Is it possible to get honest 300 mbps on 802.11n / 2.4 GHz on MacBook Pro mid 2010?

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vk22012-08-14 11:45:22

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vk2, 2012-08-14 11:45:22

There is a Zyxel Keenetic Giga (firmware 1.x), promising MIMO 2x2 300 Mbps (at 40 Mhz), there is a MacBook Pro mid 2010 with a BCM 4331 chip .

However, it fails to connect above 144 mbps. Maybe it's fundamentally impossible and my MBP will get 300 mbps only on 5 GHz (which Kinetic doesn't support)? Or do you need to edit some drivers? Or change the country code on the router (didn't help yet)? The rest of the router settings (channels, signal strength, 802.11n only, NO TKIP, etc.) seem to have already gone over too. I ran through Q&A, did not see similar questions.

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Iliapan, 2012-08-14
@Iliapan

At 5GHz it will definitely be 300. I personally couldn’t do it differently

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Nickel3000, 2012-08-14
@Nickel3000

On Habré , an article recently ran through, where the author wrote:

A little about MIMO. For some reason, to this day, I come across formulations like 2x2 MIMO or 3x3 MIMO. Unfortunately, for 802.11n this wording is of little use, because it is also important to know the number of Spatial Streams. A 2x2 MIMO point can only support one SS, and will not go above 150Mbps. A point with 3x3 MIMO can support 2SS, limited to only 300Mbps.

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audiotrue, 2012-08-14
@audiotrue

With Zyxel Keenetic, you still won't get real speed more than ~ 140Mbps, even with famous high-speed adapters. Or do you just want the inscription "Wireless connection - 300Mbps"? I have such an inscription, but the real speed still does not exceed 100 Mbps.

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Stdit, 2012-08-14
@Stdit

It didn't work for me on MBA'10, I don't know what's the matter, maybe I was unlucky with the points, or maybe the transmitter in the laptop is weak. At 2.4, the maximum that I saw was 130. At five GHz, I saw a maximum of 243, but through the wall the speed dropped to 80-100.

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tossshik, 2012-08-14
@tossshik

Sorry for the easy offtopic, but the question is similar, maybe someone will tell you: there is exactly the same Mac and Netgear WNR3500L, which seems to be supposed to pull 300 Mbps. In practice, it turns out no more than 90 Mbps, if you're lucky, and most often the speed, both up and down, does not rise above 30 Mbps, which is somehow completely indecent. Played with all possible settings. Can it be in neighboring points (about 15 pieces are visible) or just crooked hands?