{"id":262373,"date":"2018-06-01T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T07:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=262373"},"modified":"2018-06-01T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T07:06:43","slug":"if-you-have-200mbps-fibre-get-a-great-router-and-use-5ghz-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/262373-if-you-have-200mbps-fibre-get-a-great-router-and-use-5ghz-wi-fi.html","title":{"rendered":"If you have 200Mbps fibre, get a great router and use 5GHz Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Openserve launched its 200Mbps fibre<\/strong><\/a> wholesale product to Internet service providers in April 2018.<\/p>\n

It offers consumers a peak download speed of 200Mbps and a peak upload speed of 100Mbps \u2013 doubling the previous highest speeds of 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up from the company.<\/p>\n

As a MyBroadband journalist, it is a dismissible offence not to get the highest broadband speed you can at home, so I upgraded to 200Mbps as soon as my ISP allowed it.<\/p>\n

After I received confirmation from my ISP that my line had been upgraded, however, there was a problem. My download speeds were the same as with my 100Mbps fibre line.<\/p>\n

After a few tests it became apparent that the bottleneck was not in the line, but rather my router and its Wi-Fi connection.<\/p>\n

New router<\/h3>\n

The low-end router which I was using had 10\/100 Ethernet ports, which means it could only support speeds of up to 100Mbps over a cable.<\/p>\n

Its Wi-Fi could also not support downlink speeds higher than 100Mbps, but upload speeds did exceed 50Mbps.<\/p>\n

To remove this bandwidth bottleneck, I invested in an ASUS RT-AC88U dual-band gigabit Wi-Fi gaming router with MU-MIMO (multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output technology).<\/p>\n

It was worth it.<\/p>\n

My peak download speed shot up to over 190Mbps over Wi-Fi, and my upload speed was around 90Mbps.<\/p>\n

There was one caveat – I had to use 5GHz Wi-Fi to experience the peak speeds.<\/p>\n

I tested the service over 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, and with 2.4GHz it was not possible to achieve speeds of higher than 100Mbps on my end devices.<\/p>\n

So, if you upgrade to Openserve\u2019s 200Mbps fibre service, buy a great router and use 5GHz Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n

You may just waste your money, otherwise.<\/p>\n

New router performance<\/h3>\n

Speed tests using my new router are shown below.<\/p>\n

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2.4GHz Wi-Fi Speed Test<\/h3>\n

\"2.4GHz<\/a><\/p>\n

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5GHz Wi-Fi Speed Test<\/h3>\n

\"5GHz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ethernet Speed Test<\/h3>\n

\"Ethernet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0Get yourself a great Wi-Fi router \u2013 It is worth it<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To enjoy the benefits of Openserve\u2019s new 200Mbps fibre, you should invest in a high-end router.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":262377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[51199,3012,35,33386],"class_list":["post-262373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-asus-rt-ac88u","tag-fibre-to-the-home","tag-headline","tag-openserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262519,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262373\/revisions\/262519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}