The question is about a network that has two types of devices called routers and offers four different speed choices.
The question is about a network that has two types of devices called routers and offers four different speed choices.
Basically, I have two main routers: the TP-Link Archer AX55 with Wi-Fi 6 and the second one in access point mode is just the TP-Link Archer C6. For testing, I set up four different SSIDs on each router using both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Everything works great right now at my maximum network speed, and ping stays around 20. But with wired clients coming from the Archer C6, download and upload speeds are under half of what they should be, and ping jumps up to 200-500. I don't get why a wired connection is that much worse than wireless; I would expect the opposite. Is there any explanation or fix? Thanks so much!
It sounds like maybe there is a setting somewhere on the Archer C6 messing up how things work with the network. If so, it will be way worse than just slow internet from Wi-Fi. Have you ever used it fine by connecting directly to the router instead of relying on Wi-Fi?
So I think you probably have an ethernet cable between the routers because that's what "AP" stands for. When you turn it on in AP mode, the device acts like a switch that has wifi radios built into it. By setting it to AP mode, you make the WAN port act as another LAN port. It would be kind of the same thing as putting a small 5-port switch in place. This should work pretty well unless there is some weird bug in the firmware on your c6 router. If you haven't tried this yet, maybe use a LAN port instead of the WAN port. The actual lan ports are just little switches that have wifi radios, but on modern routers those wires connect directly to the main chip inside the router rather than sitting on their own separate chip piece. When you use the wan port, the traffic actually goes through the router cpu chip, even though that is what the AP function is meant for doing anyway.
Sorry guys for the late reply, but my antivirus system turned on and off the VPN (while I was sure it was off, so I didn't notice right away). It really doesn't affect internet speed much anyway. At the end of the day, I have two SSIDs from two routers, which wasn't exactly how it was set up. I thought I could just set up one SSID with both routers to get better reach, but that's not that simple. Anyway, thanks for your help!