5m from router line of sight
This shouldn’t be a demanding test for either router, as each machine had clear line of sight to the router.
Here’s iperf3 output for the Cudy with the MS-02 Ultra.
At 5 metres, the Cudy WR11000 shows the clear benefit of Wi-Fi 7. With MLO enabled, the router reported a 320MHz EHT link, with receive and transmit rates of 4.8Gbps and 4.3Gbps respectively. In real-world iperf3 testing from the Wi-Fi client to the wired server, this translated into 2.34Gbps of throughput. That’s effectively the limit of a 2.5GbE connection once protocol overhead is taken into account.
With the Minisforum M2 connected to the Cudy router, receive and transmit rates averaged around 2.25Gbps on the 6GHz band. Surprisingly, MLO delivered worse performance on this machine.
The BOSGAME VTA-439 hosts an RZ717-based Wi-Fi 7 module. RZ717 is the AMD-branded MediaTek MT7925/Filogic 360 class adapter, and MediaTek describes Filogic 360 as a 160MHz bandwidth-grade Wi-Fi 7 notebook solution, with Wi-Fi 7 features including 4096-QAM and MLO, but up to 160MHz BW. While the Cudy router has 320MHz-capable 6GHz operation, this cannot be achieved with the VTA-439 machine.
The BOSGAME system produced the weakest 6GHz result of the three, averaging around 1.68Gbps on 6G and slightly lower on 5G and MLO. It seems the machine has poor Wi-Fi relative to the other machines.
The Zyxel EX5601 still performs very well for a Wi-Fi 6 router, reaching 1.95Gbps over a 160MHz HE connection. It also delivered much cleaner idle latency, averaging just 1.73ms with very little variation. By comparison, the Cudy averaged 4.97ms and showed a larger maximum spike using MLO. The Cudy is therefore the faster router for large transfers, but the Zyxel remains impressively consistent for low-latency traffic at close range.
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Page 1 – Introduction
Page 2 – 5m from router line of sight
Page 3 – Bedroom
Page 4 – Office
Page 5 – Power Consumption and Summary