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Question on Orbi 2nd 5ghz Band
Hello,
All the existing routers ( AC3200 or AD 7200) has both 5ghz bands of combined 2600Mbps and 4600+1733+800 Mbps of speeds on AD7200 Router
I see that Orbi has 1x 2.4ghz and 1 x5 ghz for ...
Thanks for the detailed explanation. i do understand the actual connection speed vs bandwidth
Presently i have R8500 (AC5300) with dual 5ghz band.
when i connect to Orbi and if i am using 200 Mbps data rate on 4 devices , will my 5th device speed will be decreased ?
the question i am asking is bcoz i have about 30 plus devices in my home. and sometimes data transfer will be huge between devices
i want to know how will orbi handle it
You'll need to test it out and see how it goes. Having many devices on one wireless AP can see some degradation of performances. Ideal configuration would be to spread out your many devices and have them connect to more than one wireless AP.
I presume having that many, you may see some, just depends on whats going on with each device at the time. Something you'll have to test. Not all environments and configurations are the same.
- The answer to your question will always be, it depends what the devices are doing but if it helps I have over 30 devices connected and stream 4K video plus a large Sonos system and my Orbi network copes easily. When I am streaming 4K from one of my satellites, I can still max out the bandwidth on my iPhone so it’s pretty good.