Fastest phone in October 2015 on our tester was iPhone6 http://tbb.st/1444408438129891155
Fastest tablet in October 2015 was an iPad http://tbb.st/1443867500291819555

Of course cannot tell what routers they are using unfortunately

So I had the socket installed today, given the entry point to the flat, it was quite easy to get the socket to where my existing ADSL router is connected and the installer was happy to oblige, so that's a bonus - all the usual stuff can remain wired!

I've ordered an AC3200 - a bit of a sting paying £200 for a router, but I figure that half of my life (work and personal) revolves around my internet connection so it pays to get something that'll keep up!

In reply to a post by mikehiow:

I've ordered an AC3200 - a bit of a sting paying £200 for a router, but I figure that half of my life (work and personal) revolves around my internet connection so it pays to get something that'll keep up!

Since you've already ordered and you need a device in the near future this isn't much help, but i'm looking at the Turris Omnia for my next router.

It out-classes the AC3200 (and pretty much everything that isn't an x86 PC running something like pfSense) in every way. It's being created by the non-profit in charge of the Czech domain and several open-source projects (and is described here in a talk they recently gave at the OpenWrt summit).

That's very cool!

I always used to use pfSense as a router running in an ESXi VM on my home server, I'm not sure why I stopped running that, but I haven't missed it to be honest.

These days, I just want to be able to see what's using what and be able to VPN into home, the rest should "just work"

So, my service finally went live today and the AC3200 arrived.

First things first - Wired, I max out at around 250mbps on my N66U (What the hell?!) and around 750mbps on the Hyperoptic router.

The Asus AC3200 has seen a max of well over 900mbps up and down, here's the last TBB test I did:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Wireless, I'm getting around 400mbps on my Macbook a few metres away and around 200mbps on my mobile devices.

What truly is impressive is the Wireless speeds I've been seeing on my iMac (2015 retina) 500-600mbps up and down.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Edited by mikehiow (Sat 07-Nov-15 00:59:48)

In reply to a post by mikehiow:

So, my service finally went live today and the AC3200 arrived.

First things first - Wired, I max out at around 250mbps on my N66U (What the hell?!) and around 750mbps on the Hyperoptic router.

The Asus AC3200 has seen a max of well over 900mbps up and down, here's the last TBB test I did:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Wireless, I'm getting around 400mbps on my Macbook a few metres away and around 200mbps on my mobile devices.

What truly is impressive is the Wireless speeds I've been seeing on my iMac (2015 retina) 500-600mbps up and down.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Sounds about right to me. Only the very top-end routers are going to cope with Gigabit speeds and not with stuff like VPNs, QoS enabled or even using the WiFi. All those things steal CPU cycles from the routing side.

Looking over the pfSense forums, people are building Intel i3 PCs to handle Gigabit routing with those sorts of services.

As for 802.11ac speeds. I have seen real-world speeds of 305Mbit using on a 1x1 Intel card 80Mhz channel width (433Mbit link rate) when copying files form my NAS to my laptop. So I would not be surprised to see close to 900Mbit in close range at 3x3.

Unfortunately, there are very few 3x3 devices out there. But then the point of Gigabit would be more to not ever slow any individual device below "holy [censored]" speeds, not really to achieve a Gigabit on a single device, especially not over WiFi.

I really wouldn't run VPN or QoS on a consumer router at all though, those things will drag the routing speed right down.

Have you tried using the AC3200 JUST for WiFi and the Hyperoptic router JUST for routing? You may get better speeds. If you can't get Gigabit at least wired using their router, I would be rather annoyed.

Edited by alexatkin (Sat 07-Nov-15 08:13:34)