![]() You can direct where you want your bandwidth to go and can monitor your internet traffic to see short-term and long-term trends to inform the settings that best fit your online needs. I think Wi-Fi equipment manufacturers are finally improving their equipment's max rate for maximum throughput due to savvy consumers expecting it.NetLimiter is a software program that allows you to control how your internet connection is used. I'm not an expert on the hardware components but for the last couple of years I have shopped for my company with max rate in mind, though this information is not always available. This is laptop to server, not internet speed. In my Wi-Fi testing, the maximum wireless throughput I have seen is about 500 Mbps. Lately I've seen other manufacturers have max rates of 450 (Belkin and Ubiquiti) and 600 (Linksys). It's been a while but I'm thinking this was something like 255 or 345. The second device shows to be Cisco/Linksys.įor quite a while Netgear wireless equipment had the best max rate for consumer equipment. The latter two are becoming more common lately as Belkin's Wi-Fi device sales have declined somewhat. Based on the mac addresses, the first AP is either Belkin, has some Belkin components or is equipment manufactured by Belkin under another name. I believe an access point's max rate depends on the chips and other hardware used on the devices circuit boards. ![]() I've used InSSIDer and other tools for quite some time and have had similar questions. For example, at one point 802.11g devices with MIMO support (a feature from 802.11n) were popular to exceed the 54Mbps max data rate. This performance edge also typically requires that you also use their adapter that understands the proprietary extensions, otherwise it will only perform like a "normal" device. What do I mean about proprietary extensions? Sometimes once the next 802.11 performance amendment is being drafted, vendors of consumer devices will "back port" features from the new amendment into their products to give them a "performance" edge in their marketing. Either your second device is using proprietary extensions to 802.11n or it has some serious issues with it's firmware. If my assumption about inSSIDer is not true, then this brings us to one of the other two options I can see. MCS 9 is not supported by the standard for two spatial streams with a 20MHz wide channel. At MCS 8 w/2 spatial streams (802.11ac MCS values don't include the number of spatial streams so never exceed 9) with this configuration the maximum data rate is 156Mbps. ![]() If this assumption about a problem with inSSIDer is true, then this is an 802.11ac access point with support for two spatial streams running a 20MHz wide channel in 2.4GHz with a long guard interval. Or if your client is only 802.11n, it may be working as intended and showing the networks only as capable as your client can utilize. By this I mean that it is recognizing 802.11ac data rates, but is not showing that this is an 802.11ac network. Most likely inSSIDer has a bit of a split personality (I haven't used the particular version you are running) because of a problem in the code or an oversight by the developers. I would call this one easy as well, but the 802.11 column in your screenshot is showing "n" as the only value. The 156 data rate device is a bit more of a mystery. ![]() At MCS 15 the data rate for this configuration is 144.4Mbps. This is a 802.11n device capable of two spatial streams and running a 20MHz wide channel in 2.4GHz with a short guard interval. Let me address the lower entry first with the max data rate of 144. You don't mention the vendor or models of the devices running in your home, but based on the information in the information included we can tell a few things. TLDR the two devices broadcasting networks in your home are different and have different capabilities.
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