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Thinking that router will make your Wi-Fi superfast? Not so fast, buddy!

2016-06-24
hi guys dome goes here and I have here pretty nice router but it's not about you today it's about you now some of you actually many of you have complained to me that after having invested in a nice Wi-Fi router you didn't get the performance at home that you expected now the key word here is expectation and today I'm going to set that right when it comes to buying networking equipment there are three speed that you need to be aware of the advertising speed the ceiling speed and the actual real world speed now first the advertising speed take a look at this one here this is a AC 2600 router suggesting that it is a 802 point you have an AC router which is Chu and it has some 2600 megabit per second performance that is completely wrong now here's why this one here is a true dual band router meaning it can work in two separate band at the same time and also a top-notch router so on the hood frequency band it has the ceiling speed up seventeen hundred and thirty three megabit per second and on the 2.4 gigahertz band up to eight hundred megabits per second now come by those two you have a some 2533 megabit per second or roughly twenty six hundred megabits per second but a Wi-Fi client like this iPhone sick an connect to the router on only one band at a time so the connection can only cap at either seventeen hundred and thirty three mega people second or eight hundred megabit per second at a time now that is from the railroads perspective from the client it's a bit different story now the phone here support the 802 pointed a Wi-Fi standard but just the lowest tier of it and cap at only 433 megabit per second so when the two connects it is the ceiling speed of the phone the rule is in a connection the ceiling speed is that of the slower device because a condition is as fast as its weakest link in other words if you have all clients at home getting a topknot Wi-Fi and router will not help much with the speed if at all now that brings us to the actual speed there's many factors that affect the actual Willman speed of Wi-Fi for example the distant the further away the client from the router the slower it gets there also obstacle in between them like wall of furnitures and there are interference from other devices that use the same signal on the same frequency band and finally hardware and software from different vendors might not work optimally with one another so generally in my experience of many years testing Wi-Fi router and access point in the best case scenario the real one speed is about a third of the ceiling speed oftentimes must slow so when you read the Box like this one here do not ever believe in the numbers after up to they are never right but the thing is faster Wi-Fi speed always mean faster real-world speed this is not as fast as they cracked up to be now for more on this matter check out my full riya sen calm but the takeaway is do not send invitation which on what the vendors telling as about as helpful as reading the beauty magazine for the articles instead get your connection based on what I tell you and I tell you what no matter what I sell in that magazine you look fine the way you are I know I do and that's because I'm dumb no and this has been a quick explanation on what is real really
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