Asus rt-n56u sucks at internet over wifi

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nightanole

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I dont get it. Ive flashed 2 diff firmwares on it, it gets great signal, i can pull 12 meg a second from the home server 15ft away through a wall. however any wifi device that doesnt have a asus wifi card in it, sucks on the internet. I have a tablet,nexus 4, and a dell notebook, all of them can only pull 1mbs from the internet regardless of distance from the router. On the wired since i can pull a consistant 18mbs. My usb 300n asus wifi adapter however has full speed internet.

Is there a setting im missing? All i have is defaults and wpa2 on.
 
Yeah the ASUS RT-N56u is a bit of an odd bird.

Try this firmware: https://code.google.com/p/rt-n56u/ under downloads. Either user the Base or DNLA versions.

Check your wifi settings, make sure you are starting with wireless N, 20Mhz channel width, using WPA2 AES encryption.

Install inSSIDDer onto your wireless client, make certain your router is using the best possible channel with as little interference as possible. Any signal overlap is interference.

In case you wanted to know what's been changed/fixed: http://rt-n56u.googlecode.com/git/changes.eng.txt
 
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the thing is its only internet, lan speed is full bore.

I tried the custom firmware and asus's newest, both had the same results.

I have my channel set default to 20mhz/40mhz, guess i can try just 20mhz.
 
Does the internet performance suffer when only one user is downloading/browsing?

Interference from an overlapping channel is the #1 problem user's see with wireless clients at home these days. 40Mhz mode not switching back to 20Mhz mode is #2 and also contributes to #1.

The auto-switch bandwidth mode doesn't work well in 80% of the consumer grade wireless routers.
 
No internet performance of non asus wifi cards is a consistant 1mbs regardless of range. When doing the test 3-4 devices are on the wifi, but all but the one testing is idle.
 
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