I am set up on the 5ghz band, 40mhz bandwidth, channel 48. That’s the best speed I can find, and I top out at 325 mb standing right on top of the router. When I switch it to 2.4ghz, it drops to under 100 mb, mostly into the 80s.
I split the 2.4ghz and 5ghz into separate bands during setup on both the router and the AT&T gateway (against the advice of AT&T, who I suspect want me on a combined 2.4ghz/5ghz setting so they can throttle my speed).
This particular router is new because the old one took a sudden dump, and when I first plugged it in during initial setup, I got 550 up and down on the very first reading, but haven’t gotten anything even close since.
I do suspect that my environment works against my getting anything over 325 mb, regardless of the settings. I am in a very big city where my house is literally ten feet from one next door neighbor and five feet from the other. I am, in fact, less than forty feet from the houses two doors down on either side. So, when I pull up available networks in my settings I see ten different Wi-Fi networks from outside the house, including three printers, in addition to the six I have in the house (two on the router, three on the gateway, my phone’s hotspot). So that might be an inhibiting factor right there.
If you had similar environmental circumstances, what steps would you take to further optimize speed?