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802.11ac is already capable of 400Mb/s or so. So you'd need a link faster than that, plus devices which have Wifi 6 AND can push/pull data that fast and do some
by Bud 7y ago
802.11ac is already capable of 400Mb/s or so. So you'd need a link faster than that, plus devices which have Wifi 6 AND can push/pull data that fast and do something with it. For most folks that's a no, so far.
- ac29 7y ago802.11ac is actually capable of over 3Gbps, though 4 stream devices are pretty uncommon. 2 streams @ 80MHz is pretty common though, and that provides 867Mbps (max link rate, actual throughput is of course lower).
- dboreham 7y agoTrue, but I was speaking in practical terms. To get that 400Mbit you need to be within a few feet of the AP typically. Plus, if there are several concurrently streaming devices on the network you won't achieve the theoretical aggregate maximum throughput. A good rule of thumb in WiFi marketing is to divide whatever throughput the retail box claims by 4 to get the practically achievable throughput. Meanwhile wired networking (the OP's upstream connection) actually delivers the marketed throughput.