Unusual speed problem...

[Steve1978]

Hi, 

 

Right, i am using wireless PCE AC68 and i have the same Asus AC68u router. Windows reports my connection speed to the router at about 250 meg. If i use Wifi sweet spots on my iPhone XS i am getting 253Mbs at the same position as the antenna so i am sure that that is accurate.

 

When I carry out a broadband speed test i am getting around 200meg on the wifi (I would get about 350 on the wire) so again this is all about right.

 

However when i transfer a file on the wifi i am getting a flat transfer speed of around 11MB/s which is the speed i would associate with a 100 meg connection. Now when i plug a wire in and transfer the same file on a wire i am getting 80 - 90MB/s which is what i would associate with a true reading for a gig connection..

 

 

So the question is, does anone know why i am getting slow network transfer speeds on the Wifi even when the Internet speed is faster than the transfer speed?

 

Wired speedtest

Wireless

 

Transfer file Wired

 

And then same file wireless.., any ideas?

 

 

[NelizMastr]

The odd thing about Wi-Fi is that its speed is somewhat misrepresented. For example, back in the 802.11g days, the theoretical 54Mbps speed only amounted to a 2MB/s transfer rate. Scaling that logic exactly to your Wi-Fi that would confirm about 10-11MB/s.

 

I guess there's more overhead due to a much higher likelihood of packet loss, so a lot of retransmitting is happing.

[Steve1978]

That's disappointing, I kind of hoped i was missing the obvious thing!