As the title explains, I have a Netgear WAX202 running 23.05 and now 24.10rc5 and the 5GHz band tops out at max 500Mbps. I have Intel AX200 and BE200 in all of my computers, OpenWRT and Fedora says my devices have negotiated 1,201Mbps link speed, but when I run a LAN speed test or an iPerf3 speedtest, I get a maximum 450-500 download and 300-400 upload. Do I have a defective unit? I have tried reinstalling OpenWRT, restoring default settings, etc.. The region is set to US, 80MHz channels, best channel selected based on WifiMan scanner. I do not have this problem on my Netgear WAX220 with the same settings (US, 80MHz), they get 1Gb up and down on the same computers.
Link speed <> real speed.
Yes, I know. Typically about 30% is used for overhead. That should leave me 840Mbps left for real world spead. I also have a WAX214v1 which is a 1,201Mbps device over 5GHz, and I get around 850-980Mbps.
Run htop on the router, when you run iperf3 to see if you max out the SoC, this happens on the AX23.
WiFi is half duplex. Need to take that into account as well. And like @frollic says: link speed is just that.
Did you bench the stock firmware? The WAX202 has a two-stream radio AFAIK - no way you're going to see 800 Mbps wireless. Not on OpenWrt, not on stock either.
With line of sight and an AX210 client I'm getting like 500 Mbps on my EAP615, which has the same radio.
WAX214 has a more powerful radio as well. You're comparing apples and oranges.
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I ran top when running the speedtest and the CPU only hits 60%. I posted this question on Reddit and the general consensus was that the radios in the WAX202 simply lack the ability to realistically reach the advertised speeds. Here is my post on Reddit:
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