FAO Wifi experts: Is my throughput typical of Wireless N?

[Goose]

I got a TP Link AC1750 router the other day along with an Amazon FireTV and after doing some googling to find out if the wireless connection is strong enough to stream high bitrate HD content i found a tutorial on using iPerf.

My results below are between my wired PC and my HTC m8, which seems to perform about the same as the AFTV, connected to the 5ghz channel.

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Client connecting to 192.168.0.101, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 63.0 KByte (default)
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[  3] local 192.168.0.104 port 50799 connected with 192.168.0.101 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0- 5.0 sec  79.0 MBytes   133 Mbits/sec
[  3]  5.0-10.0 sec  78.5 MBytes   132 Mbits/sec
[  3] 10.0-15.0 sec  69.2 MBytes   116 Mbits/sec
[  3] 15.0-20.0 sec  54.8 MBytes  91.9 Mbits/sec
[  3] 20.0-25.0 sec  55.8 MBytes  93.5 Mbits/sec
[  3] 25.0-30.0 sec  66.8 MBytes   112 Mbits/sec
[  3] 30.0-35.0 sec  80.2 MBytes   135 Mbits/sec
[  3] 35.0-40.0 sec  83.4 MBytes   140 Mbits/sec
[  3] 40.0-45.0 sec  85.1 MBytes   143 Mbits/sec
[  3] 45.0-50.0 sec  84.9 MBytes   142 Mbits/sec
[  3] 50.0-55.0 sec  31.2 MBytes  52.4 Mbits/sec
[  3] 55.0-60.0 sec  34.4 MBytes  57.7 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-60.0 sec   803 MBytes   112 Mbits/sec

I'll admit i dont know squat about networking really so i dont know if 112mbit/s is good/bad/terrible/average.


Thanks

 

[Zarf]

Looks fine to me, your HTC is only single stream, so it's theoretical Max is 150Mbps, before overheads.

1080p x264 video needs less than 10Mbps.

Edit: just looked up the specs of the M8, and it actually supports wireless AC, so The theoretical Max is actually 450Mbps for single stream. Of course there are still plenty of real world factors and overheads to take into account, so don't be disappointed that you aren't nearer that.

 

[Frozennova]

112Mb/s is reasonably good for wireless but not a patch on what wired would achieve on Gigabit Lan.

It is plenty good enough to stream uncompressed HD content though.

112Mb/s equates to 14MB/s

Assuming 25GB for an uncompressed Bluray at that connection speed you'll be able to transfer the complete file in 32 minutes roughly after allowing for overheads.

Fwiw I stream with a raspberryPi which has is wired but limited to 100mbit and bluray rips stream perfectlybfine

 

[Caged]

There is no problem with IP throughput at those rates. It is more than good enough for streaming any format that you would be likely to want to stream around a house today.

 

[Goose]

Thanks guys.

What sort or speeds are possible with decent homeplugs, assuming you're electrics aren't completely shot?

 

[Caged]

Honestly not much better than what you're seeing now. The big numbers on Homeplugs are often a great deal more inflated than the numbers on Wi-Fi gear.