And that isn't guaranteed speed, when the neighbors are on during busy times the download speed regularly drops to half that. The highest fiber plan available to me is 100/100. But where I live I have a choice of 2 ISPs, AT&T and Comcast.ĪT&T offers fiber(yay!), but they oversell their nodes so badly that the speeds are shit. Look at that, on my "old" 802.11ac setup, I can stream two 4K YouTube streams just fineĬlick to expand.Internet in the US is pretty terrible for various reasons. So again, why limit things to 7MB/s?Įvery single one of your statements are just mindboggling. Note that this is on a single Wi-Fi radio and not a router using two 5GHz radios.Įven a 1,200Mbps sync rate 802.11ax client should be able to pull in excess of 700Mbps, which is around 88MB/s. Sure, you'd most likely need at least four clients to make proper use of the router, but that's because most clients are either 1x1 or 2x2 today, as 3x3 produces too much heat and I haven't single a single 4x4 client solution for 802.11ax. Did tRump give everyone a fibre connection?Īnd why in the name of Cthulhu would you limited your Wi-Fi connection to 7 (I presume Megabytes per second)?Ĩ02.11ax routers aren't the limiting factor here, as there are 8x8 routers that can sync at 4,800Mbps. How is it that most Americans have Gigabit internet connections? This is news to me. But if you move to the other side of the house you'll probably find that link speed has re-negotiated down to something like ~200Mbps.Ĭlick to expand.And how did you conclude this? Again, what does Wi-Fi has to do with the internet line speed? If you connect to the router with your laptop in the same room as the router, it might negotiate a link speed of ~500Mbps. It also isn't a fixed number, it will change every few seconds. The two devices handshake and decide what the highest reliable connection speed is.
A ~500Mbps connection with a 2x2 internal card is about average from my experience and then your actual speed is going to be about 80% of that.Īs for the number in Windows, that is the negotiated link speed between the computer and the router. However, don't expect 1200Mbps over even WiFi 6. It will transfer to your computer at near 1200Mbps, it won't be limited to 600Mbps. So if you try to, for example, copy a large file from your home NAS. However, most traffic is mostly one directional. Yes, this effectively means that if you are sending and receiving at the same time, it can only do 600Mbps in each direction. So if you have a 1200Mbps connection, you can receive at 1200Mbps but then can't send anything or you can send at 1200Mbps but then can't receive anything. WiFi is half-duplex, but half duplex just means you can only send or received at one time not both.