Performance Wireless 6G

Performance Wireless

For our tests we emulate what you would get performance-wise inside a house with a multi-level concrete ground and 1st floor. The router (host) is positioned at ground level and we test with a client in several stages.

Performance Wireless WIFI6E

The source router is with 802.11a, 802.11ac, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ax up-to WIFI 6E compatible. The router is located one floor below the office. We can precisely map and measure throughput by measuring multiple times per second during a test run of 30seconds in a host/client setup, what you see is true sustained throughput.

For example, if you have your router on the ground floor, and you want to watch Netflix in Ultra HD in your attic where you built your home-cinema setup or gaming crib. For Netflix, that signal would require at least roughly 25 Mbit/s. Netflix Ultra HD, in fact, uses just over 15 Mbit/s, but you need a little in reserve for caching and error correction. So 25 Mbit/s at the worst location would be the absolute total minimum goal to reach. It would also be an acceptable figure for a bit of web browsing of course. Now before you look at the results, let me state this, results will vary anywhere and everywhere on this globe. There are so many variables that have an effect on WIFI it's staggering. Also, you can have a great WIFI router (HOST) but if your laptop (CLIENT) has poor WIFI, you're not going to achieve great numbers. The same can be said about the building you are in, reinforced concrete/steel walls? You'll get lower performance. Are there more factors involving WIFI performance? Yes, the number of WIFI routers in your neighborhood and even equipment like your refrigerator turning off/on and, hey now... do you know what frequency a microwave uses? Yep, 2400 Mhz and, as such, that can have an effect on performance. That makes WIFI a rather subjective and difficult to replicate thing to test.

It's hard to comprehend that is not a Gigabit ethernet jack but rather a WIFI 6E 6GHz link.

The numbers you see are measured in Mbit/sec, divided by eight bits, that's your performance in megabytes per second. The ASUS router is very strong with the 6G band. We max out at 942 Mbps, which makes sense as the host side is a PC connected to 1 Gigabit. 

Performance WAN-LAN

I always throw in a quick test of WAN (Internet) side performance as well. Our office is using cable Internet based on 600 Mbit/s downstream and 40 Mbit/s upstream.

As you can see, the WAN throughput is maxed out.