HI to all.. I have a USR 8054 Router and 2 USR 5416 cards. I am having good luck with both. USR says 100 mbps but I am getting 40mbps to 70mbps. My signal is around 90% and link quality is around 90%. I have Hawking antennas attached to the router. I have been reading about MIMO. Is it worth switching to a new MIMO system? Thank you for your time. Take care all.

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Well your not getting 40Mb throughput on any consumer based wireless LAN and obviously 70Mb is a pipe dream. Signalling rate yeah, actual throughput, not a chance. It will be years before you actually get 70Mb throughput with retail wireless gear. The primary advantage of MIMO is range, rather than throughput. If your coverage is good then there isn't much advantage to "upgrading"

Well said.

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THank you both for your input. I will save the $$$. When I swap files from my computers I DO see the TX and RX fluctuate between 40mbps and 70mbps.


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I don't know what utility your using but you can rest assured you are NOT getting anywhere close to 70 Mbps. The best you can hope for with that hardware solution is about 35Mbps sustained. I expect your looking at the signalling rate, which is an indicator or signal strength and quality. The association signalling rate from client to AP, not bandwidth. You can go get a utility like Qcheck or even setup an FTP or webserver on one end and transfer some files that way. Or the antiquated method of a large file transfer and the second hand on a watch, then do the math. Regardless you are most certainly not getting 40-70 Mbps of realworld throughput.