Moving on, I added heavy browsing to run simultaneously with 1080p and 4K traffic. And the way heavy browsing is simulated is by loading 12x 128KB of data, which should behave like a normal web page. To make browsing more realistic, I also added 500ms of jitter. It will still look like someone is frantically moving around the page and jumping from site to site (kind of like the current state of Google search), but for our test, it should be fine.
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ASUS RT-AX86U Pro – Multi-Client Stress Test using 5 client devices – Simultaneous 1080p streaming and heavy web browsing (5GHz 80MHz) – Focuses on 1080p streaming.
The first thing I checked was how well the RT-AX86U Pro handled canada telegram data five clients simultaneously streaming 1080p video and heavy web browsing. As you can see from the graphs, WiFi 5 clients struggled a bit more than the others, while WiFi 6 and 6E devices managed to stay below 100ms for longer.
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ASUS RT-AX86U Pro – Multi-Client Stress Test using 5 client devices – Simultaneous 1080p streaming and heavy browsing (5GHz 80MHz) – Focuses on heavy browsing.
But at least 5% of the time it was still above 100ms, so it’s not exactly stellar performance. As we’ll see in a minute, it’s still better than 4K streaming and heavy web browsing. Before that, let’s look at the high browsing performance while simultaneously running 1080p streaming. The WiFi 6E client latency disappeared almost immediately, but remained below 1.5s. If you’re patient enough, that’s still an “acceptable” result. As for the other clients, they did a decent job.