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Test Results

Location 1: Intimately Close

At point blank, the Gigabyte performs fairly, coming in 10% behind the Linksys, but achieving a similar improvement over the Microsoft router.

Location 2: Indoor short distance

At short distance, the throughput for each of the routers drops a little bit, but it continues to maintain 48 or 54 mbps connectivity (it jumped between the two at random intervals). The Gigabyte takes the largest hit, coming in marginally lower than the Microsoft router, and quite a bit lower than the Linksys router.

Location 3: Indoor long distance

Here each router starts getting stressed in terms of throughput, dropping the bandwidth down to 1-5 mbps, depending on what position I decided to sit on the floor with. Okay maybe not, but I was beyond the limits of the high-speed zone. The Microsoft performs the worst, with a throughput that is much lower than the other two.

Location 4: Outdoor medium distance

Here these results did not make too much sense (even after retesting the Microsoft router twice). How the Microsoft managed to perform so much better than the Gigabyte and the Linksys is a mystery, but it may be attributed to the Gigabyte router antennae being more sensitive to directionality.