Netgear fixes WGR3500 bandwidth issues, somewhat.
On this page, Netgear releases Firmware version 1.0.30 for the WNR3500 router.
In my previous Apple Macbook Pro to Local network host (Mac Mini) testing, my top connection speed was around 2.4 Mbps. After the upgrade, it’s between 4.65Mbps and 7.5Mbps. Nothing near the promised speeds of 802.11N (300Mbit/sec), but I suspect that this is because of an incompatibility between Apple’s hardware and Netgear’s Hardware.
------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 10.1.1.15, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 129 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 10.1.1.70 port 51617 connected with 10.1.1.15 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 8.59 MBytes 7.19 Mbits/sec
Update:
After disassociating and reassociating with the AP, speeds went way up:
retina:~ jna$ iperf -s ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 10.1.1.15 port 5001 connected with 10.1.1.70 port 52865 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 34.8 MBytes 29.1 Mbits/sec
With other devices on the WLAN, speeds go down. My current theory is that 802.11g devices on the same wireless network (such as the older Macbooks that we have) drag 802.11n speeds down, but I’m yet to be able to prove that.
