I got 99 problems but my WiFi ain't one

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Dramatic_Hammer

I have had 900Mbps down, 300 up fttp installed today and now have to worry about the wifi being a bottleneck.

We have a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LITE as our access point and I'm getting ~195Mbps on upload and download when I speed test on my phone and pc (using a TP-Link AC1900 wifi dongle). If I connect directly to the router wifi network and stand next to it I get ~800Mbps down, which suggests the access point is a bottleneck.

How does wifi even work with multiple streams? Is it limit per device (not so bad as we could have 3-4 devices with high-ish demand at the same time) or a total (a waste of 900Mbps if it can only ever supply 200)?

How can I solve this (other than wiring everything in)?

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yafe in reply to @Dramatic_Hammer

You might be able to get a bit more out of it by widening the channel width on the radio settings.

Bigger the number effectively allows more data at the expense of a bigger risk for interference/reduced range.

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Dramatic_Hammer in reply to @yafe

I've had a play with the Ubiquiti app but the AP appears to be stuck and won't change channel or width. Getting some very strange behaviour - speed test maxing out at 230Mbps but happily downloading at 30MBps via torrents.

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