Question about AC on Archer c2.

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leandronb

leandronb

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Hi guys.
I am deciding if i should buy a TPLINK archer c2, but i read that i only have two streams, one for 2,4ghz and other for 5ghz.
i have two phones that supports AC protocol and other 3 that only supports N but supports 5ghz.
So, if i connect all these phones in the 5ghz band, the router will be limited by the N devices?
Or my phone can still have the full 433mb AC bandwidth and only other phones will be limited by 150mb N bandwidth?
 
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I will assume you are not asking about something called MU-MIMO that the very newest 802.11a routers have. It is a huge topic and most equipment does not yet support it.

What the router will do is quickly switch between the different encoding methods as it talks to the different end device. Each device will talk using its optimum data encoding. Since it is not talking to all devices at the exact same instant it tends to work ok. This is part of the reason your wifi speed degrade as you add more and more devices. There are slight delays as it switches between the devices.

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I will assume you are not asking about something called MU-MIMO that the very newest 802.11a routers have. It is a huge topic and most equipment does not yet support it.

What the router will do is quickly switch between the different encoding methods as it talks to the different end device. Each device will talk using its optimum data encoding. Since it is not talking to all devices at the exact same instant it tends to work ok. This is part of the reason your wifi speed degrade as you add more and more devices. There are slight delays as it switches between the devices.

 
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