How do routers/AP’s have speeds of AX/AC2000+ with gigabit Ethernet?

Question

Like the title, how do access points claim speeds of over a gigabit when they themselves are limited with a gigabit ethernet supply?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

So here’s the thing.

Those types of APs are doing MUMIMO (multi user multiple in multiple out) basically they are multiplexing the WiFi traffic to serve more clients at once.

In theory you should be able to do a layer2 transfer at the speed the router advertises. (Like if two machines are associated with the same AP doing a transfer between each other, and assuming both client machines support the speeds)

In enterprise networking, we have 2.5gig Ethernet if you want it (it’s still pretty expensive per-port)

So in reality, you could have a ax2000 ap connected to a multi gig Ethernet port with 10gig uplinks on a 10g circuit, and you would actually see those types of transfer rates especially if you’re pulling stuff down from CDNs