Why are they selling 3.2GBPs capable routers in AUSTRALIA

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Routers aren't used for outbound connections. This sort of router would likely be for use with a NAS or other network streaming solutions. In that sort of setup, you'd have one computer with a ton of hard drives/storage space, and stream files across the network to other computers to use them. It's pretty common for HTPC setups and stuff, beats having to cram storage onto a system that's meant to be unobtrusive. It also would probably help for the sorts of services that let you play a game from one PC while it's running on another.
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Routers aren't used for outbound connections. This sort of router would likely be for use with a NAS or other network streaming solutions. In that sort of setup, you'd have one computer with a ton of hard drives/storage space, and stream files across the network to other computers to use them. It's pretty common for HTPC setups and stuff, beats having to cram storage onto a system that's meant to be unobtrusive. It also would probably help for the sorts of services that let you play a game from one PC while it's running on another.
 
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with that router set up it has 3 radios in it. one 2.4g for the older hardware and two 5.0g for newer and faster connections. the speed they posted would be if you could bond all three radios together. in real life you never see the max speed of the unit. (wifi side).
 
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Also keep in mind that WiFi rarely delivers more than half the claimed speed and is half-duplex so that "3.2Gbps" router will be barely able to keep up with a 1Gbps LAN. You will get even lower maximum usable effective speed if the router is setup as a hub to stream stuff between wireless devices.

As viewty said, the main purpose for that thing for most people would be streaming or copying stuff across (W)LAN.
 
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You really need to avoid these custom solutions for a while. This is not a standard and you will see incompatibility. You can accomplish the same thing by putting 2 routers on different channels. I did not see they a single user could use more than 1 radio.

802.11ac wave2 is coming...was suppose to be this year but I suspect something delayed it. This is actually a standard and it has a method to allow single users to use 160mhz of bandwidth and get these 2.6g or whatever numbers.
 
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Nothing really "custom" there: it is simply a 11ac router with dual 5GHz radios. It works exactly the same as a regular 11ac router except it can use two independent channels in the 5GHz band instead of only one.
 
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You are being overly picky here on words...you sure can't say this is a standard configuration. The main point I am making is the router manufactures are coming out with all this crazy stuff and there is a new standard coming in less than a year that will make all this obsolete. I did not look at the details of the specifications for this router but some of the other "special" routers now coming to market have proprietary feature that only work with their corresponding nic cards.

The huge problem here is the marketing departments are doing there very best to confuse consumers who think a bigger number is better no matter what. You general user does not understand that this box you can not combine the bandwidth but they will buy it because the number is bigger.

This is actually nothing new. Cisco commercial AP have had as many as 6 radios in them for many years. Except cisco never marketed this by adding the bandwidths together implying you could get these rate.

Sure if you want to use one box rather than 2 to increase your total wireless bandwidth it likely would be a good choice but it is deceptive to market for any other purpose.





 
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If you want to use wave-2 features, you need to upgrade your devices to wave-2 too, which is often far more easily said than done or simply not an option altogether.

A router with a pair of 11ac-wave1 radios gives you most of wave-2's benefits without having to upgrade any of your wave1 devices. You may call it crazy if you want but for people who already own a bunch of expensive wave1 devices (tablets, smartphones, game consoles, laptops, etc.) that cannot be upgraded to wave2, this makes more sense than a single-radio wave-2 router.
 
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