can get a 5 to 10% gain by removing encryption.<\/p>\n

2. Use 40MHz bandwidth<\/strong><\/p>\n

It means it bonds\u00a0two channels of the spectrum to transmit data. I did not knew about this until I saw the option recently on the router of my new internet provider.<\/p>\n

3. Set the router to use a channel with free adjacent channel<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was the most difficult to find out about and the reason why I was on 144Mbps for long time. As I live in city center there are more than 10 networks on the range. Also I had always read that it is good idea to choose either channel 1, 6 or 11, not to have overriding channels.\u00a0It comes out that every network in range uses one of those three channels. When I moved my network from using channel 11 to use now channel 8 (plus channel 7 or 9 as adjacent channel, the configuration does not allow to choose), my connection changed from 144Mbps to 300Mbps!<\/p>\n

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Finally I got 300Mbps Wifi speed at home between my laptop and the router. This means a theoretical 30MB\/s for file transfer with other computer or with the NAS. In reality I get 16MB\/s instead of the 5 or 6MB\/s I was getting before. It was not easy to understand all the components that made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oracle","7":"category-other","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}