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Wifi for at LEAST Gigabit throughput?
Upgrading my 1,200 sq ft home to Gigabit internet. While most routers can handle 1Gigabit speed when hardwired, which mesh system do you recommend that would be able to have at least 1 Gigabit WiFi t...
My Galaxy S10 and wife's S10+ have AX. My daughter's iPhone 11 has wifi 6. So yes, there are clients that should theoretically support 1Gbps.
Something to look into.
- The numbers stated in wireless specs these days in the GB range do not accurately represent the wireless network speed you'll get. There is a lot of overhead in the data signal that eats up that high number.
Here's a good site that explains Wi-Fi networking and cuts through the speed hype that's typical with nearly all of the vendors. https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#routerhype
Good news is it looks like a new Wi-Fi spectrum will become available in the 6Ghz band (Real Wi-Fi 6). This should cut down on interference, but the race for high speed numbers may end up hogging up the new band just as in the current 2.4 & 5Ghz bands.
On the bright side there are new modulation scheme standards coming with it, that are more efficient, and coexists with others better.
