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Orbi RBK852 Experience
Just wanted to share my experience so far with the new RBK852. I have two devices that have WiFi-6, so thought I'd take the plunge and see how things went. I went through the app installation pr...
WiFi SweetSpots is ONLY for checking the connection rate between the RBR or RBS and your mobile device. Connection rate only. This differs from actual speed bandwidth throughput flowing from the mobile device to the RBR or RBS. Reason for checking the connection rate, is to see if your mobile device is connected at it's maximum connecction rate to the RBR or max rate of the RBR if the RBR has a lower connection rate compared to a mobile device. Most should have same or similar max connection rates.
WiFi sweet spots can help you trouble shoot if your device doesn't seem to be getting max thruput speeds, check WiFi Sweets spots with the device, for example if you notice that speeds are slow, and wifi sweet spots reveals your device is connecting at 300Mbps, then you might figure that the mobile device maybe connected at 2.4Ghz at 300Mbps when it should be connected at say 1300Mbps on 5Ghz, if the device supports that connection rate speed.
It may also point to a problem with the main wifi signal as well. If you know your device connects at higher rates and all of a sudden you don't see this while connected to the home routers wifi, can point to a problem with the wifi system as well.
It's just a stepping stone or useful troubleshooting tool to help you in wifi speed issues on mobile devices. Again, just connetion rates for this app. Bandwidth testing is handled by Ooklas speed test app.
Yes, I understand that WiFi Sweet Spot is attempting to show me the connection rate, but my experience with it shows it not to be accurate at all. It would show me connection rates averaging 100 Mbps, but when doing actual throughput tests using Speedtest, I would sometimes get just over 300 Mbps.
Unless I am not understanding something, I really shouldn't get throughputs above and beyond the connection rate. As another example, when you Option-click the WiFi icon an a Mac, it will display the transmission rate, which should be equivalent to what WiFi Sweet Spot is attempting to display. With my Macs, I never get actual throughputs that exceed this transmission rate. They are always slightly lower due to overhead.
Because of this, I don't think that WiFi Sweet Spot is providing me with accurate or useful information. This just my own personal experience with the app.