azazel1024
Senior member
I had a general question on wireless networking. A scenario I have never personally run in to is, what happens when you have multiple clients connecting to an AP at high throughput where the AP has more radios/streams than any individual client has?
For example I connect a 300Mbps 2:2 client and a 150Mbps 1:1 client to a 450Mbps 3:3 AP. Am I likely to see closer to the AP's maximum throughput? Or am I likely to see closer to the 2:2 clients maximum throughput split between the two clients?
I know there will be some amount of interference between the two devices as they are operating in the same channels as each other, but is it possible for the router to use all 3 streams split between the clients resonable well? Or is there still going to be plenty of halt and wait packets going out from the AP to the clients sharing time?
So, to sum it up, with a 3:3 router with 2:2 and 1:1 (or multiple 1:1) clients behave more like a 3:3 router for total bandwidth/throughput, or will it behave more like the fastest client in terms of total throughput?
For example I connect a 300Mbps 2:2 client and a 150Mbps 1:1 client to a 450Mbps 3:3 AP. Am I likely to see closer to the AP's maximum throughput? Or am I likely to see closer to the 2:2 clients maximum throughput split between the two clients?
I know there will be some amount of interference between the two devices as they are operating in the same channels as each other, but is it possible for the router to use all 3 streams split between the clients resonable well? Or is there still going to be plenty of halt and wait packets going out from the AP to the clients sharing time?
So, to sum it up, with a 3:3 router with 2:2 and 1:1 (or multiple 1:1) clients behave more like a 3:3 router for total bandwidth/throughput, or will it behave more like the fastest client in terms of total throughput?
