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Not to mention internet speeds vary wildly from home to home, environment to environment.ĭepending on the internet speeds you pay for, the configuration of your room, the material used to build the home, etc. So in reality your top possible speed is really just 850 MBps (since the 5.0 GHz band offers the highest speeds).

BEST ROUTER PLUS

When you read router speeds what the number is really telling you is the combination of the speed offered by the 2.4 GHz band PLUS the speed of the 5.0 GHz band.Īn advertised speed of 1200 MBps is actually just 350 MBps on the 2.4GHz band and 850 MBps on the 5.0 GHz band. There are even routers out there that offer tri-band, or three separate network bands but unless you anticipate a ton of concurrent users on your network, I wouldn’t worry about it just yet. The dual-bands avoid connection issues and interferences and provides more stability overall. Having two separate networks allows for faster speeds and flexibility. This gives you the ability to connect devices in your home to two different networks (either the 2.4 GHz or 5.0 GHz network). The good news is that almost all routers these days have dual-band radio signals. I’ll talk about this a bit later but for now just know that I don’t think it will be truly relevant for average consumers for several years at least. There is an even more recent version of 802.11 called 802.11ax, or WiFi 6.

You can imagine how important this is the more devices you have connected to your network.

MU-MIMO allows you to avoid this congestion altogether. So when multiple devices or users begin accessing the router at, or near the same time, congestion is introduced as the first request is serviced, and the other requests “wait in line”. This is because earlier versions of 802.11 work on a “first-come, first serve basis”. Without this your top WiFi speed would be determined by the slowest device on your network. This is key to maximizing the available bandwidth you have! MU-MIMO allows your router to maintain multiple connections with multiple devices at the same time. The key here is that 802.11ac Wave 2 enables something called MU-MIMO – or “Multi-User – Multiple Input, Multiple Output”. Luckily in recent years they’ve started calling this “WiFi 5”, which is a lot easier to keep track of. I know, the naming convention is terrible. 802.11ac wireless standard, Wave 2 ( MU-MIMO)Ĩ02.11ac Wave 2 is just a wireless internet standard.