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I agree your comment was relevant. The person I was responding to said they weren’t using WiFi 6 at all, which I interpreted to mean that all of their client de

I agree your comment was relevant. The person I was responding to said they weren’t using WiFi 6 at all, which I interpreted to mean that all of their client devices were also still WiFi 5, but my interpretation could have been wrong. If you can run docker somewhere in your network, you could consider running an OpenSpeedTest server and browse to that from your iPhone. This would let you remove your ISP from the equation and see just how fast your WiFi 5 connection can go. I’m also mildly skeptical that your access point is WiFi 5, but instead might actually support WiFi 6, since you’re already close to the maximum speeds I was seeing out of a WiFi 6 access point and WiFi 6 client device before I upgraded my network. Maybe WiFi 6 clients can do some serious magic with WiFi 5 access points, but it just seems… unlikely. But if you’re sure, then the numbers are what the numbers are. It just doesn’t make much sense to me.

bradfa 3y ago
My AP is a Mikrotik hAPac2: https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 Mikrotik claims it is a wifi 5 device on 5GHz bands. Qualcomm says the SOC used also only supports wifi 5 on 5GHz: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/internet-of-things/networking/wi-fi-networks/ipq4018 https://www.qualcomm.com/products/internet-of-things/network... Installing the OpenSpeedTest app on my iPhone and then running the test from my desktop which has wired Ethernet shows 646Mbps/472Mbps throughput. Thanks for the tip about OpenSpeedTest! I have been curious to get a tool like this for other easy local speed testing! :)
- coder543 3y ago
  gotcha, it’s cool that you’re able to get such good performance out of a WiFi 5 AP! And yep, OpenSpeedTest is nice!