I have a TP-Link Archer C80 that’s advertised as a AC1900 MU-MIMO router. It doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) but they advertise Wi-Fi speeds as:
5 GHz: 1300 Mbps (802.11ac)
2.4 GHz: 600 Mbps (802.11n)
Now I have 3 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) capable devices (not Wi-Fi 6E but just 6).
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My laptop (MSI GE75 Raider 9SG) has a Killer(R) Wireless-AC 1550i Wireless Network Adapter (9560NGW) 160MHz WLAN adapter
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My Asus PN50 Mini PC has a Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz WLAN adapter
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My Xiaomi Mi 11x Pro supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
I’m not sure about MU-MIMO support but the Mi 11i specs page (another alias for the Mi 11x Pro) state that it has 2×2 MIMO，8×8 Sounding for MU-MIMO
For the laptop and Mini PC, as far as I can tell MU-MIMO is supported but there’s no additional info I could find about that.
All 3 devices connect to the Archer C80 over Wi-Fi at a maximum link speed of 867 Mbps and when I run iPerf3 tests to confirm the actual speeds I’m getting, the maximum speeds I’ve seen are around 397 Mbps (with GE75 connected to Ethernet as the iPerf3 server and Mi 11x Pro connected to Archer C80 over Wi-Fi on the 5GHz band as the iPerf3 client)
The iPerf3 command I ran on the client (Mi 11x Pro) was this:
iperf3 -c 192.168.0.100 -i 0 -t 60 -P 2
And to test for reverse connection speeds:
iperf3 -c 192.168.0.100 -i 0 -t 60 -P 2 -R
My question is this:
Is it possible to have any or all of these devices connect to Archer C80 at 1300 Mbps link speed and get iPerf3 results that reflect that?
I don’t expect to get the full 1300 Mbps speeds but somewhere close to 1000 Mbps so it’s equivalent to or slightly better than gigabit Ethernet speeds maybe.
