Wi-Fi Tutorial Lesson 13: Band steering, airtime fairness and lies damn lies

In this webinar, we look into the theory and practice of band steering and airtime fairness as techniques to deliver high aggregate throughput in consumer routers. The video shows that while the theoretical gains are possible - as claimed by the router vendors - in practice, there is evidence of room for improvement.

Throughput is a very commonly used metric when testing Wi-Fi and probably the most commonly used metric when talking about the system's performance. In previous tutorials, we've discussed throughput, where we connected stations and access points with minimum attenuation to see what maximum throughput could be achieved.