Anything is possible, of course. It may indeed be the case that your particular router or combination or radio environment is not supporting the speeds you require.
But before you go blaming a particular piece of equipment, test it. Start from your broadband connection. Plug your computer into the modem, restart computer and modem, and run a speed test on the computer. Then rewire your router, and test that, using Ethernet. Plug your computer into an Ethernet port of your router, and do a speed test. And finally use Wi-Fi. You can use an iPhone if you like; just make sure that your router and device support the latest Wi-Fi standard common to both, i.e. AC for AirPort Extreme. At what point does the speed become noticeably worse? Now you know, and you can start to figure out where the problem is. What is the nature of your broadband connection. How is it delivered to you. Are you given a modem, or a router? Some routers, especially cable routers, start out life as NAT boxes, but can be put into “Modem mode”. You should do this, and let AirPort handle the NAT. How about address assignment? Do you use DHCP, or PPPoE? AirPort is not so great for PPPoE, although it does work. There will be a loss of performance compared to other gateways, however. DHCP is usually the more common to cable; PPPoE is for DSL/VDSL/FTTP/FTTC. The story is rather different with classical DSL, unfortunately. Because of ancient history and incompetence, fuelled as it was by people whose only object was the making of money, many DSL routers are sufficiently specific to a provider as to be irreplaceable. Others cannot help but function as IP routers rather than as bridging modems. Now you will have to go the other way around: tell AirPort to bridge, and use your modem as the router. All bets are off as to the exact performance characteristics you will get, but once again the only way to know for sure where the blame lies is to test. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
