How to get 150mbps throughput from 300mbps wireless NA/NG?

Many reviews shows the throughput of wireless N 2x2 300mbps (2.4ghz or 5ghz) to have throughput of less than 100mbps, but some users write that they actually get actual speeds of over 150mbps.

If you are one of those users who get nice speeds, what is your setup ? asking specifically about router/AP and wireless chipset in laptop.

 

Here's some info from Small Net Builder:

How Fast Can Your Wi-Fi Go? - SmallNetBuilder

5 Ways To Fix Slow 802.11n Speed - SmallNetBuilder

 

I don't have 150+ Mbps at home so I tested my Wireless throughput using the Aruba Networks enterprise AP from my university. The university don't have a upload speed cap but the download is limited to 4.4 Mbps to not hog the bandwidth by 1 user.

You can see the final speed on my sig:

I used the Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 with 16.1.5.2 drivers as my WiFi adapter for the test:

 

Thanks, but this doesn't answer this thread's question, I am assuming connection speed of already 300mbps, and talking about increasing the throughput.

I wonder why all routers show less than ~100mbps throughput when on 300mbps network, on reviews site like smallnetbuilder.net

While its clear from your comment, and some users reviews at amazon that it could reach 150+ mbps.

 

I remember channel width making the biggest difference for me. I was getting ~90 Mbps because the router was set to 20 Mhz, changing that to 40 Mhz increased that to ~140 Mbps. Older devices don't support 40 MHz though, so they will not be able to connect at all.

 

Ok, which tool do you use to measure your "throughput".

How Fast Is Your Network? Five Ways To Measure Network Speed - SmallNetBuilder

I use LAN Speed Test .

Edit: Here's a shot of my throughput using an Intel Wireless N-1000 laptop connection, to my Gateway Network Server, via a Linksys E3200. My Windows connection speed indicates 144Mbps, and inSSIDer reports my speed as 156Mbps.

 

@ Dragnoak

I started this thread to try to choose a router to upgrade to, so I am not measuring the speed with anything yet, but that looks like a nice tool ..

 

Getting Aruba Networks AP is certainly out of the question unless you have lots of $$$ to spend.

For router upgrade, if your #1 utmost priority is range and throughput (features are less priority) then Linksys WRT1900AC is the king. Netgear R7000 and ASUS AC68 also offers excellent transfer rates and has lots of features.

 

I want to keep things within a very small budget, thats why I am going for 300mbps (N600) stuff.

Buying AC pci-e card for laptop and a router would cost significantly more than N600 hardware.

I do not need range, usually will be within 6 meters (20feet) of the router with possibly a 1~2 walls in between sometimes only.

I do believe that AP with similar performance to your example of Aruba is possible, look here for example: Wireless throughput for each network ? - AnandTech Forums (see last post in that thread)

 

It's nice to see that Netgear single band gigabit router can pull off the same performance as Aruba in an interference free environment. Well, for a dual band case, the cheapest option is the Netgear WNDR3400 refurbished for $25 but it only has fast Ethernet which limits all throughput at around 90 - 100 Mbps. A step up model is WNDR3700 which includes the gigabit port. I don't know if the chipset inside the WNDR3700 can pull off 180 Mbps throughput on 5 GHz band. In any case, pulling off 180 Mbps transfer rate on 2.4 GHz is very rare these days so 5 GHz band is often needed for that.

The N600 Gigabit routers that are competing today that I know are Netgear WNDR3700, ASUS RT-56U, Linksys EA2700 and TL-WDR3600

You can start searching smallnetbuilder for reviews of these routers and also ask others with their throughput on a good NIC such as Intel 7260 or ASUS PCIE Network Adapters.

 

The Netgear WNDR3700 seems to be a very good router, speed wise, but it seem to have reliability issues.