GL-MT300N-V2 repeater speeds slower than expected

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Hi, this is a pretty simple one: I’ve got the MT300N Mango and find that the speeds I’m getting as a repeater and lower than they should be.

My modem connection is like 500Mbps so plenty of headroom, and I realize the Mango’s LAN output is 100Mbps max.

  • I’m getting 45d/30u, with internet via 2.4ghz wifi and my computer connected via LAN
  • On my old Linksys I dusted off, same config, I was getting 130Mbps down, 30 up. So 30Mbps up seems to be the ceiling on my network.
  • When I connected the Mango to that Linksys (instead of my modem), inches apart, I was still getting 45Mbps down
  • I’ve updated to the latest firmware and disabled the Wifi since I only need it to receive and pass the data on LAN

Are there any settings or optimizations bottlenecking the downstream to ~50Mbps?

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The mango has imho only a 100MBit LAN connection so it cannot become faster than this. Your 500MBit download can’t be fully used by the mango.
The netto-datarate will be abt. half of the 100MBit.

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If you want to know more about the relationship between mimo, bandwidth and datarate for wifi, you can have a look here: WLAN-Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit / WLAN-Datenrate

It’s in german but you can read the tables. The netto datarate is abt. half of the datarate shown there.

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Why is the LAN output half of 100Mbit?

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Not LAN, it will work at 100MBit/s, but WLAN. If the brutto datarate of WLAN (MIMO 1x1, 20MHz bandwith) is 72 Mbit/s the netto datarate will be abt. 35 MBit/s.

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In best case! :point_up:

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I’m only connecting with LAN.

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Actually the speed you got is a real-world speed and not that bad.

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