TESTING METHODOLOGY

   Since standalone routers can't directly connect to the internet (unless you have a cable connection which we don't) the only thing that's left is to test and see how much bandwidth they can offer by directly linking two devices with them. So once again we will be using the networking benchmark by Passmark (v.8) and the QCheck by Ixia to test such devices the same exact way we test Powerline adapters and Modem/Routers. So both systems are placed 15m away from the router with 3 concrete walls between them while each test is repeated a total of 6 times after which the average scores are recorded into our charts. Both systems have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 installed with all the updates until the 12th of January 2014.

TEST RESULTS

Although the Tenda W1800R managed to hit 78Mbits/s once while testing it with Qcheck in wireless mode all the other times it just wouldn't go over 40Mbit/s. We did continue further testing (over 20 times) during which the device did hit numbers between 61 and 78Mbits/s a few times but just not near as many as it would be required for our test results to be better. As for the Passmark Network Test well it just doesn't seem to like the Tenda W1800R for some unknown reason since it never went over 50Mbits/s.