OMG! i disconnected everything exept the laptop from the router and the results!

[liquidmagma]

so tipically i get like 2000 Kbps down to about 100 Kbps. now i disconnected 2 phones, tv box and tv from the router. this is what it looks like. 

i was thinking that my isp is throttling me. doesnt seem like it.

[Bcat00]

Uuuughh, yaa let me go have a try too because this got me interested.

[Gaussen]

good for you then

dont forget to disconnect your connection to your pc for more POWER !!

[RollinLower]

This title is such clickbait, i felt like this was facebook when i read it.

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Looks like it's time for a new router or whatever you're using if just having other devices plugged in not doing anything causes your speed to drop to 1/4  

Good thing you figured out the cause!

[liquidmagma]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Looks like it's time for a new router or whatever you're using if just having other devices plugged in not doing anything causes your speed to drop to 1/4  

Good thing you figured out the cause!

i guess its the tv box. the speed we pay is 12 Mbps.

[NumLock21]

Isn't it obvious that the more devices you connect, the less your bandwidth will be.

[liquidmagma]

2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

This title is such clickbait, i felt like this was facebook when i read it.

tbh it kinda looks shit like this: ''with this odd technique you can learn a language in 2 weeks'' ill give you that 

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4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Isn't it obvious that the more devices you connect, the less your bandwidth will be.

if this is a joke it is not clear

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

if this is a joke it is not clear

Some devices will continue to connect, even when it's not being used.

I was the only one using my PC and noticed the speed was lagging. No one else was using it, so I disabled my wifi, since all the other devices in my home are wireless, and the speed immediately went back to normal.

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1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Some devices will continue to connect, even when it's not being used.

I was the only one using my PC and noticed the speed was lagging. No one else was using it, so I disabled my wifi, since all the other devices in my home are wireless, and the speed immediately went back to normal.

well that sounds like a terrible router/switch/AP/all of the above then.  It should be common sense that the number of devices doesn't matter unless they're actually using/transferring data.

[NumLock21]

7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

well that sounds like a terrible router/switch/AP/all of the above then.  It should be common sense that the number of devices doesn't matter unless they're actually using/transferring data.

So I have to enable back my wifi and went to check all of the other devices and noticed, the reason for the lagging internet was the ipad downloading some update. When the download finished, everything was fine.

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17 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

So I have to enable back my wifi and went to check all of the other devices and noticed, the reason for the lagging internet was the ipad downloading some update. When the download finished, everything was fine.

yeah that'll do it...

[liquidmagma]

just noticed the download speed went from 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps. yay

[NZLaurence]

5 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

well that sounds like a terrible router/switch/AP/all of the above then.  It should be common sense that the number of devices doesn't matter unless they're actually using/transferring data.

This is not strictly true. A lot depends on the devices and the router. Because of its nature WiFi is a shared medium, this means that only one device can be putting data into the air at a time or you get collusions. The general rule of thumb is that WiFi will slow down to the lowest device.

If you have an old 802.11g device on a ac network you are going to get dropped down to g speeds.

Also if one device is on really bad signal then it will have more transmission issues and will actually slow down the whole network.

Routers get round this with some tricky time slicing tactics and by telling some devices to just shut up for longer. Also if you router has multiple radios it will normally try to steer bad devices onto other bands.

This problem will be largely hidden for most users as normally you won't see any huge slowdowns relative with total bandwidth with a small number of devices.

However if you only have ac devices on you network it will have a lower ping then a mix of ac and g devices.