[aklug] Re: New NETGEAR R6300v2 AC 1750 Router

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jeremy Austin wrote:

> For Arthur looking at 3x3 clients, interesting benchmarks:
> http://dl.ubnt.com/press/Tolly213122UbiquitiUniFiWirelessAPPerformance.pdf

Ubiquiti wasn't even on my RADAR when I was researching my purchase. One
study that helped seal the deal for me was:

   http://ccent.syr.edu/PDF/CCENT_3-stream_eval.pdf

The fatal flaw in both of our studies is that they're both "sponsored" by
the winner... go figure. ;-) Reviews of Ruckus in some trade mags, though,
seemed to favor Ruckus, so I took the leap.

I would also caution that all of these "benchmarks" have a caveat for all
the vendors: firmware revisions makes a huge difference. The Ubiquiti
study, for instance, is seven revs down, and there were major performance
and stability changes made over that time. I'd be willing to bet that's
probably true for all of the vendors. Software makes a big difference.

> Couldn't find anything immediately on, say, Apple Airport (the new 802.11ac
> 'minitower') vs. Ruckus.
>
> From benchmarks I've seen in the past, for instance, the Airports have
> performed well when supporting large numbers of Apple devices. (Duh.) I
> have a few, but most of my APs are 802.11n Unifi with an average of 20
> clients each. No problems so far.
>
> To support what Arthur was saying about Time Machine, I just checked an
> iMac. Averaged over a week, it has transferred nearly a terabyte a day,
> which seems? wrong. Up+down.

Egads! That is downright horrific.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Wed Oct 2 13:46:33 2013