Archer C1200 - glacial wireless speed, poor connection quality
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Archer C1200 - glacial wireless speed, poor connection quality
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Hey folks,
I recently purchased a TP-Link Archer C1200 to replace my TL-WR841N which lacked gigabit ports, but otherwise was a decent piece of hardware.
Upon installation, I was happy to find an increase in download speeds on my wired machine from 90Mbps up to 130Mbps. However, the wireless connection has been a huge step back.
I live in a small apartment and have always had high signal quality, full bars across my whole apartment. With the C1200, I have 2 or maybe 3 bars of quality, even right near the router. Occasionally I see that fluctuate up, but it's consistently poor quality of connection. In addition, my wireless download speeds have now plummeted. I was getting 90Mbps over wireless with the TL-WR841N, and now I'm seeing nothing greater than 50Mbps (across mobile devices and a wireless PC), and usually more like 25-35Mbps. I'm stumped, as I've messed with the settings all I can and not seen an improvement. I'm going to have to return this unit if it can't at least match my last-gen router. My old router had nothing special set, all auto channels as far as I know.
In addition, the 5Ghz band seems to behave worse than the 2.4Ghz, so I've been using 2.4 only.
Steps I've Taken:
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- [/FONT] tried all the channels by themselves
- changed the channel width
- tried each wireless mode
- changed the security/version and encryption settings
I'm fairly certain that the problem is not my other hardware, because again the old router saw 90Mbps download over wifi. I literally ran a speedtest on the old router, swapped out with the C1200 and re-ran the speedtest. FWIW my main PC that is running wireless shows the Windows WiFi Status Speed to be: 144Mpbs
I am no networking expert, so I can only assume there's some setting or something I'm missing. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks!
Adam
Specs:
TP-Link Archer C1200
Firmware: 3.0.4 Build 20180122 rel.42880 (US)
Hardware: Archer C1200 v3.0
Wired: 135Mbps
Wireless: <50Mbps
Channel/Width: Auto
Mode: 802.11b/g/n mixed
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Hey folks,
I recently purchased a TP-Link Archer C1200 to replace my TL-WR841N which lacked gigabit ports, but otherwise was a decent piece of hardware.
Upon installation, I was happy to find an increase in download speeds on my wired machine from 90Mbps up to 130Mbps. However, the wireless connection has been a huge step back.
I live in a small apartment and have always had high signal quality, full bars across my whole apartment. With the C1200, I have 2 or maybe 3 bars of quality, even right near the router. Occasionally I see that fluctuate up, but it's consistently poor quality of connection. In addition, my wireless download speeds have now plummeted. I was getting 90Mbps over wireless with the TL-WR841N, and now I'm seeing nothing greater than 50Mbps (across mobile devices and a wireless PC), and usually more like 25-35Mbps. I'm stumped, as I've messed with the settings all I can and not seen an improvement. I'm going to have to return this unit if it can't at least match my last-gen router. My old router had nothing special set, all auto channels as far as I know.
In addition, the 5Ghz band seems to behave worse than the 2.4Ghz, so I've been using 2.4 only.
Steps I've Taken:
[FONT=arial]
- [/FONT] tried all the channels by themselves
- changed the channel width
- tried each wireless mode
- changed the security/version and encryption settings
I'm fairly certain that the problem is not my other hardware, because again the old router saw 90Mbps download over wifi. I literally ran a speedtest on the old router, swapped out with the C1200 and re-ran the speedtest. FWIW my main PC that is running wireless shows the Windows WiFi Status Speed to be: 144Mpbs
I am no networking expert, so I can only assume there's some setting or something I'm missing. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks!
Adam
Specs:
TP-Link Archer C1200
Firmware: 3.0.4 Build 20180122 rel.42880 (US)
Hardware: Archer C1200 v3.0
Wired: 135Mbps
Wireless: <50Mbps
Channel/Width: Auto
Mode: 802.11b/g/n mixed
