In article , Char Jackson
wrote:
Is this the number on the connection setup page?
Or is it the actual USABLE data transfer rate where it actually matters
40 feet away from the router and your neighbor's wifi is closer than yours?
Or in the apartment building with 10 other people trying to use the
channel?
It varies greatly depending on the environment and circumstances,
which is the point. Those figures are the maximum under favorable
clear-channel, single-user conditions. It goes downhill from there.
Unless you live at nospam's house. Over there, wireless apparently works
better than wired.
this is not about my house or anyone's house.
the numbers don't lie. 802.11ac is faster than wired gigabit, 802.11ax
more so.
switch to wired 10gb-e and things change, but few people have 10gb-e to
their computer.
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20180706...e/wi-fi/wi-fi-
roadmap-wigig-and-beyond-tag17-tag99
Right now the cutting-edge of Wi-Fi products are largely based on
so-called Wave 2 of the IEEEšs 802.11ac standard. Wave 2, as compared
to Wave 1, can push speeds up to about 2.34 Gbps and offers
multi-user multiple-input, multiple-output (MU-MIMO). Below is a
table from Cisco that highlights the enhancements to Wave 2 as
compared to previous iterations of the 802.11 specification.
2.34 gbps is more than double that of wired gigabit.
real world speeds won't be that fast, but even at half, it's still
faster than gigabit.
and that's ac, not ax.