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Wireless performance
Hi, not sure if this is in the right place on the forum but here goes..... I recently bought a dual band "N" wireless modem / router as I thought since all the PCs and laptops are now N capable, I may as well upgrade for not a lot of outlay however on further digging it looks like none of them are on the 5GHz band so I set the router to 300Mbs at 2.4GHz but the best I can achieve in a modern detached house is 144Mbs even in the next room to the router. Does this mean that the wireless NICs are not capable of 300Mbs or do I need to do anything e.g. optimization to achieve this value - I appreciate it will drop with distance and obstacles but only a few meters away I was expecting better ?
I'm not overly bothered about this, it is more curiosity than anything else.
Thanks.