slow Wifi - need to change the wifi channel on my TGH-3000...

[oO_dedlite_Oo]

...either that, or buy a new router!  Any thougts?

[Jayach]

Both ASUS and TP-Link do some nice routers.

[CrimsonLiar]

So how fast is the WiFi?  Are you definitely connecting to the 5GHz band? Is the WiFi in your devices capable of higher speeds?

[oO_dedlite_Oo]

150 mb/s - this on a 910 Pro Broadband connection - it would easily to 800 mb/s.  My PCIE NIC needs to use the same channel for WiFi as the router.

[CrimsonLiar]

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@oO_dedlite_Oo wrote:

My PCIE NIC needs to use the same channel for WiFi as the router.

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Yes, if you are connecting to the WiFi that is usually the case, or are you telling us that the PCIE NIC is doing something else too (access point, accessing a solar panel control unit, etc)?  If the NIC is performing multiple tasks targeting multiple stations, then its station-to-station speed may drop depending on both its own capabilities and those of the stations it's connecting to - WiFi6 would be a real bonus!

Is the computer connecting via the 5GHz radio?  Not the VF router here, but my PC this morning has decided to connect to the Mesh node on 2.4GHz, so I've only got a 173.5Mbps connection (irrelevant since its roughly four times my VDSL2 WAN speed).

Using a PCIE NIC, if this is a desktop, then are the antennas sticking out the back of the PC, or connected by cables and sat somewhere sensible, and again, what are the capabilities of that NIC!

[Cynric]

From personal experience with PCIe WiFi network card it makes a difference where the PC is located in the room. Not only have I found that some walls appear to be more trouble than others (it may be that there happened to be wires or pipes just at that point), but also that putting the PC on the floor can be worse than on a desk. Obviously your experience will be difference, but if you can either move the PC or get an extension cable for the antenna you may get some benefit.

[CrimsonLiar]

Large desktop computers make excellent RFI shields when placed between the router and the NIC antennas!

[Jayach]

My PC came with a PCI-NIC, but it was 2.4Ghz only and basically useless with the antennas hidden by the PC.

I swapped it for USB AC adapter, used via a short USB cable to get it away from the back of the PC and it is now perfect.

As that left me with an empty slot in the PC, I used a PCI USB card to give me 4 extra USB3 ports.