I've found out, because wifi was subjectively slower. 5 GHz is nice, because the range is lower, your neighbors are not causing much noise anymore, so the real

I've found out, because wifi was subjectively slower. 5 GHz is nice, because the range is lower, your neighbors are not causing much noise anymore, so the real speeds did approach the theoretical limits (for me; in my environment; using Ubiquity APs, mostly nanoHDs). Apple used to be one of the vendors, that bothered to put better wifi in their products than competitors; now they fell back to mediocre 2x2 that all the PC vendors use.