[Solved] Wireless Network speed

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Hello guys,

i recently bought a Vero 4k and am currently busy setting it up.
The first problem i ran into is the wireless network speed. It only offers half the speed vs. wired connections. The speed i am able to achieve is not enough to stream huge 4k files (roughly 625MB per Minute are needed / you’ll see later why i calculated in Mb / minute)

My Hardware:
Synology Diskstation 918+ - referred as NAS
Synology RT1900AC - referred as Router
Vero 4k - referred as Vero

The Router and the Vero are able to talk 802.11ac. With theoretical network speeds of 1.300 Mbit/s.
I know theoretical != real world, but read on, i’m not even close to half the speed.

What i’ve done:
To minimize interference and bad connections, i placed the vero on the same desk as the router.
To set a benchmark, i started the measuring using a wired connection directly to the router, on which my NAS is also connected. To exclude the “smart connect” bamboozling with 2,4 and 5 GHz, i disabled all those functions, running 2,4 GHz only.

I Installed a debian vm on my NAS to install iperf. I also installed iperf on the Vero 4k.
Because of port assigning problems, i can only test one way → the Vero as iperf server, the NAS as client.

The results (wired connection) while using iperf -t60 -c 192.168.178.128 as command are as follows:

Client connecting to 192.168.178.128, TCP port 5001                                                                                 
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)                                                                                               
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[  3] local 172.17.0.2 port 58784 connected with 192.168.178.128 port 5001                                                          
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth                                                                                         
[  3]  0.0-60.1 sec   677 MBytes  94.5 Mbits/sec

running it several times does always result in this result.
If i am not mistaken - is my result close to the maximum possible over the wired connection (vero limitation).

When using the wireless connection i only get the following result:

Client connecting to 192.168.178.126, TCP port 5001                                                                                 
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)                                                                                               
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[  3] local 172.17.0.2 port 33462 connected with 192.168.178.126 port 5001                                                          
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth                                                                                         
[  3]  0.0-60.0 sec   317 MBytes  44.3 Mbits/sec

That beeing said - the NAS does support faster speeds as 44.3 MBits/sec, and the connection should not be as slow as it is.
I can get much faster read/write speeds on the NAS over wifi using different devices.

Does anyone have a clue how to move forward?

Best regards

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Does your 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz network have separate SSIDs?

Try connecting to a dedicated 5Ghz network and things should improve.

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Well, sorry…
My router only supports 802.11ac when using 5GHz.
I specifically disabled that to test with the most stable connection.

After enabling 5GHz my results are as followed:

Client connecting to 192.168.178.126, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)

[ 3] local 172.17.0.2 port 34412 connected with 192.168.178.126 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-60.1 sec 1.39 GBytes 198 Mbits/sec

Problem solved.
Let’s hope the 5GHz will get past that one wall which will be between router and vero, but that’s not a vero problem.

Thanks for the heads up and have a good weekend.

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Glad we’ve worked this out.

Let me know how you get on. Those numbers are definitely more in line with what I’d expect to see.

Best

Sam

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Reaching 207 MBit/s through the wall, no more buffering, even while streaming 4K with TrueHD audio.
Really enjoying the experience now.
Thanks again :slight_smile:

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