{"id":175,"date":"2017-11-08T04:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-11-08T04:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:42:49","slug":"getting-only-54mbps-on-a-5ghz-ac-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/getting-only-54mbps-on-a-5ghz-ac-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting only 54mbps on a 5Ghz AC network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solution? There are two.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch the WIFI security settings on your access point to use only CCMP (or AES).<\/li>\n<li>If 1 can&#8217;t be done, on Windows 10, you can force the use of CCMP (AES) via the wireless properties.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1.png 561w, https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the TKIP cipher is not compatible with higher data rates offered by the n and ac standards, as explained in this <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/678899\/wireless-ac-adapter-indicates-max-speed-is-54mbps-when-connected-to-wireless-ac\">StackOverflow answer<\/a>. Also, if your router broadcasts that it supports both CCMP and TKIP ciphers, for some reason Windows 10 will prefer to use TKIP by default. Why? I don&#8217;t know, but Windows 7 seems to choose CCMP by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solution? There are two. Switch the WIFI security settings on your access point to use only CCMP (or AES). If 1 can&#8217;t be done, on Windows 10, you can force the use of CCMP (AES)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gri.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}