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How Tri-Band WiFi Improves Speed and Performance
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Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router Tri-Band WiFi Tri-band WiFi delivers 3.2 Gbps combined WiFi speeds through three dedicated WiFi bands-a 2.4 GHz band, plus two 5 GHz bands. This additional 5 GHz WiFi band allows you to double the WiFi bandwidth for dual-band devices. FASTEST 5 GHz - 1 300 Mbps FASTER 5 GHz - 2 300 Mbps FAST 2.4 GHz 600 Mbps Figure 6. Tri-band WiFi doubles the available bandwidth for dual-band devices Smart Connect intelligently selects the best WiFi band for each dual-band device to optimize connection speed and performance based on that device's speed and performance. The router automatically manages your WiFi connections, performing load balancing across the two 5 GHz radios. This additional WiFi bandwidth combined with the intelligence to segregate traffic based on WiFi speed and load balancing provides the best performance for multiple WiFi devices in the home. How Tri-Band WiFi Improves Speed and Performance Tri-band WiFi increases the available WiFi bandwidth for your network to reduce network congestion. Typically a dual-band WiFi router shares bandwidth among all connected devices that are downloading data at the same time. So if you are watching a Netflix movie on your Internet-enabled large screen TV while your kids are watching a YouTube video on a smartphone, the router shares the bandwidth across these two devices. This is particularly unfair for the faster 802.11ac devices or three-stream (3x3) 802.11n devices because their speeds are reduced to the speed of the slowest device in the network. Even one slow device can bring down the entire network speed. In this simplified example, the 5 GHz band is capable of a maximum speed of 1300 Mbps, but the actual speed could be limited by the device capability. For example, an Apple MacBook Pro with support for three streams is capable of the maximum 1300 Mbps but the Tri-Band WiFi Connections 55