Tri Band WiFi as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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992 words · ~4 min read
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so you're shopping for a wireless router and they all seem to be more or less the
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same you're getting kind of bored and just going to grab the one with the prettiest box and then wao look at that
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wireless 3200 are you freaking kidding over 3 gab
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Wi-Fi speed with triband technology time
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to throw out all your wired devices that are limited to wussy 1 gbit connections
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right no and I'll explain why but first
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let's get our terminology straight A wireless router is a bit of a misnomer
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but the term is so universally used that we're kind of stuck with it inside that
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box is actually three discrete components Each of which can usually be
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turned off if you want to use a standalone Appliance for that
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functionality instead so the first one is a router the traffic controller
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between the home network all of your devices are connected to and all the
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other networks out there on the internet number two is a network switch the
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traffic controller between all of your devices and number three is a wireless
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access point or AP a radio with antennas
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that is sort of like a mini cell tower in your house that communicates with all
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your wireless standard compliant devices over the approved frequencies usually in
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the 2.4 and 5 GHz ranges all right so
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with that out of the way the important piece of the puzzle for this discussion
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is the access point how can it use the same Wireless AC standard that we've
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already had for a couple of years and achiev so much more than than the 1900
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megabit Max that we've seen advertised on dualband wireless APS up until now
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well a big part of the problem actually lies in the marketing for these devices
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a dualband ac1 1900 AP never actually
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achieves a 1900 megabit link speed to anything literally never that's an
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aggregated value for both the wireless AC 1300 mbit 5 GHz connection and the
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wireless N600 mbit 2.4 GHz connection
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when they're being used concurrently but an individual client like your phone or
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computer would not be designed to utilize the two at the same time so what
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would be the point of Tri band or even dual band for that matter if true max
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connection speeds are still stuck at 1300 megabit think of it like adding
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more Lanes to the highway rather than increasing the speed limit more bands or
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radios means smoother operation with a greater number of connected devices
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because Wi-Fi is a polite communication protocol every other device in a given
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frequency has to wait its turn while another one is talking so if you move
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some of your devices onto one frequency and others onto a completely separate
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nonoverlapping frequency you're dramatically improving the overall
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amount of data you can throw through the air more bands also helps address
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overall Wi-Fi slowdowns that occur when a legacy or slower client connects to
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the network using band steering technology and two separate 5 GHz radios
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each supporting three spatial streams the AP can sort the devices connected to
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it according to their capability with all the slow clients on one radio and
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going and being scrub land on that radio by themselves and the faster ones on
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another improving performance for your shiny new gadgets sounds cool lus but if
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adding more bands or discrete radios doesn't increase point-to-point
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connection speed then how can we ever replace our wires well the way it's been
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done up until now has been to utilize more and more of the available Wireless
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Spectrum per radio by transmitting and receiving on more frequencies
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concurrently like a wireless 802.11 AC
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compliant device must support at least two antennas operating together for
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example but there are some issues with that number one is that more spatial
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streams increases power consumption and
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heat output which is a big deal on the client side
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where you might have a phone or a laptop and if your clients don't support the
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faster link speed then you'll get no benefit anyway and another is that with
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the limited number of 5 GHz frequencies or channels available creating new link
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speed standards that can only be achieved by sprawling across more and
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more of the available Spectrum will result in interference from the
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overlapping networks of your neighbors very soon just like we already have with
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