How a cheap router kills your home Wi-Fi speeds

A cheap router with no name, no comparison to other ‘cheap’ routers can be made.

Seeing that it is an entry-level ISP provided router an assumption can be made... I have TP-Links at home.

My ADSL modem/wireless router is an entry-level, TD-W9970, then I have an old wireless router, TL-WE1043ND, and another old wireless router, TL-MR3420, as a repeater. Not going into the details, but my throughputs are well within my expectations. Just consider the channels and any possible noise, and obvious comparison to other wireless routers.

Also comparing said 'cheap' router to an 'expensive' router. You can't state cheap without it being compared. Cheap in which precise stable?
 
Well my cheap Tenda router does 300Mbps 25m away through two walls and in the same room it does 360Mbps so cheap does not always mean bad.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Well my cheap Tenda router does 300Mbps 25m away through two walls and in the same room it does 360Mbps so cheap does not always mean bad.
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You have 300Mbit internet? Or are you referencing the number given by your OS?
 
Headline is misleading, and article proves nothing. Wi-fi bandwidth is limited by spectrum allocation, adjacent transmissions, distance from receiver, etc. Nothing to do with the cost of the router.
 
Waylander said:
You have 300Mbit internet? Or are you referencing the number given by your OS?
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Tested with my Galaxy S8, 300Mbps real world, not what it says on the box, 360Mbps in the same room as the router.
 
I read the article and it ends with speed results on his cheap router. Can't seem to find results when using a more expensive router.

Is part of the article missing maybe?
 
Soul Assassin said:
Well my cheap Tenda router does 300Mbps 25m away through two walls and in the same room it does 360Mbps so cheap does not always mean bad.
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Yeap... I tested a R275 Tenda against a R2000 "fancy" router this weekend and the Tenda won
 
Waylander said:
Of the 300Mbs sent from the phone, how many actually reach the router without being dropped because the link is saturated?
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Using PassMark’s Performance Tester on a server connected by Ethernet cable to the router and the wireless client using an Asus USB-AC56 dual band adapter it recorded 287 Mbps.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Using PassMark’s Performance Tester on a server connected by Ethernet cable to the router and the wireless client using an Asus USB-AC56 dual band adapter it recorded 287 Mbps.
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I thought we were talking about a phone?
 
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