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    Question about antennas and streams when upgrading a laptop card from N to AC

    I don't live in the U.S. In quite a few cities of Japan, fiber is pretty prevalent. A lot of the cabling is above ground so it's easy to pull a cable off the street and install it into basically any home. In my area, the average price for those speeds are about 40 dollars a month. They also give...
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    Question about antennas and streams when upgrading a laptop card from N to AC

    I have a whitebrand version of the MSI GE60, which is available as built to order from many different vendors offering many different wireless cards, so I'm guessing it's not locked down. Right now, figuring out which router to get is the hardest decision for me because where I am, the only...
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    Question about antennas and streams when upgrading a laptop card from N to AC

    Well, like I wrote in the last post, I get about 100mbps download from Speedtest, so I don't want my Wifi to bottleneck that. Even though N goes up to 450mbps, I will only be able to do 300mbps since I only have two antennas. But because of overhead/less than perfect signal the actual throughput...
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    Question about antennas and streams when upgrading a laptop card from N to AC

    Thanks so much for your response. I have been racking my brains with this for days now. So, for my laptop with 2 antennas, the best possible solution for maximum bandwidth would be to get a dual stream AC card, which would give me a link rate of 867, and compatible router, yes? I am pretty...
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    Question about antennas and streams when upgrading a laptop card from N to AC

    Alright so I did as much research as I possibly can and I learned a great deal about these newer technologies from this website but I still can't find a clear explanation of "streams" and how they relate to the number of antenna connectors in a laptop. Here is my understanding so far, just to...
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