| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
We had a bad router / modem what ever. The tech got it all swapped out and set it up, including all our devices with the new password. He checked the speeds on each device and said that my desk top would have more speed with an ether net hard wire instead of the wifi signal.
He custom made one for me and sure enough, my speeds are faster.
Wifi ... 40.83 download, 11.49 upload.
Ether net 171.74 download ... 11.49 upload. |
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Even WiFi 6+ and future 7 using 6GHz is slower the Wired Ethernet.
Router/Gateway may have better Radio(s) and Antennas but most devices never can use the fastest bandwidth available to keep down cost to make it.
Many laptops have both NIC's often still 10/100/1000bps max Wired (Most new Routers support 1Gps but not all.) but only 300bps max WiFi.
If you buy USB WiFi Ax/6 w/ one antenna, they can't reach above 150-200bps.
And that's when only device is using WiFi and nothing else is making "noise."
So many things are using 2.4GHz band including M-wave ovens.
People think 5GHz is "better" and way more channels but many devices "Ban" a lot of channels and won't allow but a few at top and bottom of the band because of Radar interference. IOW if live in Cities or other dense areas 5GHz is very crowded same as 2.4GHz.
Go find router/gateway WiFi Channels and try setting 5GHz channel instead of Auto and see very limited of channels in many places. Or everyplace if the manufacturer simple block all "problem channels."
E2A--->Don't go by WiFi Speed in Windows Connection Status. Many WiFi versions now will "float" WiFi speed depending on actual load at any given time and if change fast then the speed may not be accurate because will peak the speed but not update the window. More so when on battery powered devices because faster = more power used.
Example: My laptop WiFi reports 80bps or less to 300bps the max the WiFI AX/6 NIC gets.
And this is just speed to the router/gateway. ISP and other speeds are effected by above...[This message has been edited by theogre (edited 09-22-2022).]
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