WIFI not up to Modem speed

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wcalifas wrote:

yea netgear falsely saying they're faster.

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Disagree. The WiFi link rates allow higher speeds, say for talking to multiple (Fast Ethernet only here) LAN ports and the other WiFi band concurrently. Up to here nothing false.

Obvious, the R6080 with it's two AC1000 radios can't go beyond the one and only WAN port which is one of five 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet ports - also clearly part of the specs on the data sheet. So one star is definitively wrong - it does what it can do.

We can dispute if a router with just Fast Ethernet ports is state of the art, however there are still many applications (and Internet connections) out in this world, even 100Mb/s is a dream for many. If we think about the fact that this router does sell for about the cost of a power supply plus some money in electronics and an enclosure cleverly invested..

Doing the same comparison with a top of the line 802.11ac (I'm intentionally not talking WiFi 6 or WiFi 6E - but the same applies here) does show that most of these devices have more aggregated WiFi (and much more on the typically four Gigabit Ethernet ports) capacity is in the 5..7 Gb/s range, while the majority Internet services are still operated on Internet connections physically limited by a single Gigabit Ethernet port - being on the router, being on the ISP CPE. Does any of these routers or ISPs get a one star only for this reason?