The average consumer equipment's wired ports have been stuck at 1 Gbps for fairly some time. On the other hand,802.11ac enables router manufacturers to market multi-gigabit Wi-Fi. Power users have tried to use prosumer and trade switches to choose advantage of multiple ports on devices and obtain multi-gigabit throughput. Netgear recently introduced its AC5300-class router, the Nighthawk X8 R8500. One of the provocative features was the availability of 802.3ad LACP in the official firmware. In the marketing material, or they also pointed out that it was simple enough for the average user to utilize when combined with a Netgear ReadyNAS unit. This article goes into the intricate details of the feature and provides realistic benchmark numbers using it.
Source: anandtech.com