Load Balancing - NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 AC3200 User Manual

Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router
having two lanes in the wider road instead of one. The router automatically uses Smart
Connect to allocate the fastest devices to the fast lane .
5 GHz WiFi Band
iPhone iPad iPhone
300 Mbps ÷ 3
150 Mbps ÷ 3 150 Mbps ÷ 3
5 GHz
Faster
Internet
5 GHz
Fastest
Nighthawk X6
Total bandwidth: 1500 Mbps
(150 + 300 + 150)÷ 3 + (1300 + 1300) ÷ 2
MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro
300 Mbps ÷ 2 1300 Mbps ÷ 2
Greater than 2x the performance of other routers
Figure 8. A tri-band network has two dedicated 5 GHz bands
In this tri-band network, the first 5 GHz band has a speed of 200 Mbps, and the second 5
GHz band has a speed of 1,300 Mbps.
The slower and faster devices are separated in different WiFi connections to ensure that you
get the best speed on each device. So in the previous figure, all the three mobile devices are
on one 5 GHz band with a combined maximum speed of 200 Mbps and the other 5 GHz WiFi
band is used for the faster 802.11ac devices with a combined maximum speed of 1300 Mbps.
Effectively both slower and faster devices can run faster and the overall network speed
increases by more than two times, from 640 Mbps to 1500 Mbps.

Load Balancing

The router uses load balancing to distribute WiFi connections among all three WiFi bands, to
ensure that both the WiFi bands are utilized. Load balancing avoids overloading a single
5 GHz band and ensures that both the WiFi bands are utilized and device connections are
spread across the two bands.
Tri-Band WiFi Connections
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