Question Real world wifi maximum speeds?

[KHL]

A question out of curiosity, not need or a problem.

It seems to be pretty well known that the fastest internet transfer speeds come through a connection using an ethernet cable, and for various reasons including signal processing overhead, a wifi connection can not reach wired connection speeds.

The question is how do you reach the fastest wifi speed? There appears to be a combination of wifi adapters, routers and routers which result in speed that approach the so-called claimed maximum rates which appear to be unattainable.

Some say that wifi overhead will result in internet wireless speeds that can be no better than half of the wired transfer rates, but is this always the case?

Does anyone really know the hardware and setting combination that leads to really fast wifi, or is this a mystery or a secret?

 

[kanewolf]

You use 5Ghz WIFI, with 80Mhz (or 160mhz) bandwidth and have a client and router that support 3x3 radios. That will happen VERY infrequently and for a very short radius from the WIFI source.

 

[bill001g]

Depends how unrealistic you want to get with your testing. If you put the pc directly on top of the router you are going to get much better results than in the next room.

There have been people that have setup unrealistic tests to show you could get almost 1gbit on wifi. They used things like QaM1024 which is not part of the official standard and physically connect 4 antennas cables between the devices.

If you look at some of the more reputable testing sites they say you get 200-300mbps using the more commonly available devices at realistic distances. Most wifi devices are going to favor portability and battery life over performance so this tends to be your bottleneck.

 

[jsmithepa]

Yup, ^200-300 mbit is what's on top of my head. 'Cuz oftenly you are not willing to move your PC closer, nor do u have lots of control over noisy neighbors...

Don't fight it, pay the man to lay you an ethernet cable

 

[DeauteratedDog]

I've seen 550 Mbits/sec or so on my network. 4 stream AP, 3 stream client, 80 MHz channels, about 15 feet between the client and the AP.

 

[travistee]

What about TWEAKBIT ( tweakbit dot com ).
I did a wifi speedtest and an ad came up for this.
They claim that win10 can be adjusted to give much higher wifi speeds.

Any idea if this is actually works or is worth the money or other ways to adjust the windows settings to improve speeds.

 

[bill001g]

Of course not it is all hype. The delays are between the radio chip in your nic card and the router. There is almost nothing you can set in the radio chips....pretty much the few things you can set will make it run slower.