Wireless Switch?

[Scruff]

Wireless AC has been available for some time now and theoretical maximum 1.3gbps. That is the router that I use as mentioned earlier in the thread.

[darrylmg]

Wireless AC has been available for some time now and theoretical maximum 1.3gbps. That is the router that I use as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Sounds interesting.
Do you need a compatible AC compliant wifi card to get those speeds?
Using your router as a repeater halves the bandwidth, but with those kinds of speeds it would still be quicker than a regular N router.

[b0redom]

Don't forget that a wireless network is not able to be switched, so you'll get a maximum throughput of total bandwidth/devices. ie If you connect at 56Mbps and you have 5 devices all pulling stuff down, each will get a max of ~11Mbps.

Modern wired networking devices are switched, so each device only sees the packets which are destined for it. Obviously there is no way of doing that with a wireless hub.

[Scruff]

You will need a wireless chipset to take into account the latest 802.ac standard.

802.11ac vs 802.11n - What

Insofar as the wireless switching, the ASUS router/switch that I have has QoS in the Merlin Firmware which you can enable. I would never suggest that even if you were the only wireless device connected to your Switch that you will ever achieve the throughput on Gigabit Ethernet.

Another very good thing about the ASUS switch is that it provides a Private Cloud service to any USB 3.0 and/or USB 2.0 device, remotely. It works, and it works well. It used to have a vulnerability but this has been resolved...

Asus RT-AC68U review - 802.11ac router review