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r7800 vs r7900
Setup: r7800 firmware 1.02 r7900p 1.03 1400 sq ft two floors All speeds in mbs repeated 5 times R7800 5ft 190 r7900p 643 20 ft 200 r7900p 225 Upstairs R7800 110 r7900p 95 Downstairs r7800 15...
- Ok. Tried a used r7800 which I obtained separately. That worked at 630 mbps at 5 feet. And 415 at 20ft. Mu Mimo was enabled and ht 160 did not make a difference.
Signs of a crippled r7800. Wan port kept dropping out. Also the setup would not allow for an AP mode easily. Compared to r7900p though so far it’s been similar. The price of a used one would make this a choice for the 7800
You can download free programs online for either pc/mac or from an app store for channel scanning.
Triband does have its benefits. I've got around 20+ 5ghz devices so its nice to seperate them out a little bit.
Again, wireless speed testing is nice for an indicator of a problem (is there?) or are you just testing to see which device works best for you?
I test a lot of routers and can get different results each time I test, with different firmwares, different time of days, different wifi channels, etc.
I'd recommend playing around with both routers testing different locations, different wifi channels, or even just getting all your devices connected and seeing which device performs the best. I've got a RAX200 that I've had the best single speed from a router but I still go back to my orbi because its consistantly faster over the whole house and provides better coverage. it might be peak speed slower but its much better at distance.
No problems with the streaming. Actually the only painful part of this was trying to log on to the router!
Your last statement about transmission in addition to coverage is what I am trying to measure. With the gigabit speed I noted the old n class router was maxed out at 70 mbps.
Switching to ac now there are so many recommended levels that’s why I am testing to settle on one. Overall the 7900p coverage is very wide and has been adequate. I thought I must be missing something with the review numbers being as high as 900 mbps for 7800 that I could tap into.
Your last statement about transmission in addition to coverage is what I am trying to measure. With the gigabit speed I noted the old n class router was maxed out at 70 mbps.
Switching to ac now there are so many recommended levels that’s why I am testing to settle on one. Overall the 7900p coverage is very wide and has been adequate. I thought I must be missing something with the review numbers being as high as 900 mbps for 7800 that I could tap into.
A lot of those high numbers are with 160hz operation under optimimal testing. You need to make sure your router is setup to use 160hz (check to see if enabled and channels selected appropriately) as well as you're testing device supports 160hz channels.
- No nighthawk app does not show the options for 160mhz. Is that through the web interface?
Also with the iPhone. Are they capable of the 160 MHz channel allocation use?Page 67 of the manual has how to enable/disable 160mhz. I'm not sure if it can be done from the app. I've only done it through the browser gui.
I'm not an apple guy (zero apple products) so I couldn't tell you if iphones do support it or not. I know that it needs to support DFS to work.