Good Day,
I was having a look at RBwsAP-5Hac2nD and I have what might be a really basic question.
I see the device has 3xFast Ethernet Ports (Max 100Mbps)
But the Wifi specifications show connection speeds (300 and 433 Mbps).
I am correct to assume that If my WAN (300Mbps Fibre) is through the POE ethernet port, I should not expect internet speeds faster than 100Mbps over the WiFi?
Thanks
Interesting question.
Lets look at the device,
Test results show that in real world applications you should be able to route at around 250Mbps.
However its three ports are rated at 10/100 so not sure how they achieved those results??
As far as wifi, real world expect about 2ghz - 100Mbps throughput, and 5ghz - 145Mbps throughput.
I can see your confusion and cannot explain it at the moment.
The best explanation I can give you is that internally the router between ports and between wifi can handle traffic up to 245 Mpbs one way.
However anything going in or out one of the ports (either one session or many sessions) cannot be more than 100Mbps one way.
So you should be able to push simultaneously 200Mbps of combined up and down traffic through the ports… (but not more than 100Mbps one way).
Test results published on product pages are always results of many-to-many tests. With 3 100Mbps ethernet ports (if we neglect the wireless interface for a moment) the theoretical peak throughput is thus around 300Mbps (less overhead) which is nicely shown in test results as well.
Keep in mind that runnin any decent throughput via any of device’s radios will require decent amount of CPU cycles which will bite into routing capacity. So using this device as AP/router combo will, at the end of the day, show that 100Mbps ethernet ports are not that a narrow bottleneck after all. Using device as AP/switch is somehow different.