Optimizing a WiFi Network
Optimizing a WiFi Network
This isn't strictly "homelab" related, but I'm not sure if there's a better community to post it.
I'm curious what kind of real-world speeds everyone is getting over their wireless network. I was testing tonight, and I'm getting a max of 250Mbit down/up on my laptop. I have 4 Unifi APs, each set to 802.11ac/80Mhz, and my laptop supports 2x2 MIMO. Testing on my phone (Galaxy S23) gives basically the exact same result.
The radio spectrum around me is ideal for WiFi; on 5Ghz, there is no AP in close enough range for me to detect. With an 80Mhz channel width, I can space all 4 of my APs so that there's no interference (using a non-DFS channel for testing, btw).
Am I wasting my time trying to chase higher speeds with my current setup? What kind of speeds are you getting on your WiFi network?
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I get about 350-400 both ways which AFAIK is what my Unifi AC-Lite tops at since it's WiFi 5 and it's only got 2 antennas and tops at 80MHz channels. I get about 200-250 on my phone (1+8T) which I think is single stream.
Everything indicates me that's as best as it can be with the set of hardware I have. Signal is solid, latency is solid.
You'll need 802.11ax and/or more MIMO streams to get higher speeds, and/or 160MHz/320MHz channels.