E8350 5GHZ Band and Macbook Pro

I saw another thread like this but really this should be brought to Linksys attention. The 5GHZ band is extremely slow with my Macbook Pro Retina (2012). It takes around 30 seconds to load any webpage if it loads at all. No other device has a problem and my macbook works with every other router at 5GHZ. The 2.4GHZ works fine. The strange thing is, the problem even happens when going straight to the router to make changes in the menu, not even outside the local network. It will take 30+ seconds to load any page in the router settings (sometimes it doesn't load at all). Oddly enough, it will load the login page instantly, anything other than that takes forever. The wifi networks aren't overlapping channels with each other, or my neighbors either. Any help would be appreciated.

ping www.yahoo.com: 64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=51.218 ms64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=52.501 ms64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=54.525 ms64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=53.394 ms64 bytes from 206.190.36.45: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=54.045 ms ping 192.168.1.1: 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.090 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.049 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=5.051 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=5.037 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=2.599 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=403.588 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=5.093 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=2.620 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=2.573 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=4.886 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=4.870 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=66.202 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=5.349 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=5.136 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=5.199 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=2.441 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=5.079 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=4.876 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=2.521 ms64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=176.117 ms traceroute www.yahoo.com: (5GHZ) -traceroute: Warning: www.yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 206.190.36.105-traceroute to fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com (206.190.36.105), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 5.144 ms 5.073 ms 2.451 ms 2 * * * 3 host-69-144-234-41.but-mt.client.bresnan.net (69.144.234.41) 13.573 ms 12.240 ms 8.995 ms 4 mslmt001dr5-xe-5-2-0-u0.int.bresnan.net (69.145.247.150) 14.613 ms 14.926 ms 27.741 ms 5 69.144.26.2 (69.144.26.2) 29.179 ms 30.772 ms 48.891 ms 6 lvtmt001cm1-ge-0-2.int.bresnan.net (72.175.110.76) 32.170 ms 29.580 ms 26.752 ms 7 38.104.126.53 (38.104.126.53) 34.154 ms 38.88.252.73 (38.88.252.73) 32.550 ms 38.104.126.53 (38.104.126.53) 33.458 ms 8 be2084.ccr22.sea01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.253) 33.531 ms 30.101 ms be2083.ccr21.sea01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.249) 29.549 ms 9 be2077.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.241) 49.943 ms be2075.ccr21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.233) 50.691 ms 50.415 ms10 be2016.ccr21.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.178) 51.753 ms be2015.ccr21.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.174) 49.873 ms 51.046 ms11 te0-0-2-0.agr11.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.98) 52.002 ms te0-0-2-0.agr12.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.62) 49.915 ms 50.915 ms12 yahoo.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.190) 58.853 ms 50.280 ms 154.54.14.58 (154.54.14.58) 56.712 ms13 ae-0.pat1.swp.yahoo.com (216.115.110.43) 49.315 ms 50.048 ms 47.520 ms14 216.115.101.109 (216.115.101.109) 52.928 ms 216.115.101.111 (216.115.101.111) 55.749 ms ae-5.pat2.gqb.yahoo.com (216.115.101.197) 56.669 ms15 66.196.67.1 (66.196.67.1) 53.154 ms 66.196.67.5 (66.196.67.5) 56.971 ms 66.196.67.3 (66.196.67.3) 55.908 ms16 98.137.31.133 (98.137.31.133) 55.514 ms unknown-67-195-1-x.yahoo.com (67.195.1.181) 57.360 ms 98.137.31.141 (98.137.31.141) 52.294 ms17 et-17-25.fab3-1-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com (67.195.1.83) 54.626 ms et-18-1.fab3-1-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com (67.195.1.81) 54.123 ms 98.137.31.186 (98.137.31.186) 54.904 ms18 po-11.bas1-7-prd.gq1.yahoo.com (206.190.32.17) 53.385 ms po-10.bas1-7-prd.gq1.yahoo.com (206.190.32.15) 55.489 ms 206.190.32.13 (206.190.32.13) 55.354 ms19 * * *20 * * * This whole process took about 5 minutes to complete. traceroute www.yahoo.com: (2.4GHZ) -traceroute: Warning: www.yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 206.190.36.45-traceroute to fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com (206.190.36.45), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 3.379 ms 1.040 ms 0.776 ms 2 * * * 3 host-69-144-234-41.but-mt.client.bresnan.net (69.144.234.41) 12.484 ms 20.470 ms 7.765 ms 4 mslmt001dr5-xe-5-2-0-u0.int.bresnan.net (69.145.247.150) 17.085 ms 18.684 ms 41.053 ms 5 seawafh2cr5-xe-3-3-0-u0.int.bresnan.net (69.144.26.2) 26.609 ms 26.746 ms 24.828 ms 6 lvtmt001cm1-ge-0-2.int.bresnan.net (72.175.110.76) 44.030 ms 28.533 ms 26.841 ms 7 te0-0-0-16.ccr21.