On: Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits

[WhitneyLand]

Wireless routers can't really do gigabit speeds? That doesn't sound right.

Also he says a separate high bandwidth signal coordinates the units, would that limit range? Why not a lower bandwidth signal?

[windowsworkstoo → WhitneyLand]

802.11ac wave 1 is 1.3Gbps theoretical max, Wave 2 is 2.3Gbps or so theoretical max. But that's half duplex. And it's shared amongst every station on the AP, so it'd be rare to see consistent gig speeds for a station anywhere other than a lab or perfect test setup.

[mtgx → WhitneyLand]

I don't think we'll see consistent 1Gbps+ speeds for Wi-Fi until the 802.11ax standard arrives, which is probably 2018-2019.

This is a good post about it:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/184685-what-is-802-11ax...

[honkhonkpants → WhitneyLand]

Geez, complain much? It's a miracle it works at all.

[imtringued → honkhonkpants]

It doesn't. At least not for me.