{"id":15,"date":"2009-12-15T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin-mach.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/wireless-router-config\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T02:23:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T07:23:41","slug":"wireless-router-config","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/wireless-router-config\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Router Config"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered a huge performance decrease in download speeds and eventually narrowed it down to the way my wireless routers have been configured.<\/p>\n<p>As a note: my wireless routers are not used as routers but as access points and bridges.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you have to leave WMM support enabled in order for most 802.11n wireless cards to connect to an access point supporting 802.11n. But in my scenario, a wireless router configured as a bridge was the client. WMM is an extension of 802.11e, which is Quality of Service (QoS) for wireless protocols. The N-wireless standard requires that this is supported.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing I discovered was that the bridge client needs to have WMM support disabled or download speeds will be less than 1 Mbps  (as measured by http:\/\/speedtest.net) while upload speeds were normal for my ISP (Comcast Cable). I&#8217;m not exactly sure why, but it makes sense that the wireless client should not be setting WMM priorities over top of the access point&#8217;s priorities. It just confuses the communications since &#8220;upload&#8221; from the AP means &#8220;download&#8221; for the client and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, if you have wireless bridges &amp; APs, especially those running custom firmware, be aware of these settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered a huge performance decrease in download speeds and eventually narrowed it down to the way my wireless routers have been configured. As a note: my wireless routers are not used as routers but as access points and bridges. Basically, you have to leave WMM support enabled in order for most 802.11n wireless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,22,17,16,19],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-802-11","tag-qos","tag-router","tag-wireless","tag-wmm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}