Talk talk router

Perhaps even more impressively, the Wi-Fi Hub held its own as I moved further away from the router. In the upstairs bedroom, it kept up a download rate of 22MB/sec, and even in the bathroom at the back of the house – always a tricky spot for wireless reception, thanks to a combination of distance and plumbing – I got a whizzy 12MB/sec, enough to convey the full bandwidth of my 100Mbits/sec fiber broadband connection. The Nighthawk, with its oversized external antennae, did slightly better here, but only nudged speeds up to 13MB/sec.

This may all sound a bit slow for a device that claims wireless speeds of up to 2,200Mbits/sec (275MB/sec). But as usual with routers, that’s merely a theoretical maximum and it rather unrealistically adds together the maximum 2.4GHz and 5GHz speeds. Make no mistake, the real-world file copy speeds I saw from the TalkTalk Wi-Fi Hub are among the best in the business.