Max data rate for wifi

The short answer is the following :

802.11n : 600Mbps
802.11ac : 6033 Mbps
802.11ax : 9608 Mbps

Note that these are PHY speeds.

PHY speeds is only part of the story, since it can get slowed by the MAC. This is a whole topic in itself, and we will cover this in another blog post.

Also, note that to get the highest throughput, you need to use optional features. So this means even if your router is 802.11ac compliant, it doesn't mean it has all the key features implemented.

For example, in the calculations above, we include 8 spatial streams. We also use a channel bandwidth of 160MHz.