How to Test Wireless Routers?

Arrangement and Testbed

To get ready routers for testing, we incapacitate every single other router in the region to furnish a moderately spotless condition with negligible obstruction. We start by redesigning the router's firmware to the most recent form (if essential) and introduce the gadget as per the producer's directions. We test every router in a shut network, with all security choices impaired, and we empower any presentation improving highlights, for example, beamforming. We utilize a work area framework fueled by an Intel Core i7 CPU as our host PC and a Toshiba Tecra Z50 workstation with an Intel AC 7260 wireless 802.11ac network connector as our customer.

Arrangement and Features

We take a gander at the router's establishment and arrangement methodology to measure usability and check all composed and online documentation, giving uncommon consideration to things like arrangement wizards and on-screen help with clarifications of essential and propelled settings. We rate highlights, for example, size and structure factor, the quantity of wired Ethernet ports and radio wires, and if the administration interface is easy to understand. We likewise search for certain administration highlights, including parental controls, site filtering, visitor networks, security alternatives, firewall settings, and Quality of Service (QoS) settings.

SU-MIMO Testing

In 2007, when 802.11n Wi-Fi gadgets were discharged, Single User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) additionally appeared, which enables a router to send and get numerous information streams successively (each gadget in turn). SU-MIMO innovation is utilized in the entirety of the present routers, and numerous routers currently offer MU-MIMO gushing innovation. MU-MIMO routers can send and get numerous information streams all the while to various gadgets without bandwidth corruption and require particular testing with different customers, yet the customers should be MU-MIMO-perfect. We recently included MU-MIMO testing in our audits, however since there still aren't numerous MU-MIMO customers out there and the current 802.11ac form of MU-MIMO just works with downlink information, we've suspended these tests until further notice.

To test SU-MIMO routers, we use JPerf, an open-source network-execution utility, to test throughput between the server and the customer and record the outcomes in megabits every second (Mbps). Each JPerf trials for 60 seconds, utilizes the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and conveys four parallel streams.

We start with a nearness test, where the customer is in a similar room as the router, isolated by a separation of 5 feet. We run three occasions of the JPerf test and utilize the normal throughput speed as our final score. Next, we move the customer into another room and spot it in an area that is 30 feet from the router. In the wake of rebooting both the customer and the router, we run a similar three JPerf tests and utilize the normal as our final score. For double band routers, we run these tests while associated with the 2.4GHz band and afterward again while associated with the 5GHz band.

For models that have a USB port that supports outer stockpiling network, we run read/compose speed tests to measure how the router handles huge file moves. We interface a USB 3.0 hard drive and time to what extent it takes to move a 1.5GB envelope containing a blend of video, music, photograph, and archive files between the work area and the USB drive. We at that point take the slipped by time in a flash and separation 1,536 (1.5GB) by that number to get the compose move speed in megabytes every second (Mbps). Peruse speeds are estimated by moving the file from the drive to the work area and are determined a similar way.

Wi-Fi System Testing

These tests are done like customary router testing yet with a couple of varieties. On the off chance that the framework just runs in band-controlling mode (where the router decides the best accessible band), we run three closeness tests and three 30-foot tests on the router segment, and afterward again for every hub. On the off chance that the framework bolsters devoted band control (where you have individual SSIDs for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz groups), we run three nearness and three 30-foot tests for each band on the router segment and on every hub. While moving from hub to hub, we disengage the customer from the network and reconnect it to guarantee that it is associating with the nearest hub.

Range Extender Testing

Range extenders are tried utilizing the Jperf utility similarly as conventional routers. The extender is set 30 feet from the router and each band is tried multiple times with the customer at closeness, and again at separations of 25, 50, and 75 feet. We utilize the normal score for every one of the four territories.

You can see our preferred range extenders in our purchasing guide. Likewise look at our Wi-Fi router item control for the most recent audits. You can likewise figure out how to help your wireless sign, or set up and upgrade your router.

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