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Title: Extremely poor performance DWA-556 & DIR-655
Post by: fackamato on May 13, 2011, 07:06:50 AM

Hi,

Just purchased the DWA-556 for my desktop as I can't run a cable to the router from where the desktop is. The performance is horrible. My Lenovo T510 gets a better connection and faster speeds in the same location. The distance between the router and the computer is ~30 feet or 10 metres.

First, here's the details and settings:

* Win7 64-bit
* DWA-556 driver 9.2.0.105 (Atheros AR5008)

Settings for the adapter:

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11d mode switch: disable
802.11 BT high speed: disable
802.11b preamble: long and short
AdHoc 11n: disable
Adhoc Channel: 11
AntennaSwitch: Auto
Auto Transmit Rate: Enable
Backgroundscan: Off
Dynamic MIMO power save: disable
Green Tx: disable
Map registers: 256
MFP: Enable
Network address: Not present
pcieAspm: Off, Off
Power save mode: Off
Receive buffers: 256
Roaming policy: Normal
RSSI threshold: Normal
Scan valid interval: 60
Transmit buffers: 512
Transmit power: 100%
Wireless mode: 11nbg (40Mhz)
Settings on the DIR-655 router w/ Firmware: 1.34EU, under Advanced Wireless:

(http://i.imgur.com/2sy9C.jpg)

Manual wireless settings:

(http://i.imgur.com/jklWk.jpg)

Wireless connections on DIR-655:

(http://i.imgur.com/lJLvp.jpg)

And here's the status in Win7:

(http://i.imgur.com/0XiBu.jpg)


So basically, how can I improve this? Thanks!

Title: Re: Extremely poor performance DWA-556 & DIR-655
Post by: fackamato on May 14, 2011, 05:36:44 AM

Aw, no one?

Edit: I'm now seeing about 21.5 mb/s or ~2700KB/s. Not really "N" speeds. I've changed the settings to these:

(short GI doesn't make things better for me)
(http://i.imgur.com/h4lAd.jpg)

Driver: (http://i.imgur.com/UkqfO.jpg) Driver settings: (http://i.imgur.com/Yp4O8.jpg)

WLAN status:

(http://i.imgur.com/CN9Kk.jpg)



And here you can see the statistics on the DIR-655, about every other time I refresh the page the errors goes up, so something's not right:

(http://i.imgur.com/rPNoH.jpg)

Title: Re: Extremely poor performance DWA-556 & DIR-655
Post by: batkinson001 on May 16, 2011, 01:25:26 PM

have you tried the drivers mentioned in the "hands down..." thread?

Title: Re: Extremely poor performance DWA-556 & DIR-655
Post by: fackamato on May 18, 2011, 05:24:21 AM

Quote from: batkinson001 on May 16, 2011, 01:25:26 PM

have you tried the drivers mentioned in the "hands down..." thread?

Yeah, it makes no difference.  :(

Title: Re: Extremely poor performance DWA-556 & DIR-655
Post by: junkun13 on November 20, 2011, 12:01:37 AM

same here, I don't know whats causing the low performance the router or the card, I think it's both  :P