Access Point Search II
I am a Norton Core router user and the product is being bricked on 1/1/22. I am in the process of redoing my home network. As a baseline I am receiving 72 Mps at the modem from my ISP. I just installed a Gold router and picked up a Netgear WAC510 AP. As a baseline my Core provides 2.4 Gz thru put of 68 Mps at a distance of 5ft using speed test. For my first test of the WAC510 AP I disconnected the Core and plugged AP into the same Ethernet 5e cable, speed test showed 42 Mps at a distance of 5ft. I ran this test 4 times with virtually the same result. I disconnected the AP and plugged the Core back in, reran the speed test and the Core duplicated the 68 Mps.
Can anyone recommend a AP that will deliver in the range of my Core? Hopefully one that you have experience with.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Thanks for the response.
I have gone thru the config several times (does not mean I didn't miss something). I tried altering different setting to see if it made a difference, no luck. It most likely the device is more tailored to 5ghz, but at the risk of sounding out of touch, most of my wireless devices are 2.4ghz.
The TP-Link EAP115 looks to be good and I saw some customers saying they got 85Mbps with 100Mbps service. I will report back my results.
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Me again. I hooked up the WAC510 and ran the same test as noted above. The test above was done 5ft from the router. The WAC510 showed 40Mbps vs the Core's 102Mbps.
Moving to the farthest room in the house (maybe 30ft from router) the Core register 42Mbps and the WAC510 18Mbps. Usable, but not really worth the money.
Thoughts.
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To wrap up this tread I offer the following;
I acquired a TP-Link EAP115; after installing it I ran the tests noted at the top of this thread and the results were worse than the WAC510. I reinstalled the WAC510, defined only one SSID, and activated the Broadcast Enhancement feature. That test improved the thru put to 52Mbps vs the Cores 68Mbps. I then added a guest SSID VLAN and the results dropped my thru put to 42Mbps. My guess is the WAC510 does not have the power to keep up the added workload. In all cases the Firewalla LAN test of the WAC510 showed 68Mbps, vs the Cores 102Mbps on the same cable.
I am sticking with the WAC510, the thru put at the furthest part of the house drops to 18Mbps, which is acceptable for our use. The Core delivered 38Mbps at the same location. It appear the Core has a more robust radio system, but the Core will cease to function on 1/1/22 and will deliver 0Mbps at time.
If I want to increase the thru put I will need to spend more money the the WIFI equipment.
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...An additional note is I did a test with the 5ghz radio turned off to see what the impact was, the results were significantly slower without that radio turned on. I double checked and the laptop was using the 2.4ghz during each test. I turned the 5ghz back on and the test went back to the faster speed and the LT still showed connected to the 2.4ghz freq.
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