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> at least a gig half duplex, half that for 2.4Ghz, right That depends on quite a lot. The quite popular Ubiquiti AC-LITE access point which I use has a max ba
by bscphil 6y ago
> at least a gig half duplex, half that for 2.4Ghz, right
That depends on quite a lot. The quite popular Ubiquiti AC-LITE access point which I use has a max bandwidth of 866.7 Mbps. At 2.4 GHz I can do only about 100 Mbps (there's a lot of traffic), and real-world bandwidth at 5 GHz tops out around 320 Mbps for me (tested with iperf). And the latter only became possible when I enabled 80 MHz channel width, which was somehow disabled on the Unifi firmware.
And that's before you get to the issue of what your devices are capable of, especially if they're older. My understanding is that unless you're on WiFi 6, you're limited below 1 Gbps for link speed unless you've got 3 antennas or an extension that can operate with 160 MHz channel width. The first phones that support WiFi 6 are barely two years old. Ubiquiti's first WiFi 6 router still only does 1.5 Gbps, so it's questionable what you'll get in a real world scenario, and the 4x4 MIMO version is still only taking pre-orders.
- lostmsu 6y agoI recently got a new PC, and temporarily moved the old one into a room with no ethernet. It connects to my 4+ years old Archer C1200 wirelessly over 5GHz on another floor in a diagonal room, and speedtest gives 3ms ping, 180Mbps down/164Mbps up. I have a lot of WiFi devices, but this is a single family residence.
- imwillofficial 6y agoI used TP link power line adapters for years to solve for this. Worked well.
- aksss 6y agoThis is a great point - I often forget about powerline Ethernet but it works great. I still have a couple 1Gbps units in a box somewhere and used it successfully years ago before doing proper cabling. This would be preferable to mesh WiFi if the ac wiring will let you get away with it.