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• Use the Select Benchmark dropdown to choose a benchmark
• Click on a Company name (shift-click to for multiple companies) and click the Filter button to filter the view. Click the Clear button to bring back all products.
• Features Button: Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see product features.
• Performance Table Button: Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see a table of all performance results.
• Performance vs. Location: Check the boxes to the left of up to four products and click to see a comparison plot of performance in all test locations.
• Benchmark Summary Button: Check the box to the left of one product and click the Benchmark Summary button to see all benchmark test results.
• Price Performance Button: Click the Price Performance button to see products plotted by Price vs. Performance
• Mousing over a bar will show the lowest product price. Clicking the bar will show other prices.
• Clicking on the product description will take you to the related review.
  
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Key

• represents results using this current procedure, with an Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 test client used, unless otherwise noted
• represents results using this current procedure, with an Intel Ultimate N Wi-Fi Link 5300 test client used, unless otherwise noted
• represents results using this older test procedure, but with an Intel Ultimate N Wi-Fi Link 5300 test client.
• represents results using this older test procedure.
• represents results using the procedure described in the product review.

Use the selector to the right of the benchmark name to see individual values from the six locations.

When looking for products, start with the 2.4 GHz Up or Downlink Benchmarks to see both 802.11b/g and 2.4 GHz band 802.11n products. The 40 MHz B/W benchmarks apply only to 802.11n products.

NOTE! Only tests with the same color bars are directly comparable!

See this article for general advice on how to choose a router.

See this article for advice on how to choose a wireless router.

Here is a shorter article for advice on how to choose a wireless router.

Description

This chart shows the throughput of 802.11 wireless devices for the frequency band, direction and mode described in the chart title.

The default Average view is calculated from throughput measurements taken at multiple locations in a residential home.