Does faster internet improve wifi at same distance?

[Agazed]

So I pay for a 50Mpbs internet connection and I have 10Mpbs when i'm 10 feet away from my router,

 

Will I get 20Mpbs when i'm 10 feet away if I have a 100Mbps internet connection?

 

(Read this a few times if it doesnt make sense)

[Levent]

no it doesnt work that way.

[AyBuild]

So I pay for a 50Mpbs internet connection and I have 10Mpbs when i'm 10 feet away from my router,

 

Will I get 20Mpbs when i'm 10 feet away if I have a 100Mbps internet connection?

 

(Read this a few times if it doesnt make sense)

 

No you won't the wifi is limited more by the wifi connectivity on your wifi device. So it won't improve, by a lot at least. So use a wired connection, for the love of god, please.

[Godlygamer23]

No. The limit is your WiFi signal strength.

[ZetZet]

no. if you think about why the speed drops you will get why this is a silly question.

[Godlygamer23]

No you won't the wifi is limited more by the wifi connectivity on your wifi device. So it won't improve, by a lot at least. So use a wired connection, for the love of god, please.

I don't think it'll improve at all.

[AyBuild]

I don't think it'll improve at all.

What using a wired connection?

[Godlygamer23]

What using a wired connection?

Yes, the speed will improve by a great deal since the connection will be consistent and connection strength will be a lot higher.

[rtpb5642]

So I pay for a 50Mpbs internet connection and I have 10Mpbs when i'm 10 feet away from my router,

 

Will I get 20Mpbs when i'm 10 feet away if I have a 100Mbps internet connection?

 

(Read this a few times if it doesnt make sense)

Yes the speed at range will be improved if the device can handle it BUT u would be paying more $ per month so in the long run cheaper to get a better AP

[R3DOPS]

I wish it would. Ethernet it the best way to improve you speed along wifi 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Well yes and no. Basically if the WiFi max speed is the limiting factor it won't improve, but if the connection is then it will. While it depends router to router and on connection, I would say having a connection of less than say 20 mbps nominal will actually show improvement on most routers when connection goes up.

It may seem odd to many city people, but in rural areas it's extremely common to have routers significantly stronger than the isp service. (This is actually an issue at my parents house in fact.)

[skywake]

@Agazed

Everyone likes road analogies with networking, so think of each network connection like a road. When you have a bottleneck in that "road" it doesn't matter how much faster the traffic flowing into it is it'll slow down to the same speed. For example if there's a set of traffic lights that only lets through a few cars at a time. Or when a crowd of people try to get through one or two doors at at once. It doesn't matter how fast they're arriving if there's a massive bottleneck.

 

Well yes and no. Basically if the WiFi max speed is the limiting factor it won't improve, but if the connection is then it will. While it depends router to router and on connection, I would say having a connection of less than say 20 mbps nominal will actually show improvement on most routers when connection goes up.

OP said their current connection is sitting at 50Mbps. Assuming the speed limit they're talking about is actually the WiFi and not something like torrents clogging up the tubes? They won't get any improvement. Because in this case WiFi is likely the bottleneck.

[Curufinwe_wins]

@Agazed

Everyone likes road analogies with networking, so think of each network connection like a road. When you have a bottleneck in that "road" it doesn't matter how much faster the traffic flowing into it is it'll slow down to the same speed. For example if there's a set of traffic lights that only lets through a few cars at a time. Or when a crowd of people try to get through one or two doors at at once. It doesn't matter how fast they're arriving if there's a massive bottleneck.

 

OP said their current connection is sitting at 50Mbps. Assuming the speed limit they're talking about is actually the WiFi and not something like torrents clogging up the tubes? They won't get any improvement. Because in this case WiFi is likely the bottleneck.

Indeed, by my own reasoning he wouldn't get a benefit. I was merely pointing out to the previous posters that in many cases you can get a benefit. In fact, you can look at specific routers to see their speed at a distance to see if you are under that bottleneck or not.

[Agazed]

no it doesnt work that way.

 

No. The limit is your WiFi signal strength.

 

No you won't the wifi is limited more by the wifi connectivity on your wifi device. So it won't improve, by a lot at least. So use a wired connection, for the love of god, please.

 

no. if you think about why the speed drops you will get why this is a silly question.

 

Yes the speed at range will be improved if the device can handle it BUT u would be paying more $ per month so in the long run cheaper to get a better AP

 

I wish it would. Ethernet it the best way to improve you speed along wifi 

 

Well yes and no. Basically if the WiFi max speed is the limiting factor it won't improve, but if the connection is then it will. While it depends router to router and on connection, I would say having a connection of less than say 20 mbps nominal will actually show improvement on most routers when connection goes up.

It may seem odd to many city people, but in rural areas it's extremely common to have routers significantly stronger than the isp service. (This is actually an issue at my parents house in fact.)

 

@Agazed

Everyone likes road analogies with networking, so think of each network connection like a road. When you have a bottleneck in that "road" it doesn't matter how much faster the traffic flowing into it is it'll slow down to the same speed. For example if there's a set of traffic lights that only lets through a few cars at a time. Or when a crowd of people try to get through one or two doors at at once. It doesn't matter how fast they're arriving if there's a massive bottleneck.

 

OP said their current connection is sitting at 50Mbps. Assuming the speed limit they're talking about is actually the WiFi and not something like torrents clogging up the tubes? They won't get any improvement. Because in this case WiFi is likely the bottleneck.

 

Indeed, by my own reasoning he wouldn't get a benefit. I was merely pointing out to the previous posters that in many cases you can get a benefit. In fact, you can look at specific routers to see their speed at a distance to see if you are under that bottleneck or not.

 

Thought I would update you guys on this. So before my new ISP installed my new internet my speeds were 28/5. I went to the corner of my house and saw a 3/1 speed with the speedtest app on my phone.

 

So now I have 100/100 Mbps speeds and I put my router in the same spot and went to the same spot where I tested it across my house. I then saw 20/14 instead of 3/1.

 

Oh and don't worry I use ethernet with all my PC's and only use WiFi with phones.