Hit the limits of "n" wifi?

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Hello all, pleased to say that my internet speed (bt infinity option 2) has been updated somewhat - my bt hub 5 arrived yesterday and replaced the Hub 3 and open-reach modem, very easy and all was up and running, was told that my line speed should increase sometime today and I should expect my line to be capable of receiving 69.4 Meg - a boost from the Meg I've been getting for a while now, did a speed test not long ago and the results been :
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Pretty pleased with this, however the testing for this was done via Ethernet on a laptop - when I retake the test from the laptops wi-fi/my phones wi-fi and my desktops wi-fi upstairs (using a belkin F5D8055 v2 if anyone's curious), my internet speed caps at around 45-50 Meg max (50 being the laptops wifi downstairs so relatively close to the hub and 45-48 meg on the wi-fi upstairs).
Is this just a matter of me maxing out the speed of the wi-fi adapters, my belkin is pretty old now (been using it from my old vista machine) and I know there have been a lot of decent adapters released since (such as adapters with 2 and 3 antennas etc), so would a multi antenna dongle help with getting closer to the 75 meg or would 50meg be the limit what an "n" adapter can handle and for any increase in wi-fi speed would I be safer going to the 5ghz wi-fi band?
I know what you're going to say and yes I'm actually looking into getting Ethernet run from my desktop down to the router to alleviate this but on the of chance that I can't get that sorted any recommendations on getting past 50meg on a wireless connection?

Thanks again, Doco.
 
I was thinking I was hitting the limit - but wasn't 100% sure if some of the multi-antenna adapters would help - the adapter I'm using is just a usb dongle so that's why I was curious.
I've been looking at AC (since I was told yesterday that I'd be getting the home hub 5 lol), and while I can see a lot of reviews for different AC routers, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of adapters, well nothing really that gets astounding reviews, which I'd be looking for before forking out a handsome amount of money lol, I'l have to hope I can get my desktop a wired connection :)
Thanks.
 
You are nowhere near the limits of N, but probably hitting the limits of your wireless card or access points. 802.11n can use 3x3:3 in both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands for a raw throughput per radio of 450Mbps.

What is the PHY rate that you're connected at?
 
Caged said:
You are nowhere near the limits of N, but probably hitting the limits of your wireless card or access points. 802.11n can use 3x3:3 in both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands for a raw throughput per radio of 450Mbps.

What is the PHY rate that you're connected at?
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Allegedly 130Mbps, so its time for an upgrade to my adapter lol - a good bit lower than the 450Mpbs it seems :-/
 
You need to look at both ends of the link, I can't see any information about the Home Hub 5's access point. If it's only a 300Mbps radio which is what the 4 was then there's no need to get a Wi-Fi adapter that is more advanced.
 
Your gonna struggle to take full advantage of a good infinity connection even on decent wireless gear as theres just so many variables and even neighbouring wireless networks can drag you down.

My router can do "upto" 900MBit/s wireless and I have the kit to support it and basically know what I'm doing configuration wise, etc. and struggle to get 125MBit/s with realworld speeds mostly around 50-70 other than when sitting on top of the router.
 
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I've had a 80Mbps Infinity connection going into a AirPort Extreme on the middle floor of a three storey house and 140Mbps real throughput between wireless clients and a NAS without really trying, so it's not that difficult.
 
Caged said:
I've had a 80Mbps Infinity connection going into a AirPort Extreme on the middle floor of a three storey house and 140Mbps real throughput between wireless clients and a NAS without really trying, so it's not that difficult.
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There are just way too many factors to say "its not that difficult" especially environment factors outside of the user's control, some people might manage it fine others definitely won't.
 
Agreed that every area is different, but getting 80Mbps on decent gear shouldn't ever be a challenge if you're using 5GHz kit. If 5GHz is suffering that badly then upgrading to first generation 802.11ac won't solve the problem.
 
Grab a copy of inSSIDer or similiar and see what if any networks your sharing with on the same channels could be as simple as changing channels or similiar tweaks to get decent speeds.
 
So downloaded inSSIDer, results show two wifi networks, my own bt network and a secondary bt network (not mine), along with this though are two bt-wifi-Fon networks (one will be mine and the other will be the neighbours), when I select my network on the top right the box with the wifi details says I'm on channel 1 with a link score of 65, then :

Co-channels 4
Overlapping channels 0
Signal changes from -59 to -63 dBm
Max rate is 144

This is all under the 2.4 GHz networks with 0 activity under the 5GHz band.

To Bledd: the kitten on the far right (from our perspective) of the second photograph actually resembles my cat XD
 
My AC combo (router and bridge) averages 250-300 Mbps.

That's on different floors, with at least 3 solid brick walls and approx 12m.
 
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