Like the title, how do access points claim speeds of over a gigabit when they themselves are limited with a gigabit ethernet supply?
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Those speeds do not necessarily mean that they alone can fully use all that speed, but that they can be part of a network that runs at that speed. All communication that happens on that channel uses time on that channel, so by communicating faster on the wireless than on your ethernet line, you leave some time for other devices to do their own communication. Or even just for communication in the other direction: on ethernet, both sides can talk at the same time, on wifi, they need to take turns.
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