RUTX50 Slow Wifi performance

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I have a RUTX50 installed on my caravan connected to a Poytning MIMO-3-15 for (both LTE and Wifi antennas) - (Yes I’m aware the Poytning only has 2 LTE antennas and the RUTX50 should have 4 LTE antennas).

My LTE performance is OK - my getting 227/18 Mbps from a Speedtest from on the router at my current location.

However the Wifi performance is poor. I’m running iperf3 on the rutx50 and from a couple of different client machine 10 metres away from the caravan I’m getting about 7 Mbps on 2.4 Ghz wifi. On 5 Ghz wifi I get about 15 Mbps.

As a comparison if I plug in the client directly to the router via a LAN cable I get 800-900 Mbps.

I have split my Wifi into 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz.

For the 2.4Ghz I have the radio set to:

Mode N
Channel Auto
Width 20 Mhz
Transmit Power 100%
Allow legacy 802.11b rates - on

For the 5Ghz I have the radio set to:

Mode AC
Channel Auto
Width 20 Mhz
Transmit Power 100%
Allow legacy 802.11b rates - on

Other settings are blank/default.

Any thoughts suggestions on improving the wifi performance?

Regards,

Jason

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Hey,

do you use the newest firmware, as there were changes for the wireless, where the drivers were updated to newer version, which should improve the speed?

BR

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Thanks for your reponse.

Yes - I’ve updated the firmware:

Firmware version - RUTX_R_00.07.09
Firmware build date - 2024-08-29 19:58:25
Internal Modem Firmware version: RG501QEUAAR12A11M4G_04.200.04.200
Kernel version 5.10.221

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Turn off “Allow legacy rates” in general as slows down everything and is mostly not needed.
80 MHz instead of 20 MHz for 5 GHz WiFi gives you way more speed and a wireless range which is probably fully enough for a caravan.

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