Is anyone using the Wi-FI ac yet?

[Allthings-I]

I'm using the 5ghz speed on my 6 plus and AppleTV. The modem connects straight into the Airport TC, then I have an Airport Express extending the network. The signal strength is great. Can't say that for the upload and download speed, as I'm only on ADSL 2, at the moment. Saying that it doesn't take long to load up pages on Safari and AppleTV works just the same as when I had a faster cable connection!

iPhone 6 plus, tested with 2.4 and 5.0 ghz WiFi. No difference in speed!
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iMac Ethernet connection to modem - ADSL2. Same speed as WiFi!
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with the ISP speeds you have, even a regular N is enough for you....maybe even WiFi-G lol.

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Anyone with less than 70Mbps ISP speed package won't see much improvement by investing in a AC-WiFi Router/Access Point. Stick with your WiFi-N and if use 5GHz when possible.

and thats like 98% of the people probably.

Also rather than naming both networks (2.4GHz and 5GHz) the same, name them separately because lots of time the devices don't switch up to 5GHz and stick with 2.4GHz.

I live in a high-rise and these days everyone has WiFi so we have like 40 access points that show up when looking for WiFi (all protected), however 99% are running on 2.4GHz so my 2.4GHz barely works, I have had no choice but to stick with 5GHz which works amazingly well, 1) has less coverage area, less noise, less overlapping with other networks.

 

[Spectrum Abuser]

There isn't a reason for me to upgrade my router. It's a Belkin dualband b/g/n router with gigabit Ethernet. It'll be a long time before the local ISP bumps their network up enough to exceed that.

 

[PNutts]

I have the new Airport TC. It's not going to increase your wifi speed when using your phone. You are only going to be as fast and your isp.

Of course it will increase your wifi throughput if wifi is the choke point on your network (802.11ac offers a number of improvements to increase throughput). And people commonly buy speeds from their ISP that are beyond the capability of 802.11n.

 

[wxman2003]

Of course it will increase your wifi throughput if wifi is the choke point on your network (802.11ac offers a number of improvements to increase throughput). And people commonly buy speeds from their ISP that are beyond the capability of 802.11n.

Most people have isp speeds less that 50 Mbs, which is easily handled by most 802.11n routers. In fact, you are only as fast as your isp to the sites your are trying to reach. The speed from the isp to your house is pretty meaningless in most cases.

 

[boomhower]

Not much difference with the phone or iPad but large transfers from my MBP are drastically faster.

 

[geoff5093]

Most people have isp speeds less that 50 Mbs, which is easily handled by most 802.11n routers. In fact, you are only as fast as your isp to the sites your are trying to reach. The speed from the isp to your house is pretty meaningless in most cases.

Little fact, ISP's have faster than 50Mbps between themselves and sites

I have 175Mbps down, and from 90% of the sites I download from (Steam, Sourceforge, Apple, not-so-popular-devs, and more) I usually have a solid ~20MB/s+ speed.

 

[jsalicru]

Is anyone using the Wi-FI ac yet?

I have AT&T gigapower. My router can't keep up with the modem and typically tests at ~420/200 instead of 850/850.

On 5n I was seeing speeds in the 60/60 range

 

[PNutts]

I have the new Airport TC. It's not going to increase your wifi speed when using your phone.

Most people have isp speeds less that 50 Mbs, ... The speed from the isp to your house is pretty meaningless in most cases.

All emphasis mine. The first quote is an incorrect statement and the second quote is a number of assumptions. As I mentioned, network "speed" from endpoint to endpoint is not the sole influence on throughput. There are many improvements to the ac standard that increase throughput.

From Wikipedia:
"This is accomplished by extending the air interface concepts embraced by 802.11n: wider RF bandwidth (up to 160 MHz), more MIMO spatial streams (up to eight), downlink multi-user MIMO (up to four clients), and high-density modulation (up to 256-QAM)."