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• Use the Select Benchmark dropdown to choose a benchmark
• Mousing over a bar will show the lowest product price. Clicking the bar will show other prices.
• Clicking on the product description will take you to the related review.
• The following Filters are available. Click the Filter button to apply the selected filters. Click the Clear button to bring back all products.
  • Use the Bar checkboxes to filter products by bar color
  • The Company selector (shift-click to for multiple companies) filters by company
  • The Class selector (shift-click to for multiple classes) filters by product class. Select None for wired-only routers.
  • The Band selector filters by frequency band.
• Features Button: Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see product features.
• Benchmark Summary Button: Check the box to the left of one product and click the Benchmark Summary button to see all benchmark test results.
• Price Performance Button: Click the Price Performance button to see products plotted by Price vs. Performance
• Performance Table Button: (Shown on Wireless Benchmarks only.) Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see a table of all performance results.
• Performance vs. Location: (Shown on Wireless Benchmarks only.) Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see a comparison plot of wireless throughput in all test locations.
• Performance vs. Atten: (Shown on Wireless Profile Benchmarks only.) Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see a comparison plot of wireless throughput vs. signal loss (dB) for all tested attenuations.
  
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Key

• represents results using this current procedure, with an Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 test client used, unless otherwise noted
• represents results using this current procedure, with an Intel Ultimate N Wi-Fi Link 5300 test client used, unless otherwise noted
• represents results using this older test procedure, but with an Intel Ultimate N Wi-Fi Link 5300 test client.
• represents results using this older test procedure.
• represents results using the procedure described in the product review.

Use the selector to the right of the benchmark name to see individual values from the six locations.

When looking for products, start with the 2.4 GHz Up or Downlink Benchmarks to see both 802.11b/g and 2.4 GHz band 802.11n products. The 40 MHz B/W benchmarks apply only to 802.11n products.

NOTE! Only tests with the same color bars are directly comparable!

See this article for general advice on how to choose a router.

See this article for advice on how to choose a wireless router.

Description

This chart shows the throughput of 802.11 wireless devices for the frequency band, direction and mode described in the chart title.

The default Average view is calculated from throughput measurements taken at multiple locations in a residential home.