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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
That’s the point. Connecting my computer to the router via ethernet gets me 20+ mbps. On WiFi I get 17+mbps at best and as low as 11 on high traffic hours. Even at peak power times I get 17+ at one end of the house and, “Whut, are you talkin to me?” at the other end. I’m paying for 20mbps and I’d like to use it. As it is I’m getting buffering delays on the TVs that are 90 feet from the router.
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You need to run Ethernet or go MoCA to as many devices that will accept a cord.
Understand that data transfer is bi directional and data is packet based.
A bunch of packets are sent and need to be acknowledged as received before more packets are sent. The return trip, the acknowledgment, is backhaul.
A wired network is like a two lane road, traffic moves in both directions simultaneously.
WIFI networks are like a one lane road where traffic has to take turns going in both directions.
In theory single frequency WIFI networks, without any of the other things that negatively affect them, are half as fast as their wired counterparts.
On a current gen AC dual band network you can set them up for one frequency to do TX and the other to do the backhaul. This is how they can claim to get a theoretical gigabit throughput.
Since you are limited to feeding your LAN with a 20 MB WAN there is still plenty of overhead on your side that to some degree mitigates that.
If you really want to go full on geek hang a caching proxy server off your router on the LAN side and you can in theory get a 20x's improvement in throughput on the LAN.