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Is it normal my iPhone 11 Pro's wifi speed limited to ~450Mbps when i connect to AX8 5GHz?
I just bought AX8 yesterday and I connected to 5GHz and the results were all limited to around 450Mbps (451 highest), is it because of the channel i chose? (I'm using 160), and which chnnel or settin...
avtella wrote:
If I recall correctly, the iPhone 11 does not support HT160 it’s HT80 only. Also I believe there are some issues with the WiFi firmware that were supposed to be fixed on the iPhone 11 in the recent .1 iOS update.
If it’s any solace, either way I doubt it makes much of a difference on a mobile device as you’d realistically probably never use anywhere close to that much bandwidth on a phone at any given time other than benchmarks like Ookla or DSL Reports.
thanks, I'm not an apple guy so wasn't aware of the Iphone limitations.
Also note that WiFi-6 will realistically only give you like 5-10% increase in performance over WiFi-5, and maybe up to 15-20% in rare cases as 1024QAM is more sensitive to noise so don’t expect to be at max link rate all the time. WiFi-6 is more about better spectrum sharing especially in multi AP/router environments allowing for better performance in signal dense situations.
450 Mbps is actually pretty decent benchmark and, and also depends how close you are to the router and how many walls/floors are between you and the router as well. I wouldn’t expect more than say 600-800 Mbps peak real world throughout and that too at close ranges.
450 Mbps is actually pretty decent benchmark and, and also depends how close you are to the router and how many walls/floors are between you and the router as well. I wouldn’t expect more than say 600-800 Mbps peak real world throughout and that too at close ranges.
- Got it! Thanks so much for explaining that to me, i thought wifi6 will make my connection much faster
agree with avtella speed assessments and speed increases. you really aren't going to see a whole lot of change. Its more about handling multiple connection simultaneously.
450mbps is quite fantastic and other than updates or downloading large files, you're phone isn't even going to fully utilize that.
- Yes i expected too much on wifi 6. And when i use my old iPad to test it’s a huge difference
- Also the MU-MIMO do i need to enable it?
- MU-MIMO helps if you have at least 2 MU capable devices as the router lumps multiple MU devices into a single grouping for transmissions. Basically a router rotated between devices 1 at a time for transmissions in a round robin fashion but it happens so fast that it seems like all devices are transmitting back and forth at once. What MU does is it allows multiple MU capable devices to be talked to in parallel. But MU is only most useful when there’s a big enough distance between the MU capable devices, I think like more than 3ft (don’t quote me on that). You can enable MU, won’t really hurt but some Broadcom based MU devices actually do worse with MU enabled, the iPhone uses a Broadcom WiFi chipset but maybe that issue is fixed in this gen of their WiFi chipsets.
- I just tried and it seems a bit slower than not enabling it. I’ll just keep it off. Thank you all for the quick replies!!
avtella wrote:
Also note that WiFi-6 will realistically only give you like 5-10% increase in performance over WiFi-5, and maybe up to 15-20% in rare cases as 1024QAM is more sensitive to noise so don’t expect to be at max link rate all the time. WiFi-6 is more about better spectrum sharing especially in multi AP/router environments allowing for better performance in signal dense situations.
450 Mbps is actually pretty decent benchmark and, and also depends how close you are to the router and how many walls/floors are between you and the router as well. I wouldn’t expect more than say 600-800 Mbps peak real world throughout and that too at close ranges.But does the iphone 11 has 1024QAM?
I just bought one and didn't tink it had it
I'm thinking of buying a router, it could help me a lot to make a choice
That's very odd. I have a RAX50 and it's definitely faster than 450Mbps
