But this time, uplink doesn’t stay at the high level, with the result that total throughput suffers and is held to only 579 Mbps vs. You can see the delayed throughput boost characteristic in the simultaneous up/downlink test below. I also am at a loss to explain the 20 second period at the start of the run where the uplink throughput sits down around 250 Mbps. I don’t know what is causing the high downlink variation, since there was no wireless traffic running during the test. The first plot below is a combination of the two unidirectional tests. I’ve started to generate two IxChariot plots for routing, since the one that combines unidirectional WAN > LAN, LAN > WAN and simultaneous up/down gets too muddled. At least Apple didn’t skimp on simultaneous connection handling, since the AExAC hit the test limit at 32,360 sessions. The best AC1750 class routers like the D-Link DIR-868L and ASUS RT-AC66U support routing throughput in the 800+ Mbps range. But when you compare against other Broadcom-powered AC1750 class routers, the results are surprisingly low at only 325 Mbps down and 685 Mbps up. The results show a moderate improvement vs. The router comes defaulted to the same SSID for both bands, but you can set a different one for 5 GHz. For advanced features, you won’t find anything in the way of parental controls, web filtering or bandwidth management / QoS. The key omissions are the lack of support for 40 MHz bandwidth in the 2.4 GHz band, guest network in 2.4 GHz only, no UPnP support and no WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) support. I didn’t copy over the missing feature list from the Gen 5 review, but it remains the same.
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