Hmmm yes that Adaptor would help the iMac and MacBook for sure.

The iMac and MacBook are both this years models, both don't have network cards fitted.
I didn't think I needed them, plus it added so much to upgrade to versions that do have the network cards.
The iPads only come wireless and again are less than a year old..

I knew wireless is always slower, just didn't know it would be so much slower when on the 900 Fibre

All they will say is that the tests show a fault on the line not far from my home, and that it would affect the speeds. Even after reminding them a Engineer has been out and said the line was fine.

While the Engineer says its full speed at the socket and to the Hub, and that the light is bright.
Light being the Fibre signal/strength I imagine.

Yes its starting to sink in why and how I'm seeing the speed I am.

Odd that they don't point that out on the Apple and BT Ads.

And yes I know Zarjaz knows his stuff, only bad thing about his replies when I'm reading the forums posts is that most of it goes over my head.

Ok so if someone can answer my last question I ll give you guys peace.

Say for example you find out that the Hub or any other routers highest wireless speed was say 400mb,
is that 400mb shared between devices or if say 2 devices are connected to the router would each device get 400mb.

Don't know if I explained that well. best I can do.

Edited by deleted (Thu 30-Sep-21 13:02:33)

Well as the BT Hub has 4 Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2 (802.11AC Wave 2) antennas it can hit a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 3.39 Gbit/s but you would need a device that supports the same wireless standard and have the same amount of antennas to hit that speed.
So it would appear the wireless devices you are testing on are the limiting factor as although they have at least two antennas I don't believe they support Wave 2 which halves the maximum throughput from 1600Mbps to 800Mbps and with that around 400Mbps real world tests sound about right.

Thanks
Dan

In reply to a post by danielhyde:

So it would appear the wireless devices you are testing on are the limiting factor as although they have at least two antennas I don't believe they support Wave 2 which halves the maximum throughput from 1600Mbps to 800Mbps and with that around 400Mbps real world tests sound about right.

If they are 2020 and 2021 MacBook and iPad devices they will all support WiFi 6 (802.11ax). If the router supported WiFi 6 would that improve the throughput?

For interest and what its worth.
Fritzbox 7530AX + Macbook M1 +ZEN 900/100

via wifi not cable

From Fast.com


I get 1. 0 Gbps

don't know how to upload pics.

Edited by westlodge (Thu 30-Sep-21 14:32:20)

Yeah that makes sense as both the router and the device support Wi-Fi 6 (802.11AX) that can achieve much better real world speeds than Wi-Fi 5.

Thanks
Dan

Ok so looks like its the hub 2 that's the prob with it not being WiFi 6.

So basically I would need a WiFi 6 Router to up the wireless speed, I will have a look at the cost and availability of them.

How about the iPhone 12 are they WiFi 4, 5, or 6?

Thanks for that.

I will have a look at the Fritzbox Thanks

Hi,
I have iphone 12 they are 802.11AX (WiFi 6)
when i did some throughput tests (no internet access) to a 802.11AX access point and I get over 700Mbps I hit around 800Mbps at a push in idea conditions but once again as others say, everything is variable, I know the channels I am using are only in use by me, but I know I can consistently hit that speed on two iphones at once with no problems

I have one of these
https://www.box.co.uk/ARCHER-AX90-TP-Link-Archer-AX9...

TP-Link AX6600 Tri-Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 Router, WiFi Speed up to 4804Mbps/5GHz+1201Mpbs/5GHZ+574Mbps/2.4GHz, 1×2.5 Gbps+4×1 Gbps LAN Ports, Ideal for Gaming Xbox/PS4/Steam&4K/8K, OneMesh(Archer AX90) AMAZON

apple state
"Wi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax) with 2x2 MIMO"