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.104.126.53) 28.844 ms 39.352 ms 38.88.252.73 (38.88.252.73) 28.130 ms 8 be2084.ccr22.sea01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.253) 31.601 ms be2083.ccr21.sea01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.249) 29.245 ms be2084.ccr22.sea01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.253) 31.962 ms 9 be2077.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.241) 47.697 ms be2075.ccr21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.233) 48.365 ms be2077.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.241) 47.435 ms10 be2015.ccr21.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.174) 48.275 ms 50.377 ms 49.250 ms11 te0-0-2-0.agr11.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.98) 48.403 ms 49.199 ms 50.759 ms12 yahoo.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.14.58) 49.978 ms 47.774 ms yahoo.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.14.62) 47.646 ms13 ae-6.pat2.swp.yahoo.com (216.115.100.91) 50.326 ms 47.864 ms 50.907 ms14 ae-7.pat2.gqb.yahoo.com (216.115.101.109) 52.846 ms ae-7.pat1.gqb.yahoo.com (216.115.96.45) 69.071 ms ae-7.pat2.gqb.yahoo.com (216.115.101.109) 53.439 ms15 ae-1.msr2.gq1.yahoo.com (66.196.67.3) 54.056 ms 54.956 ms ae-1.msr1.gq1.yahoo.com (66.196.67.5) 75.433 ms16 xe-1-0-1.clr2-a-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com (98.137.31.133) 53.272 ms unknown-67-195-1-x.yahoo.com (67.195.1.185) 52.265 ms unknown-67-195-1-x.yahoo.com (67.195.1.181) 54.880 ms17 et-17-1.fab3-1-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com (98.137.31.172) 51.487 ms et-18-1.fab7-1-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com (67.195.1.245) 51.412 ms et-17-25.fab4-1-gdc.gq1.yahoo.com (67.195.1.87) 53.990 ms18 po-11.bas1-7-prd.gq1.yahoo.com (206.190.32.17) 71.616 ms po-9.bas1-7-prd.gq1.yahoo.com (206.190.32.13) 64.514 ms po-11.bas2-7-prd.gq1.yahoo.com (206.190.32.33) 50.988 ms19 * * *20 * * * This process took about 10 seconds to complete. netstat -rn: Routing tables Internet:Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expiredefault 192.168.1.1 UGSc 67 67 en0127 127.0.0.1 UCS 0 0 lo0127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 26 lo0169.254 link#4 UCS 0 0 en0192.168.1 link#4 UCS 2 0 en0192.168.1.1/32 link#4 UCS 2 0 en0192.168.1.1 b4:75:e:c1:63:2b UHLWIir 69 143 en0 978192.168.1.122/32 link#4 UCS 0 0 en0192.168.1.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWbI 0 2 en0 Internet6:Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire::1 ::1 UHL lo0fd02:1a5b:2826::/64 link#4 UC en0fd02:1a5b:2826::167:d734:ee1b:422b c8:e0:eb:19:88:87 UHL lo0fd02:1a5b:2826::cae0:ebff:fe19:8887 c8:e0:eb:19:88:87 UHL lo0fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 UcI lo0fe80::1%lo0 link#1 UHLI lo0fe80::%en0/64 link#4 UCI en0fe80::b675:eff:fec1:632b%en0 b4:75:e:c1:63:2b UHLWIi en0fe80::cae0:ebff:fe19:8887%en0 c8:e0:eb:19:88:87 UHLI lo0fe80::%awdl0/64 link#8 UCI awdl0fe80::5c7b:65ff:fe51:6bf4%awdl0 5e:7b:65:51:6b:f4 UHLI lo0ff01::%lo0/32 ::1 UmCI lo0ff01::%en0/32 link#4 UmCI en0ff01::%awdl0/32 link#8 UmCI awdl0ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UmCI lo0ff02::%en0/32 link#4 UmCI en0ff02::%awdl0/32 link#8 UmCI awdl0 [Process completed] I can make a video showing the differenence. It doesn't seem to show here but it happens...

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Your hotspot will be billed by AT&T or Verizon based on your iPhone's model. Only the iPhone 4 from Verizon would allow a Verizon hotspot. Others have posted information revealing that the Verizon 3G connection is somewhat slower than the AT&T service. Also, the Verizon service suspends the use of hotspot when you take a phone call. The AT&T service continues during calling.
Selecting the hotspot feature under General> Settings> Personal Hotspot will change your data plan from your previous 250MB, 2GB, or unlimited amount to a new 4GB plan that includes tethering. AT&T charges me $45 instead of my Unlimited, but No Tethering Allowed, $30.
You can connect three devices that have WiFi. Verizon hotspots can connect five. Your speed should be about the same as the iPhone 4 browsing speed on 3G. If your phone is on WiFi, the devices need to connect separately to that WiFi, not to your hotspot. I would love to see a software update that allows my WiFi connection to be shared, so I don't have to manually connect the iPods that my boys use one at a time.

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