Everything running 802.11n - a 13-inch, Mid 2012 Macbook Air running iperf to a hard-wired iMac. Latest firmware on both the ASUS and Airport.
Run iperf
with -d Do a bidirectional test simultaneously
.
ASUS RT-N16 Apple Airport Extreme (2013)
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 76.1 MBytes 63.8 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 175 MBytes 147 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.0-10.0 sec 45.5 MBytes 38.0 Mbits/sec [ 6] 0.0-10.0 sec 90.5 MBytes 75.7 Mbits/sec
ASUS RT-N16 Apple Airport Extreme (2013)
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 27.6 MBytes 23.1 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 81.0 MBytes 67.6 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.0-10.1 sec 21.2 MBytes 17.7 Mbits/sec [ 6] 0.0-10.1 sec 46.6 MBytes 38.8 Mbits/sec