Can an AC wifi extender transfer 950mbps over Ethernet

[Parzival120]

I’m going to make this fast and simple. If I have WIFI-6 home internet capable of 950mbps and I buy an AC wifi extender will it transfer the full 950mbps through Ethernet or no. The reason I am skeptical is because wireless AC does not take full control of WIFI-6 only AX can. But I’m not sure if AC Ethernet can transfer the full speed. Can it?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What model of extender? What client? Is this wired to your main router? The max speeds of wifi really depends on the equement used, the signal strength, and the amount of interference.

 

You're probably not gonna get those speeds on a wifi to wifi extender.

[Parzival120]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What model of extender? What client? Is this wired to your main router? The max speeds of wifi really depends on the equement used, the signal strength, and the amount of interference.

 

You're probably not gonna get those speeds on a wifi to wifi extender.

The model of the extender is down below. My provider is centurylink. And my router has a feature where if you plug an Ethernet cable directly from router into a wifi extender it will spread the whole signal throughout the house and then can be received by putting another wifi extender and plugging an Ethernet cable into that one. So technically speaking yes it is directly connected to the router..

[Jarsky]

Nope. You'll never really get "Gigabit" throughput speed with most consumer gear. 

Additionally that is an AC1200....the number generally means the sum of all radios, not referring to the fastest single connection.

 

Of course your limiting factor is going to be the slowest part of your connection. Wether that be the repeater to your Router, or your Device to the repeater. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

27 minutes ago, Parzival120 said:

The model of the extender is down below. My provider is centurylink. And my router has a feature where if you plug an Ethernet cable directly from router into a wifi extender it will spread the whole signal throughout the house and then can be received by putting another wifi extender and plugging an Ethernet cable into that one. So technically speaking yes it is directly connected to the router..

Then you want an access points, not an extender, as you have a wired connection. Unifi and tp link make some good cheapish ones, or just get anouther router and run it in ap mode.

 

But your not hitting 950mbit on any ac1200 device, getting about 1/2 to 2/3s of the rated speed(in a single band) is the real world max.

[SupaKomputa]

1 hour ago, Parzival120 said:

AC Ethernet

there's no such thing as AC Ethernet, ethernet are rated in 100 or 1000 mbps its a completely different system from the wireless part.

[BiotechBen]

From an AX connection to the Xfinity router I have with gigabit speed plan, best I have ever gotten was 726mbps, and 760mbps wired, so some perspective for you....

[Alex Atkin UK]

12 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

From an AX connection to the Xfinity router I have with gigabit speed plan, best I have ever gotten was 726mbps, and 760mbps wired, so some perspective for you....

That's pretty close to what I get with my Zyxel NWA210AX Access Point and despite the client connected at 2400Mbit link rate (though I think this is a bug in the firmware).

 

It has peaked at 940Mbit but the average is definitely more around 750Mbit.  Its no faster than the clients connected at 1200Mbit which is annoying.

I seemed to gain about 100Mbit on AX vs AC WiFi both peak and average.

[BiotechBen]

2 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

That's pretty close to what I get with my Zyxel NWA210AX Access Point and despite the client connected at 2400Mbit link rate (though I think this is a bug in the firmware).

 

It has peaked at 940Mbit but the average is definitely more around 750Mbit.  Its no faster than the clients connected at 1200Mbit which is annoying.

I seemed to gain about 100Mbit on AX vs AC WiFi both peak and average.

It do be like that, and it would seem that the NICs that are in use have some optimization to go through with AX connections