Confusion about router performance (433 or 100 Mbps).
Confusion about router performance (433 or 100 Mbps).
There are routers and switches equipped with Gigabit ports that can support wired connections up to roughly 950Mbit, though this depends on the quality of network cards installed (Intel chips usually outperform cheaper alternatives found on PC boards). AC750 models feature only 100Mbit ports due to their cost constraints, which limits both CPU power and actual performance. In my view, labeling them as AC is more of a marketing tactic rather than an accurate description. For achieving wired speeds beyond wireless, you’d need at least an AC1900 access point paired with a 3x3 MIMO client. Most devices support only 2x2 MIMO at 80Mhz channels, capping performance around 650Mbit. While higher-end units can reach 160Mhz channels or even 4x4 MIMO, few clients actually use them. Antenna placement matters a lot—I usually keep them upright for optimal results, but I sometimes adjust their angle when moving between rooms. The challenge lies in aligning antennas so MIMO works, which can be tricky if orientations don’t match.
I hate to revive an old thread but I got scammed by this too after I bought this piece of doodoo of a router. I'm on a budget with my flatmate and the sound of 750Mbps speeds meaning an average of 250 - 300Mbps in reality to our 1Gbps fibre connection would do us and our laptops, phones and smartTV well. I'm living in France where the telco provided hardware is outrageously poor and it's wifi is really poor and intermittent so a dedicated and yet cheap unit was really tempting, leaving the telco box just to distribute the internet connection and nothing else. When I saw my internet speeds limited to 90Mbps during every SpeedTest I did I knew something was up - even our Telco box when it was serving Wifi would do an awful lot better than this (closer to 400Mbps when close to it). And then looking into the telco's status and seeing that no matter the port it was connected to on the NetGear it was maxing out at 100Mbps. How is this justifiable in a time when 1Gbps LAN connections have been out for decades, cannot POSSIBLY be expensive and neither the CPU's that can handle them. I see this as a pure scam - advertise 750Mbps on the box and in reality you'll never see anything better than 100Mbps, NEVER because of the cable limit. Virtually no-one is using these to connect two or more clients on the same LAN at 750Mbps speeds (well maybe 3 people out of 10,000 and which is chopped in half anyway because of half-duplex in this two antenna case) so this is an entirely false number to advertise to the public. Most want to improve Wifi in their homes by running a box elsewhere or have a specialised unit do the job instead of their poor telco equipment. Il'l be getting a full refund tomorrow.