[MUD_Wizard]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

That's not entirely true. The 5Ghz will perform a lot faster, especially on mobile devices.

In certain conditions yes.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

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.

Agreed. Though 5ghz 802.11n is also dependent on HT and MIMO. All wireless is subject to interference etc.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

The 5Ghz rating of 433Mbps is pure "single-threaded" throughput.

433Mbps isn't throughput, it's the communication link rate, with 802.11ac using HT80 you get around half of that as throughput (speed you see on a speed test) after communication overheads. i.e. Around 215Mb.

vs on 802.11n you see around 2/3rds of the link rate as throughput. Using 300Mbps link rate, that's around 200Mbps.

Excluding interference or device limitations for both.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

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.

LOL ... because that works so well when comparing across processor families.
Mhz is an inaccurate measure of processor performance.

3.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 672 (average CPU mark 402)
vs
AMD A4-5000 1.5 Ghz (average CPU mark 1893, single thread rating 585)