I'm still waiting for mine to arrive, but I'm wondering if it _may_ be possible to get faster data rates without using the AT commands, and running code on the ESP8266 itself.
Ah yes that would be the holy grail, most BLE or Wifi chips have an MCU that could be used if their dev. environment weren't the software equivalent of unobtainium, require 500$ dev boards and / or be totally obscure.
If you find out anything, make sure to post it somewhere!
If you find out anything, make sure to post it somewhere!