Sky Siro 1gb

phill106

Just got it in the other day, after having no broadband for a few weeks.
Its grand, but I would have thought i would get faster speeds on wifi.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/9594415885
Checked via lan, and i get a very respectable 800mbps down, while 5 cm from the router i get closer to 300mbps on wifi.
Checked my wifi card, supports 5ghz, and im connected on it.

Sky modem just not that great perhaps?
its the sr200 router.

I didnt see any other sky siro threads, so apologies if i missed an earlier one.

ED E

Somewhat expected. Unless you've a very recent "Wifi6" client and AP you'll be in the 300-500Mb ballpark.

If you're primarily a wifi user you just bought a 50m swimming pool for your 10m patio.

phill106

ED E wrote: »

Somewhat expected. Unless you've a very recent "Wifi6" client and AP you'll be in the 300-500Mb ballpark.

If you're primarily a wifi user you just bought a 50m swimming pool for your 10m patio.

I think it may be the modem more than the client, checked the card in my machine and it supports up to 867mbps.

The maximum speed of the http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/dual-band-wireless-ac-8260-brief-v2.pdf Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 is 867 Mbps, and it is enabled by 2x2 802.11 ac implementations.
So the pool should be 40m in a 50m patio
Instead i seem to have a plastic water butte on top of a pallet!

dam099

phill106 wrote: »

I think it may be the modem more than the client, checked the card in my machine and it supports up to 867mbps.

The maximum speed of the http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/dual-band-wireless-ac-8260-brief-v2.pdf Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 is 867 Mbps, and it is enabled by 2x2 802.11 ac implementations.
So the pool should be 40m in a 50m patio
Instead i seem to have a plastic water butte on top of a pallet!

Is that Sky router AC or just N?

Either way the 867 on the spec sheet is usually a theoretical maximum link speed, real world throughput will be a good bit less than that. If only wireless N you might eke out a bit more performance with an AC router but probably only 400-500 if you are lucky and in the same room.

ED E

phill106 wrote: »

I think it may be the modem more than the client, checked the card in my machine and it supports up to 867mbps.

The maximum speed of the http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/dual-band-wireless-ac-8260-brief-v2.pdf Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 is 867 Mbps, and it is enabled by 2x2 802.11 ac implementations.
So the pool should be 40m in a 50m patio
Instead i seem to have a plastic water butte on top of a pallet!

Yeah, you will never get 860Mb on that card. Like the speedo on a punto going up to 240. Its a nice idea, not a real figure.

Type 2.4 GHz band[c] Mbit/s 2.4 GHz band config [all 40 MHz] 5 GHz band Mbit/s 5 GHz band config [all 80 MHz]
AC450[17] - - 433 1 stream @ MCS 9
AC600 150 1 stream @ MCS 7 433 1 stream @ MCS 9
AC750 300 2 streams @ MCS 7 433 1 stream @ MCS 9
AC1000 300 2 streams @ MCS 7 650 2 streams @ MCS 7
AC1200 300 2 streams @ MCS 7 867 2 streams @ MCS 9
AC1300 400 2 streams @ 256-QAM 867 2 streams @ MCS 9
AC1300[18] - - 1,300 3 streams @ MCS 9
AC1350[19] 450 3 streams @ MCS 7 867 2 streams @ MCS 9
AC1450 450 3 streams @ MCS 7 975 3 streams @ MCS 7
AC1600 300 2 streams @ MCS 7 1,300 3 streams @ MCS 9
AC1700 800 4 streams @ 256-QAM 867 2 streams @ MCS 9
AC1750 450 3 streams @ MCS 7 1,300 3 streams @ MCS 9
AC1900 600[d] 3 streams @ 256-QAM 1,300 3 streams @ MCS 9
AC2100 800 4 streams @ 256-QAM 1,300 3 streams @ MCS 9
AC2200 450 3 streams @ MCS 7 1,733 4 streams @ MCS 9
AC2300 600 4 streams @ MCS 7 1,625 3 streams @ 1024-QAM
AC2400 600 4 streams @ MCS 7 1,733 4 streams @ MCS 9
AC2600 800[d] 4 streams @ 256-QAM 1,733 4 streams @ MCS 9
AC2900 750[e] 3 streams @ 1024-QAM 2,167 4 streams @ 1024-QAM
AC3000 450 3 streams @ MCS 7 1,300 + 1,300 3 streams @ MCS 9 x 2
AC3150 1000[e] 4 streams @ 1024-QAM 2,167 4 streams @ 1024-QAM
AC3200 600[d] 3 streams @ 256-QAM 1,300 + 1,300[f] 3 streams @ MCS 9 x 2
AC5000 600 4 streams @ MCS 7 2,167 + 2,167 4 streams @ 1024-QAM x 2
AC5300[22] 1000[e] 4 streams @ 1024-QAM 2,167 + 2,167 4 streams @ 1024-QAM x 2


"Launch Date Q2'15"

That client is nowhere near gig wifi. Might do a bit better with a high end AP but will never do gig. You'd need something more like an Intel Gigabit 11100 VR (Labelled as up to 4700Mb) and a similarly powerful AP to hit gig wireless.