So the speed between the router and your RE450 is 526, RE450 and computer is 336? Do you check wireless link speed of the wireless network card on your computer? Do you check wireless link speed of the wireless network card on your computer? 

AC1200 and AC1750 refers to maximum wifi link speed it can achieve. Whether it can reach the maximum depends on the device of the other side as well. And it's not the real internet speed. Usually internet speed will be about 60% of the link speed. With interference and obstacles, it may be less than 60%. 

vampire_lady wrote

So the speed between the router and your RE450 is 526, RE450 and computer is 336? Do you check wireless link speed of the wireless network card on your computer? Do you check wireless link speed of the wireless network card on your computer? 

 

AC1200 and AC1750 refers to maximum wifi link speed it can achieve. Whether it can reach the maximum depends on the device of the other side as well. And it's not the real internet speed. Usually internet speed will be about 60% of the link speed. With interference and obstacles, it may be less than 60%. 

 

 

Yes, my router sends to the RE450 at ~526. And the RE450 sends to my router at ~336. Other than my router and the RE450, everything else is hard wired through gigabit LAN ports. I'm basically bridging 2 gigabit LAN networks through the WiFi. I just find it odd I get nearly half the transmit speed in the RE450 than I do with my router that's technically a WiFi specification lower. I know the link is as slow as the lowest spec WiFi too, so they should be theoretically linked at the router's AC1200 spec.

My bandwidth numbers are raw network bandwidth using DU Meter. I don't really care about real data bandwidth because I know there's overhead in the transmition so my real data throughput is lower. And internet speed doesn't really pertain to anything since I transfer files through the WiFi bridge. I always test using raw network throughput. And I also test transferring files from each computer that both have SSDs. Either SSD to SSD or iperf3 to iperf3 both have the same result in bandwidth usage.

It just seems like either the RE450 has a bug or transmit limitation, or my router transmits faster due to beam forming. Maybe if I had beam forming tech on both ends each transmit would be the same, but I don't know. Which is why I'm wondering if anyone else has had experiences like this?