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Not getting the speed of a N band on WiFi.... NO 300 mbps!

Anonymous
2014-01-20T17:47:05+00:00

I have the Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230 and I get only 144.0 mbps when I should get around 300 mbps. What do I do? My router is a N band capible of 300 mbps. Is this a hardware issue? Anybody out there understand why this is doing this? I updated the drivers!

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-20T18:25:36+00:00

    It sounds like your wireless is working just fine.

    It's two-way traffic, so the effective speed is generally half of the rated speed. Basically,half of the pipeline is used for each direction (computer to router and vice-versa), and that's if there's just one device on the network.

    That 300 mbps is shared between all the devices on your network, so if you have several computers/tablets, etc. doing stuff on the network at the same time, each one gets a portion of that 300.

    144 actually sounds about right if you just have the one computer running at the moment.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-21T19:30:56+00:00

    That's just the viruses being downloaded. :-)

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-21T19:28:21+00:00

    Only on **** sites!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-21T15:32:56+00:00

    Are you experiencing any lag or problems when doing stuff on the network? Slow web page loads or buffering in Netflix? Or are file transfers taking longer than they should?

    If the speed feels fine for your needs, I honestly wouldn't worry about the numbers.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-20T18:51:57+00:00

    That makes since. Thank you for the input! How do I get 300 mbps? I know it's possible with a nano band router.

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