NOKIA BEACON

What should my Wi-Fi speed be?

A typical phone, a few rooms from the Beacon, in a normal neighborhood. Change anything that doesn't match the house.

You should see about

FairA few rooms away

71.7 Mbps – 396 Mbps

One phone, a few rooms away, in a normal neighborhood. The phone picks the band, so the low number is the worst it might do and the high number is the best.

Plug a computer into Ethernet and a speed test should read about 1 Gbps. That is the cable, not the Wi-Fi.

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Wi-Fi 6 · 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz · 20–80 MHz · 2×2 · MCS 11 · 0.8 µs GI

Band is unknown, so this is the slowest to fastest across 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.
This client caps the top at 80 MHz, so wider channels on this Beacon are outside the range.
Medium, a typical suburb. Neighboring Wi-Fi takes airtime after the distance factor. 2.4 GHz loses more than 5 GHz, and 5 GHz loses more than 6 GHz. Wider channels lose more than 20 MHz. The signal bars stay on distance.
No plan or WAN cap — the radio, distance, and neighboring Wi-Fi set this wireless speed.

Theoretical maximum

287 Mbps – 1.2 Gbps

PHY rate before distance or caps

LAN output

1 Gbps

Ethernet link speed of this port. Wi-Fi does not change it.

PHY287 Mbps – 1.2 Gbps

Air, with neighbors71.7 Mbps – 396 Mbps

Wireless internet71.7 Mbps – 396 Mbps

Ethernet port1 Gbps

Each band uses its own distance factor. Low is the slowest case, high is the fastest, then × 0.97 × 0.65–0.92 for neighbors

2.4 GHz · 287 Mbps × 0.38 × 0.97 × 0.8 = 84.6 Mbps

2.4 GHz · 574 Mbps × 0.5 × 0.97 × 0.65 = 181 Mbps

5 GHz · 287 Mbps × 0.28 × 0.97 × 0.92 = 71.7 Mbps

5 GHz · 1201 Mbps × 0.4 × 0.97 × 0.85 = 396 Mbps

Internet on this Ethernet port

LAN output above is the jack itself. A speed test on that cable is the minimum of the plan, the internet port, and the jack. A copy between two wired devices can use the full jack and ignores the plan.

Speed test on the cable: 1 Gbps
Computer to computer: 1 Gbps

Your plan

Your Beacon

Where is the phone?

Other Wi-Fi nearby

Neighbors, not walls.

Fine tuneAuto band · auto channel · Wi-Fi 6 phone · 1 Gbps Ethernet

Wi-Fi band

Auto covers every band this phone can join, slowest to fastest.

Channel width

Auto uses every channel that band can run, including 20 MHz. A fixed width only counts bands that offer it.

The device

A typical phone is Wi-Fi 6 and stops at 80 MHz.

Widest channel that device can use

Ethernet port

The jack itself, not the Wi-Fi speed.

How this is calculated

The first screen is a typical home: a 1 Gbps plan on a Beacon 3.1, a Wi-Fi 6 phone a few rooms away, in a normal neighborhood, with the phone free to pick the band and the channel. A 3 Gbps plan switches to a Beacon 4, and a 6 Gbps plan switches to a Beacon 9. The Ethernet jack starts at 1 Gbps, which is the port most devices use.
One client, two spatial streams, one band at a time. Auto band is not a second radio — it is the spread from the slowest band this client can join to the fastest. AX3000 sums a 574 Mbps 2.4 GHz radio and a 2,402 Mbps 5 GHz radio. That headline is not what one phone gets.
PHY is the highest MCS for the negotiated generation: Wi-Fi 5 MCS 9 (MCS 8 at 20 MHz, 0.4 µs guard), Wi-Fi 6 MCS 11, Wi-Fi 7 MCS 13. Wi-Fi 6 and 7 use a 0.8 µs guard.
Expected speed is PHY × a distance factor × a small generation factor (Wi-Fi 7 × 1, Wi-Fi 6 or 6E × 0.97, Wi-Fi 5 × 0.90). Close is about 50–70% of PHY in a clear room. Medium and far drop from there, faster on 5 GHz and fastest on 6 GHz. The factor already includes ordinary MAC overhead, a couple of interior walls, and retries. Neighboring networks are separate, below.
Interference is other Wi-Fi, not walls and not extra devices on this Beacon. Quiet leaves the speed alone. Neighborhood, a typical suburb, and Apartment keep a fraction of that clean speed. 2.4 GHz loses the most, then 5 GHz, then 6 GHz. A wider channel loses more than 20 MHz because it overlaps more neighbors. The signal bars stay on distance, so a close client in an apartment can still read Strong and be slow.
Auto is the full width list on that band, not a typical pair. On 5 GHz that is 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz, because these Beacons do sit on 20 MHz. On 2.4 GHz it is 20–40. On 6 GHz it is 20–320. The low end of the speed range is the narrowest width at the low end of the distance bucket. The high end is the widest width the client allows, at the high end of the bucket.
Auto band means the joined radio is unknown. The low number is the slowest supported band and width in that distance bucket. The high number is the fastest. Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 are not given 6 GHz. A fixed channel width leaves out bands that do not offer it, so 80 MHz never includes 2.4 GHz.
Internet results cannot exceed the plan or the WAN port. LAN output is the Ethernet port you pick, not the Wi-Fi speed. Internet through that port is the minimum of the plan, the WAN, and the port. A local transfer between wired devices can use the full port.
Multi-link operation is not added. A Wi-Fi 7 client that actually brings up two links can beat a single band. Mesh hops and extra clients on this same Beacon are not modeled.

Beacon 3.1 distance buckets

Distance	2.4 GHz	5 GHz
Close	< 15 ft55–70% of PHY	< 12 ft50–65% of PHY
Medium	15–40 ft38–50% of PHY	12–28 ft28–40% of PHY
Far	40–70 ft22–34% of PHY	28–45 ft12–22% of PHY