Tested with MacBook Pro Retina (Haswell) AC Standard

I had previously the AirPort Extreme Base Station to the 5th generation, but my Macbook Pro has the new standard AC and I wanted to take advantage of this. First briefly something predecessor my house is pretty big so I could not everywhere with the old base station to receive data at a desired rate in the house and the garden about 35 meters away from the router was not even thinking about a network.

Now to the new base station with AC standard.

I am very excited that speed has even exceeded my expectations. We have also achieved a 50 Mbit connection with Kabel BW, these are. The station is at the "2nd floor of the house, the living room is 1 floor down and about 15 meters offset from the router in between 40 cm and several concrete stairs made of granite and stainless steel is. In the living room are now of the 50 Mbit yet 30 , 2 achieved (before there were 6 Mbit, the old station) Now I have even in the garden still very good reception. Here come at about 35 meters distance to the base station currently 14.3 Mbit to (before there was no power to this point).

Now the transfer rate when copying "HDD PC" (connected with network cable Airport) on the MacBook Pro (AC):

Transfer a 1GB file: 14.8 seconds
Transfer of a 15.1 GB file 5 Minutes, 57 Seconds

These values ​​I've never achieved with a router.

I hope the information has been helpful (please note that these values ​​are only achieved with AC-enabled devices)

I think that the transmission and reach through firmware updates, etc. in the next 2 years will be extremely increased.