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Originally Posted by mmm
I never understand this class of router marketed as N900. Max wireless connect speed is 450Mb/s (3 streams 3 antennae), which seems to be capable of 150Mb/s data transfer! Perhaps full duplex wired Ethernet should be marketed as 2000Mb/s since it is so much better!
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Router manufacturers these days like to add up the cumulative speeds of all the separate wireless interfaces (and sometimes inflate them further) to quote a number for marketing. Thus "N900" can mean any combination of wireless networks that add up to a link rate of 900Mbps total, such as 450Mbps on 2.4Ghz
plus 450Mbps on 5Ghz in this case, or 300+300+300 or 600+300, etc.
Course you'll never hit anything close to that total speed - many router CPUs are too slow to even max out a single 450Mbps network let alone two simultaneously. Which make more recent claims of ludicrous speeds like AC3200 even more hilarious.
If you used the same logic on ethernet chances are your router would be marketed with a rating something like AB8000.