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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87
tbh the improvement from superhub is massive!
not only i get more powerful wifi signal, the new router is handling the traffic perfectly.
he paid £25 for it.
but again, its 10 times superior to superhub1 .
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Not bad then, it might be the worst AC router but it's also the cheapest AC router I've seen so far too.
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Originally Posted by MUD_Wizard
LOL. No, he just looked for the cheapest router in the high street. You got lucky getting a dual-band router for that price. Although you can't really call that an ac router as the speed of the 5ghz is barely better than 802.11n. You'll be lucky to get 10Mb more speed on 5ghz than on 2.4ghz at close range (when using the highest settings on both).
Still, it's got a USB port for sharing media and files! lol.
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That's not entirely true. The 5Ghz will perform a lot faster, especially on mobile devices.
The 2.4Ghz rating of 300Mbps is dependant on HT and MIMO, neither of which work under high interference conditions and/or most mobile devices.
The 5Ghz rating of 433Mbps is pure "single-threaded" throughput. The equivalent rating for 2.4Ghz is 150Mbps. And that's before considering interference, which will bring it down to 72Mbps.
Think of it as the 2.4Ghz as a 700Mhz quad-core. The 5Ghz is a 4300Mhz single-core.
Anything can take advantage of single-core performance but only certain applications can make full use of multiple cores.