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1700Mpbs backhaul much slower than 1000Mbps wire?
So I've had the Orbi system for 3 days now and it's worked well for wireless clients but I was wondering if I'm doing something wrong in regards to placement or configuration. My setup is the fol...
1733 is max theoretical, not real world. Reality is about half that under ideal conditions, less depending on the distance and obstructions between the router and satellite.
Rodney
I know that 1733 was the theoretical max but I thought the days of WiFi overhead taking up half the available bandwidth died with 802.11g. I recall getting a LOT closer to max on 802.11n and definitelly close to the 866Mbps on 802.11ac.
tomsliwowski wrote:I know that 1733 was the theoretical max but I thought the days of WiFi overhead taking up half the available bandwidth died with 802.11g. I recall getting a LOT closer to max on 802.11n and definitelly close to the 866Mbps on 802.11ac.
WiFi still has lots of overhead, so 50-60% of the link speed is all you will get. I measure 575 Mbs throughput over my Orbi backhaul using iperf3.
rhester72, fbraz50 and st_shaw thanks for the replies. So the starting point should be 50% or so of 1733 which is 866.5 or two of the 4 available 5GHz backhaul channels. Loosing another 20% for something like a wall would get me to about 693Mbps which is still double the rate that I'm actually getting.
In your opinions, what would be the best way to maximize the speed available? Should I try to relocate the router? (not super easy but maybe I can move it 2 feet to the left where it'll be closer to the Satellite) Should I disable MU-MIMO and Implicit Beamforming? This isn't a deal breaker for the system since it's been working well so far but I would like to maximize the performance especially to my main workstation.