help with speeds

[CONQUEST98]

im not clued up on networking so im really out of my depth here. Ive been sent a wifi booster from virgin with a cat6 cable and in windows it lists it has 1Gbps yet when i check the speed on something like ookla im only getting like 80 Mpbs. im assuming this isnt right since the speeds dont match. if it isnt right does anyone know hot to help me with getting the right speeds?

[Guest]

Hi!

What is your home data plan?

Usually internal networks are much faster than your real internet speed. LAN: Local Area Network, at a speed of 1 Gbps means that devices inside your house can talk to each other with that speed, your outgoing traffic is dependant however by your ISP

[Windows7ge]

What wireless standard are you connecting using? 2.4GHz/5.0GHz? 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax? This will greatly impact the max throughput your devices can achieve.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

What wireless standard are you connecting using? 2.4GHz/5.0GHz? 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax? This will greatly impact the max throughput your devices can achieve.

I might be totally wrong, but i think Wifi 4 can only give you ~25Mb/s down, and Wifi 5 300 down. So my assumption is with an odd number like 80 the problem lies somewhere else.

[CONQUEST98]

1 minute ago, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

I might be totally wrong, but i think Wifi 4 can only give you ~25Mb/s down, and Wifi 5 300 down. So my assumption is with an odd number like 80 the problem lies somewhere else.

i tried ookla with my 5Ghz network and it ranges from 250 to 170 depending on time. my actual download in something like steam will sometimes reach 30+ Mbs 

[CONQUEST98]

8 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

What wireless standard are you connecting using? 2.4GHz/5.0GHz? 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax? This will greatly impact the max throughput your devices can achieve.

my 2.4Ghz is 802.11b/g/n mixed and the 5Ghz is 802.11a/n/ac mixed

[CONQUEST98]

9 minutes ago, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

Hi!

What is your home data plan?

Usually internal networks are much faster than your real internet speed. LAN: Local Area Network, at a speed of 1 Gbps means that devices inside your house can talk to each other with that speed, your outgoing traffic is dependant however by your ISP

i believe the plan is 500mbps so i understand i am not gonna get the full 1gbps but the 80 i do achieve is still too low

[Guest]

Alright correct me if I'm missing the point.

With wired connection you only get 80 Mb/s on a speed test, but the same speed test gives you 250ish Mb/s on WIFI.

Can you post screen shots with your speed test results? That is very strange behaviour and honestly I'm at a loss here.

[DarkEnergy]

This is slightly confusing. You mentioned you get around 170-250mbps on 5Ghz and steam reports around 30 mb/s. The steam reporting is in mb/s so it's the same speed that ookla is telling you. I'm assuming 80mbps is on 2.4Ghz? That would make sense, there's a lot of signals using that frequency and so your speed on 2.4 won't be good. I have similar results.

[Windows7ge]

7 minutes ago, CONQUEST98 said:

my 2.4Ghz is 802.11b/g/n mixed and the 5Ghz is 802.11a/n/ac mixed

Which standards are you connected using? Can you transfer files locally at full speed?

[CONQUEST98]

Just now, DarkEnergy said:

This is slightly confusing. You mentioned you get around 170-250mbps on 5Ghz and steam reports around mb/s. The steam reporting is in mb/s so it's the same speed that ookla is telling you. I'm assuming 80mbps is on 2.4Ghz? That would make sense, there's a lot of signals using that frequency and so your speed on 2.4 won't be good. I have similar results.

i understand my 2.4g signal will be much weaker then the 5g but im having a problem with the wired connection speed being much slower

[CONQUEST98]

6 minutes ago, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

Alright correct me if I'm missing the point.

With wired connection you only get 80 Mb/s on a speed test, but the same speed test gives you 250ish Mb/s on WIFI.

Can you post screen shots with your speed test results? That is very strange behaviour and honestly I'm at a loss here.

yeah 80mb/s on wired and currently around 160mb/s on 5Ghz wireless. top result is wired, second is 2Ghz and 3rd is 5ghz

[CONQUEST98]

4 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Which standards are you connected using? Can you transfer files locally at full speed?

not really sure what you mean by this sorry.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, CONQUEST98 said:

not really sure what you mean by this sorry.

Wifi 2,4 Ghz and Wifi 5Ghz are different standards 801.11ac is the old way of saying Wifi 5.

[CONQUEST98]

1 minute ago, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

Wifi 2,4 Ghz and Wifi 5Ghz are different standards 801.11ac is the old way of saying Wifi 5.

yeah i understand that and i understand the difference in speed between those two but why does my wired 1gb/s connection have the same speeds as the 2Ghz and not at least the 5

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, CONQUEST98 said:

yeah 80mb/s on wired and currently around 160mb/s on 5Ghz wireless. top result is wired, second is 2Ghz and 3rd is 5ghz

Result 1 and 2 look very simular. Are you 100% positive when you do the wired test, your WIFI is OFF?

 

[CONQUEST98]

1 minute ago, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

Result 1 and 2 look very simular. Are you 100% positive when you do the wired test, your WIFI is OFF?

 

i can do the tests again to make sure