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[drick]

title should be self explanatory, but want to know how i can make this work.

there will be no other wireless clients that need this speed, i just want the DAP to connect at that speed.

is it possible?

also posting this question in the DIR forum.

TIA

[drick]

current connection is fluctuating between 108-162, never anywhere near 300.

signal strength is fluctuating between 48-56%, units are about 25 feet away from each other clear line of sight

[Mackerel]

Could be some interference. What you could do is make one of those parabolic directors, like there are for the wireless-G areals. I know the DAP-1522 does not have external antennae, but put the whole thing in a cone-like thing.
Google on pringle antenna, or wireless-n/g parabolic directors and you should find some stuff.

If the signal strength on 25 feet is that low you could also have an issue with antenna-direction as the built-in antenna is probably not aligned to your 825... You could rotate in 2 directions (antenna could be aligned to the back of the device or the side) to see if signal goes up. 25 feet on even a wireless-G LOS is 90%+ 

[drick]

thanks for the suggestion, but this is sitting in my kitchen, and my wife will never go for that.

 

[Mackerel]

Sorry to hear that. Now you have 2 options, swap the bridge or the wife. I can guess which one...
(I have been happily married nearly 35 years now).

Have your tried rotating a bit? Otherwise you might need to look at the 300 Mbps thread somewhere in this forum. But that one only talks about ideal situations setup to get 300:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=3444.0

But you've got me here. Maybe another better versed person could help out.

[nolodie]

I'm in the same boat... DIR-825 & DAP-1522 running at 140 Mbps; 300 Mbps desired.  No solution yet.  I'm somewhat convinced that it's an issue with the DAP-1522 since I have another N device (MacBook Pro) that's connecting at 300 Mbps.

I'm using the 5 GHz interface, restricted to N, WEP2/AES, and Auto 20/40 (although this setting doesn't seem to stick in the UI).

I had a DAP-2553 earlier today, but didn't have a chance to test it with either other device... too bad.

[drick]

Sorry to hear that. Now you have 2 options, swap the bridge or the wife. I can guess which one...
(I have been happily married nearly 35 years now).

Have your tried rotating a bit? Otherwise you might need to look at the 300 Mbps thread somewhere in this forum. But that one only talks about ideal situations setup to get 300:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=3444.0

But you've got me here. Maybe another better versed person could help out.

wise man, that is you you've been married for so long i'm sure.. 

yes i tried moving the DAP and the DIR around on both ends, standing up on end, etc. no dice.

my setup mirrors that thread exactly already actually, so i'm at least configured correctly.

[drick]

bump ttt

[jerry6]

108-162 from 25 feet away is pretty good , 300 is just the max it CAN  reach under ideal conditions . Just like your car can go 120 mph or 0-60 in 6.5 sec , but not uphill with a 30 mph headwind .
  They don't guarantee 300 mbps , just say it can achieve it under ideal conditions .

[Polaris75]

I'm in the same boat... DIR-825 & DAP-1522 running at 140 Mbps; 300 Mbps desired.  No solution yet.  I'm somewhat convinced that it's an issue with the DAP-1522 since I have another N device (MacBook Pro) that's connecting at 300 Mbps.

Exact same problem here, and they're both going back to the store tomorrow morning if I can not find a fix somewhere on this forum tonight.

I was getting 18-21 Mbps TCP streams from my 11G network with frame burst enabled ... I just went out and dropped $260 on 11N gear to increase that to a whopping ... *drumroll* -

------------------------------------------------------------
[148] local 172.30.0.25 port 53297 connected with 172.30.0.130 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[148]  0.0-10.0 sec  28.5 MBytes  23.9 Mbits/sec

Not a CHANCE I am keeping this stuff if that does not improve.

And it is not interference or stuff in between point A and point B ... I was only getting a 140 Mbps link when the devices were 1.5 feet apart!

And yes, 300 is the "theoretical max" and all that, but 140?  Seriously?  How can you defend that?  My 11G connections bounced between 54 Mbps and 48 Mbps, as I said, giving me 18-21 Mbps real-world TCP throughput.  What I am getting with this new gear is an absolute joke.

I'm using the 5 GHz interface, restricted to N, WEP2/AES, and Auto 20/40 (although this setting doesn't seem to stick in the UI).

I had a DAP-2553 earlier today, but didn't have a chance to test it with either other device... too bad.

Same here ... you have to set it to A+N to make it stick ... as soon as you flip it to N only it goes back to 20 MHz ... I have no idea what that is all about but I am not impressed as I had planned to run a pure N environment so there wouldn't be any slowdowns from backwards compatability.

D-Link was already on my "do not buy" list before I saw these products and decided to give them another chance based on the capabilities their Wifi certifications claimed they could do.  If I can't get these talking faster than 140 Mbps when they're TWO FEET APART it will be going back on my "do not buy" list, in bold, with stars around it, and I will have to start warning friends away from D-Link products as well.

I'm going to try playing with the alignment as mentioned earlier and failing that I'll be back to dig through the forums some more.

[Polaris75]

As I posted in this other thread about 5GHz problems with the 1522 (which I was also having) - I've been fighting with these bloody things all night, the majority of the night not being able to get them to connect *at all* on the 5GHz band, and then when I finally did get them to talk, after all that fighting, with all the settings *perfectly* matching what it says in the "300Mbps Connection Requirements" thread, and the devices being about 10' apart and in perfectly clear line of sight of one another, and after having used that stupid setup utility, twice, they will still only connect at 140 Mbps ... so, I am done ... these are going back to the store first thing in the morning, and these are the last D-Link products I, or anyone I know who has the ability to listen to me yell and complain about this experience, will ever purchase.  I have worked with a LOT of networking equipment in my life, from $250,000+ Cisco routers and switches to some of the earliest wireless adapters produced, to ISA NICs with 10Base2 connectors on them - and this, by far, has been the worst experience I have ever had with any networking product.

[jerry6]

Well I'm getting between 60-78Mbps transfer rate between my 1522 and my NAS on the 5 ghz band which I think is pretty good for wireless . You want blazing fast get wired , simple as that . Best TRANSFER rate  (NOT CONNECTION SPEED )  I could get on g band was around 11-18 Mbps on a good day ! .Go back to g ? never