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Video Compares iPhone 6 Plus 802.11ac Wi-Fi Speeds to 802.11n iPhone 5s Speeds

I have an older Apple Base station extreme and I have 50 mbps down and 30 up, and I'm getting full speeds on my iPhone 6 Plus and my wife iPhone 6 using speedtest.net, my iPhone 5 was a little under half that speed!

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Wake me up when 100Mbps is the new standard economy cable internet speed we get (which is currently 25Mbps for most users).

I have the blast package and it's still only 100Mbps.
 
All I know is that I upgraded to an AirPort Extreme AC system at the same time as getting my iPhone 6 Plus and sending videos to the Apple TV is a dream. Sure the Apple TV doesn't yet support AC wireless, but the beamforming and everything else really helps. I was able to take my iPhone 6 Plus across the street and halfway through the park before the signal to my home WiFi cut out. My AirPort Extreme N system could barely manage to connect to devices at the fringe of the house or on the front porch. It's interesting how beamforming works. Once it lost the signal, it didn't pick the signal back up until I got to the street in front of my house because it has to "lock on" to it.

That all being said, I'm really looking forward to the day when we can just subscribe to pCell and get unlimited fiber-speed internet to our devices wherever we go.
 
I would love to see some real world examples of ac in action. If it significantly improved the speed of itunes wifi sync then I would consider upgrading my router, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were other factors that limit the speed of iTunes wifi sync.
 
I did a similar test when i first got my iPhone 6, even bought the new airport extreme router to get 802.11ac speeds. I was really impressed with it. I think what most people are forgetting is that this is LAN speed not internet speed.

on old airport express - 7.59 Mbps
on new airport extreme - 85.94 Mbps

I can now stream my Plex collection to multiple devices without hiccups. That's a win for me!

For those interested found this app called Speedy Net that did the job, you have to buy the mac version and iOS version though:

http://mauriciosantos.net/speedy-net.html
 
HenryDJP said:
Well Netflix offers 4K streaming (I've heard it's not great)
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Yeah they have hard time maintaining HD content as is because of ISPs being unfair, 4K streaming isn't something realistic anytime soon. 4K stream is rather pointless if you have to stream them in lower bitrate due to connection and high bitrate stream requires a TON of bandwidth that most people do not have access to, wireless AC or not. I'd say we need better ISP first.
 
YouTube needs a new feature where people vote on whether the video is worth turning your speakers on / unmuting your device, and the poll results show on the video's cover screenshot.
 
Sadly it doesn't matter when your only service provider choice caps speeds at like 10Mbps.
 
JHankwitz said:
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.
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Um, yeah. But I’m just pointing out that Speedtest doesn’t usually have anything to do with the wifi on your device since the ISP is, as you pointed out, where the bottleneck usually is. And that bottleneck is usually below 100 mb/s, meaning your results would be the same on n or ac.
 
Yesss!!! Finally, I can connect to my router at over 250Mb/s!

Of course, that is of limited usefulness considering my router connects to the Internet at 1.5Mb/s...

Unbelievable that I can live in a suburban area in one of the richest countries in the world, and not get ADSL2.
 
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diddl14 said:
Want a 4" 6.
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It's available since last year...called 5S.

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Viddrumr32 said:
What I'm curious about is how come my old iPhone 5 is faster on N networks than my 6 Plus? At work the 5 runs about 85-90mbps both ways while my 6 Plus maxes around 35mbps down and anywhere from 45-90mbps up. I'm hoping it's something to do with the speedtest app not being updated yet for iOS 8 but I do wonder considering both phones are on iOS 8.0.2
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It's a browser apps.
 
Jakewilk said:
I guess ac WiFi is a bigger deal than I figured
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No it's really not. At further distances from the router it makes so little difference. Wireless AC on small devices like the iPhone is just.. well.. I kind of think it's nonsense until they can improve the antenna design on these devices to get enough signal to make the higher throughput worth it.

Take that from someone with several new iPhone 6 devices, and a 2013 Time Capsule.

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Dionte said:
Will that just test my internet speed or transfer over wifi too?
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Ookla isn't what you want. You want "Wifi Sweetspots". App store.
 
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I'd love to test my wifi speed at home. I can't though because Apple still hasn't fixed the wifi issue I, and others, are having.
 
diddl14 said:
Want a 4" 6.
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I hear that. ...I saw a video comparing the relative speeds of all iPhones, and the 5s wasn't that much slower than the 6, so I bought that, because the screen size is more important than marginally faster internals.
 
Wifi calling also works on the iPhone 5c and 5s in iOS 8. The 5c is almost identical to the 5 and wifi calling does not work on the 5, so it looks like apple specifically added code to test if it's an iPhone 5 and disabled wifi calling.
 
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