I upgraded to a Wifi 6* router last month. We have Gb service. I could never get more than a few hundred Mbps from any of my devices on the 5 GHz bands but with ax I can get over 800 Mbps. I only have two ax devices and their performance is startlingly different (one gets about 400 Mbps but the other gets over 800).
I do wonder how much of the issue is channel contention from my neighbors and how much is actual improvement.
* Not mentioning brands because I don't want to look like I'm shilling. Anyway I only had a couple of dozen clients to test with, and only two (before and after) routers.
Edit: I had "K" and "G" where I should have had "Mbs" -- thanks jeffbee and gratin for pointing these typos out.
You were getting a few hundred kbps per device on what kind of network? That's not even enough for CD-quality digital audio. That wouldn't have been acceptable performance even in the 1990s before 802.11.
I do wonder how much of the issue is channel contention from my neighbors and how much is actual improvement.
* Not mentioning brands because I don't want to look like I'm shilling. Anyway I only had a couple of dozen clients to test with, and only two (before and after) routers.
Edit: I had "K" and "G" where I should have had "Mbs" -- thanks jeffbee and gratin for pointing these typos out.