rhodos
Prominent Member
Hello, thanks for your thoughts in advance and apologies likewise if this is an easy find.
Having lived with a flaky home network these last 10 years I've taken the last few days to sort out a few issues...all patch cables replaced, all pins checked (simple network tester) and set up an iperf3 server on my main gaming PC to test it out.
Its a simple home network with one main router and then 4 access points / switches around the house all coming back through a 1G switch to the main router via 5e rated cable which was put in 12 years ago with a rewire.
The above tweaks have addressed some <100Mbps readings and every point now gives a solid 950+ Mbps to the iperf server over ethernet
So I've moved on to the wifi access points. I expected to see throughput at about 50% of the Tx connection but I am seeing it at 25%, e.g. I have a 866Mbps Tx from this macbookpro I am on now and the iperf3 result is 260Mbps, and on the very same laptop if I switch to a wired connection via a USB C to 1G Ethernet adapter I get 950 Mbps.
The access point is literally 0.5M (50cm) away from the laptop. And of course the access point has a 1G port back to the main switch (hence the 950Mbps on wired).
Is that typical, i.e. throughput about 25% of Tx rate on wifi?
Having lived with a flaky home network these last 10 years I've taken the last few days to sort out a few issues...all patch cables replaced, all pins checked (simple network tester) and set up an iperf3 server on my main gaming PC to test it out.
Its a simple home network with one main router and then 4 access points / switches around the house all coming back through a 1G switch to the main router via 5e rated cable which was put in 12 years ago with a rewire.
The above tweaks have addressed some <100Mbps readings and every point now gives a solid 950+ Mbps to the iperf server over ethernet
So I've moved on to the wifi access points. I expected to see throughput at about 50% of the Tx connection but I am seeing it at 25%, e.g. I have a 866Mbps Tx from this macbookpro I am on now and the iperf3 result is 260Mbps, and on the very same laptop if I switch to a wired connection via a USB C to 1G Ethernet adapter I get 950 Mbps.
The access point is literally 0.5M (50cm) away from the laptop. And of course the access point has a 1G port back to the main switch (hence the 950Mbps on wired).
Is that typical, i.e. throughput about 25% of Tx rate on wifi?