[GTALUG] router upgrade; cheap WRT1200ac

[Dave Cramer]

There was one review on this router that mentioned that the radio was not
very good. Is this typical or just someone's bad experience ?

Dave Cramer

On 21 July 2017 at 07:20, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:15:10PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > Where 'would' you notice the difference?
>
> Well a client that supported 3 streams would be able to get a faster
> connection than the typical 2 or 1 stream clients.
>
> Of course it is possible that in some cases the 4 antenna system would get
> a better connection to a client and hence slightly faster just due to the
> position the antennas happen to be in.  I have no idea how likely that is.
>
> Now a MU-MIMO router could split the streams to different clients at
> the same time as far as I understand it, but that is not a feature of
> these routers.  Also MU-MIMO only works if the client devices also
> support the protocol, and almost none do yet.
>
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