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[orellius]

Hi,

For starters, I reads the 300 Mbps sticky!

I have laptop that has a DWA-652 PCMCIA Xtreme-N card. It has successfully connected to my DIR-655 router at 300 Mbps for about a year.

My router has been setup this whole time to work in that mode. (20/40 auto, N/G mode, AES cipher, latest drivers on card).

I built a desktop for my wife and bought DWA-130 USB adapter. Installed the latest drivers. It connects at 120 Mbps upstairs and on the other side of the house. I thought that strange, my laptop was in the same room at high quality signal 300 Mbps.

I pulled the DWA-652 card out of the laptop, and put in the DWA-130 from my wifes PC. Then took the laptop to the same room as the router. The connection jumped to 150 Mbps. Which is half of 300 Mbps.

So it's not the computers, because it did the same thing on the laptop and the desktop.

Any tips? Obviously the router is set up properly. It's like the card doesnt recognize the 40 Mhz band, and is cutting half the bandwidth.

Thanks in advance! 

[scottcollin]

I have the same problem.

I have done everything that the note on how to fix this suggests.

Any other ways to fix the speed problem?

[orellius]

I returned it and wired my whole house with CAT6 for about $70. I'm tired of wireless. 

Streaming videos on anything other than 5 GHz spectrum is useless. And I'm not talking HD here, just 700 MB AVI files over Wireless Xtreme-N at 300 Mbps.

[genesis]

in order to have 300 mpbs, you have to set the channel width on the router and adapter to auto, and the encryption must be WPA-2 AES. also, the network shoud be set to mix g and n only. Once it is all done, you will get 300 mpbs. I do with all adapters and checked the speed through the router status screen. All is good

[orellius]

in order to have 300 mpbs, you have to set the channel width on the router and adapter to auto, and the encryption must be WPA-2 AES. also, the network shoud be set to mix g and n only. Once it is all done, you will get 300 mpbs. I do with all adapters and checked the speed through the router status screen. All is good

Did you even read what I wrote in the post? Those are already set, and have been for a couple of years. My other PCMCIA adapter works at 300 Mbps, this one did not, on 2 different PC's, therefore no, that is not what you need to do. There is something wrong with the drivers or the USB model, and I am not the only one to see this issue. My other PCI-e one works at 300 as well.

Thanks for chiming in without reading.

[genesis]

no need to take it so personnaly but which revision did you have? I know A1 and B1 worked but C1 was a disaster.

Also you said you router was setup properly but what about the adapter? I had to make changes in the properties to get it to run at 300. It did not work at 300 right away.

[Madzcat]

I know nobody has posted in this thread for a long time, but I think its still rather relevant and its not off the first page or anything.

So I was/am having the same problem though I have the E revision. I was only able to get 150 mbps max according to Windows. However I used the included cradle to try and see if I could get a better signal strength according to the router. (Was only getting about 30% according to the router though full strength according to Windows.) So as soon as I got it to around 50%+ signal strength it jumped up to 270 mbps and stayed there though Windows still says only 120 Mbps.
So is the router telling me the truth or is it lying and Windows is correct?

[genesis]

Well, the router would be the one to trust. Windows would report 150 mpbs for my laptop, but in the dir 615 interface, it would show as 300. So windows is not so reliable. Trust the router

[Madzcat]

Lol ok thats what I figured. Good to know I am getting the right speed and that I don't have a bad adapter or anything.

[mrrod]

My problem seems to be worse than those posted here, I'm using WDA 130 Rev c and d-link dir 615 router, my settings are:

Mixed N & G
Channel 11
auto 20/40
WPA-Personal
WPA2 only
AES


On the WDA 130 I have :
security type: WPA2-personal
AES

And my connection speed on windows says 15Mbps, i'm only 20 feet away from the router.

[mrrod]

Forgot to add to above post that i'm using windows 7 64 bit.

[genesis]

which revision of the DWA 130 do you have? and also did you try other channels with the router? I know that channel 8 was really bad for me (connection dropping, unsecured,etc...). I switched to Channel 1, and no problem since then.

[mrrod]

Rev C1 Fv 3.12NA, changed to ch 1 and windows (7 64bit) reads 60Mbps, the router reads 5M - 11M, seems it fluctuates and the signal strength is 80%.

[mrrod]

Rev C1 Fv 3.12NA, changed to ch 1 and windows (7 64bit) reads 60Mbps, the router reads 5M - 11M, seems it fluctuates and the signal strength is 80%.

Had to change the signal to g+b , in N the pc kept dropping the signal, router now states 18M !