Your 100/6 connection indicates the maximum speeds. Do a speed test at 3 in the morning to see the difference. My TimeWarner connection claims 30/5, but I often get only 5/1 during busy times of the day.
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Video Compares iPhone 6 Plus 802.11ac Wi-Fi Speeds to 802.11n iPhone 5s Speeds
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Your 100/6 connection indicates the maximum speeds. Do a speed test at 3 in the morning to see the difference. My TimeWarner connection claims 30/5, but I often get only 5/1 during busy times of the day.
But how fast? This is comparing the speeds so we can see, we now know that the new iPhones' wifi are approximately 2.75 times faster than the 5s.
Is your basis for this internet connectivity? Because those results are going to be all kinds of inconsistant.
I haven't seen those speed increases. In fact, my iPhone 6 can't seem to hold on to a WiFi connection. I'm currently at home right next to my AirPort router, and the phone can't find a WiFi signal. And this is since updating to 8.0.2.
That tests the ISPs connection speed. In most cases even a wireless n router will be faster than that. Local file transfer is about the only way to test this, and Ookla cant help there.
Untrue.
My 6 can hold onto and make use of a signal in places where my 5 would struggle and lose connection. This happens at both home and work.
Not necessarily true for some... For me it really speeds up backups onto my TimeCapsule. Also, I have a 100 mbps internet connection. When I connect to my ac router I regularly get speeds ~120 mbps, but all my n devices stay under 100 mbps. I live in Utah and Google Fiber is coming in a bit so I can take serious advantage of it (hence why Comcast is giving me 100 mbps). Ever since Google Fiber announced they were coming Comcast starting bumping up speeds and now we have two other providers starting to offer gigabit internet (CenturyLink and a local fiber ISP). It won't take long before many people can start to really take advantage of ac.
If you are interested, they've actually done this before with the 4s and the 5. Note that in this test (which looks like it has the same app) it was done with a local wired server, which means ISP wouldn't be a factor. Oh, and both tests were done at different times.
bendgate BS finally we have something positive.
I wish that was true in regards to the internet connection. But looking at way things are now with IPSs, I am not holding my breath to get gigabit connection anytime soon, let alone 100mbps for that matter. I am stuck at 60/4. Yeah 4mbps up. it's ridiculous.
True, but my ISP is my biggest limiting factor. I do very little data within my house. Besides, I have my iMac, Airport Time Capsule, Extreme, Express, and Apple TV all connected using Ethernet cable.
Unless you want to stream 4K within your own home network, I think 4K streaming via internet isn't really a thing with current state of internet connection for everyone who do not have Google Fiber. (I guess you can stream few of those 4K YouTube videos, but I don't think they are really all that high bitrate content.)
I agree with this video. My home connection is 50 Mb download and 5 Mb upload. I see full speed on my iPhone 6 plus in most parts of my house. My iPhone 5s had trouble getting up to full speed unless I was right next my time capsule.
I'm no network expert, but my iPhone 6 gets about 129Mbps on my Netgear N router, which I think I'm reading right. I use the App Wi-Fi Sweetspot to determine the best speeds around the house. Why can't the iPhone 5s get more than 100Mbps on that video?
That's if you don't have any wifi problems with your iphone 6 with ios8 
Still getting less than 5Mb on my iphone 6 (everything is fine on the internet part)
Still getting less than 5Mb on my iphone 6 (everything is fine on the internet part) on a "5 screen..........
If you had bothered to look at the thread where my post originated from I was referring to 802.11ac vs. 802.11n. It had nothing to do with playing 4K on a 5" screen.
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Well Netflix offers 4K streaming (I've heard it's not great) and in this day and age more people are using wifi connections rather than direct connections.
I would like to have seen them do a speed test at a greater distance than 1.5m. Most users use their phones much farther away than that.
