wireless router settings

[CWO]

so just like everyone else, we have a ton of wireless devices at the house. I bought a AC1600 or 1900?!?!? (maybe, it's been a while) and it feels slow, Youtube, and loading pics from this site on my Android and on my wifes Iphone feels slow too. Any testing I do with speedtest.net shows over 100+dn/20+up on our phones.

I realize a lot of variables are in play in a residential neighborhood for wireless issues, but are there basic settings in the router I should have in order to make all things play nice and be faster?

currently I have both 2.4 and 5 on the same SSID in order for my wife to print wirelessly to the label printer we have. It seemed to work better when I split them, but then I had to put the printer on a different band/SSID so that won't work.

I doubt I made any sense. LOL

wireless devices:
iPad mini
iPhone 6
Samsung Note 5
Amazon Firestick
Epson XP-410 printer
The router is a Linksys, I'll have to get the model number later tonight.

also, I have a lot of devices on the wired side as well, if that matters, but I don't think it does

[LS1Goat]

One of the things I did that seemed to help, was using a wifi analyzer tool like inSSIDer to find the least crowded channel in use by my neighbors. The router default setting is automatic, but I manually selected the channel with the least overlap/usage. I also centrally located my router and have it sitting as high up as possible. I get 100% signal strength in the living room.

You may also want to look into your QoS settings to see how your router is prioritizing certain types traffic.

In terms of compatibility mode; As you noticed, when you keep it compatible for different flavors of 802.11x on the same SSID, it tends to slow down a bit. (e.g., Selecting one protocol makes a noticeable improvement on a FIOS router.)

I made a thread several years ago about the dramatic difference in performance when changing from stock firmware to DD-WRT firmware on a Linksys router. Night and day.

[big_tiger]

I have Wifi Analyzer on my android to find the least crowded channel. 5Ghz will be easy to find an unused channel. Not sure if all these settings will be on your router, but you can look.

Band Steering - Force more items on 5 Ghz band (you have to keep 2.4 and 5 on the same SSID)
Disable legacy data rates - If one wireless client is on a low data rate it will slow ALL other devices (Printers, and IOS devices like the lower data rates).

[CWO]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I downloaded Wi-fi Analyzer to find the best channels. Interesting to say the least. My router is pretty much set to 'auto' for everything. I moved it to the lowest utilized channels for both bands. As mentioned, the 5ghz band is virtually unused in my area.

I have a feeling the printer on Wireless N is fucking everything up, but the wife needs it for her business. She really only prints from her iPad though.... I imagine I can put those two devices on a different SSID than the rest?!?....

[big_tiger]

Does the printer have a Ethernet port?

[CWO]

I'm sure it does, I suppose I could run a wire back there.... hmmm

[big_tiger]

Make sure the wired NIC gets the same IP address as its wireless NIC and there should be no change in config anywhere else.

Wireless printers blow. I bought a Samsung last year and it doesn't even do N or AC, so I had to go wired. Google Cloud print is awesome.

[CWO]

Make sure the wired NIC gets the same IP address as its wireless NIC and there should be no change in config anywhere else.

Wireless printers blow. I bought a Samsung last year and it doesn't even do N or AC, so I had to go wired. Google Cloud print is awesome.

I suspected the printer from the beginning, but didn't think it was that bad. Maybe I'll do some testing with it on the network vs not on the network to see how much faster it is

Thanks for the suggestions.

[big_tiger]

Update?