I think my Wireless N is my bottleneck.
Also, I hate each and every one of you in this thread.
And no, I don't live in a third world country. I live in a major city in Arizona.
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MacBook Pro 802.11ac upgrade
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Even me?
Mine costs $60 so price per mbit is a little skewed.
It's sad to think that in the 21st century I can live in a city with over 1 million people, and still be stuck with this archaic DSL connection.
I live about one block from getting cable internet and they won't expand it to my area. Satellite internet sucks and it's capped, Century Link won't upgrade the DSLAM box in this area due to "lack of demand". I really envy you all with real internet at your homes. I've honestly considered selling my dream home just so I can move to an area with real internet.
Even me?
Nah, 300 Mbps Wireless-N from my 2011 MBA i5/4GB can go to 179 Mbps maximum:
I don't understand your results - your download speed is barely adequate but your upload speed is awesome.
It's university's WiFi. They don't throttle the download speeds in summer or winter, but in the Fall and Spring semester, they limit the download speed to 4.4 Mbps so that no one can hog all the available download bandwidth.
Here in SoCal LA area, internet is very expensive and paying for 15 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up cost as much as 100 / 10 plan in other countries and states.
Well of course that makes sense. It's so much more costly to provide service in densely populated areas. That's why it's so costly in Singapore and Hong Kong and so cheap in the arctic.
Oh... wait a second...
So jealous of pretty much anyone in this thread....Cable company kept jacking the price up so we switched to DSL...6mbps downlink and 0.5mbps uplink on a good day....yeeeee meanwhile the idiots in my rich town complain about Verizon digging up dirt to throw in fibre so we can get 15mbps up and down for like 1/8th the price...its like my town is monopolizing TWC for them! Rant aside the US needs to start building some serious infastructure for networking, some countries saturate a gigabit ethernet link with ease and the one guy with the 850+ up and down...well sir thats just unfair!
For people still interested in this and wanting NATIVE internal 3 stream 802.11ac WiFi for classic MBP's (2011-2012), I've been working on a solution for the past few months
I have a Classic MBP 2012 and would love to swap to AC.. in order to do it wouldn't it be as simple as changing the card?
No, its not that simple at all, and also why I've already spent a few months designing a solution.
802.11ac's wide band will offer less chance of RF interference and better coverage and is a nice to have. If anyone needs better then 802.11n then they have a high quality problem. It's nice the technology is catching up to wired speeds. 802.11n, Multi-channel Cable Service, and SSD drives really makes things nice.
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Mine costs $60 so price per mbit is a little skewed.
It's sad to think that in the 21st century I can live in a city with over 1 million people, and still be stuck with this archaic DSL connection.
I live about one block from getting cable internet and they won't expand it to my area. Satellite internet sucks and it's capped, Century Link won't upgrade the DSLAM box in this area due to "lack of demand". I really envy you all with real internet at your homes. I've honestly considered selling my dream home just so I can move to an area with real internet.
I heard of a story where a guy wanted FiOS but Verizon wouldn't dig up the extra 1.2 miles to his house. The guy paid like $50K to pull fiber off a local cell towers fiber backhaul, covered all the costs the Verizon guys needed to do it
Unfortunetely the guy had ******* money so yeah...I'd love to do the same if I had that money since the school and cell tower across from me have 1Gigabit fiber backhaul (friend works on the school network and in highschool we used to play around with it ). I even get the WiFi signal from the school but its too weak, if the service wasn't filtered to block certain services I might have considered setting up a repeater on my roof with a directional antenna and/or pay them for high speed service. Oh well...maybe in another house...or life For people still interested in this and wanting NATIVE internal 3 stream 802.11ac WiFi for classic MBP's (2011-2012), I've been working on a solution for the past few months
I'd be interested.
Thanks. I had a couple minor setbacks this week on the prototype; I'll post a thread when it's completed.
Thanks. I had a couple minor setbacks this week on the prototype; I'll post a thread when it's completed.
Please do - assuming this will mount in the stock location, correct?
Update
Sorry guys, I've unfortunately come to realize that the antenna connectors on the cMBP are too large to be used with the new rMBP 802.11ac cards. I feel like I got so close to finishing the project, yet failed. This would've been an excellent Kickstarter. I even spent the time on developing an adapter board. Feel free to chime in.
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Sorry guys, I've unfortunately come to realize that the antenna connectors on the cMBP are too large to be used with the new rMBP 802.11ac cards. I feel like I got so close to finishing the project, yet failed. This would've been an excellent Kickstarter. I even spent the time on developing an adapter board.
Feel free to chime in. Photos:
Nice work, really!
Do you have any insight on how it might look on a rMBP? Does it even need an adapter board?
EDIT: Looking at pics from iFixIt, seems that should be a 1:1 swap on rMBP?
It even occurs to me, that you also use the 802.11n card on your pics, not the 802.11ac card, which has different part number:
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Thanks! Yes, for the early rMBP, it should be a direct swap, and no adapter necessary. Also, you are correct that the card I used in the pic is the 802.11n version. I wanted to try that card first (since they're nearly identical) instead of cracking open my new late 2013 rMBP with 802.11ac lol.
OK, then one day when I need to upgrade to ac, I only need to get hold of the new card. Good news!