WIFI Stuff

[TheProPizza]

If i can't get an ethernet cable from my router to my pc, is there a faster way to connect than wifi? I have gigabit connection and get around 300mbs on my pc over wifi.

 

[johnt]

You can try ethernet over power adapters, but they are slower than your wifi connection. Latency is usually lower though.

[DrMacintosh]

10 minutes ago, TheProPizza said:

I have gigabit connection and get around 300mbs on my pc over wifi.

Hello, first all, 300Mbps is not horrible, you would understandable want more on a gigabit connection. 

 

What router do you have? Does it have the ability to mesh with other nodes? Does the layout of your home make a mesh system possible?

 

I don't know if you have a budget, but if you can afford it, I recommend this nice mesh wifi 6 system: 

https://www.linksys.com/dual-band-mesh-wifi-6-system-2-pack/MX2002.html

 

[Takumidesh]

41 minutes ago, TheProPizza said:

If i can't get an ethernet cable from my router to my pc, is there a faster way to connect than wifi? I have gigabit connection and get around 300mbs on my pc over wifi.

 

300mb sounds like a router limitation.

Check the docs on your router for it's max wireless speed.

[Bdavis]

MoCA adapters would work if you have an existing coax line. Otherwise you either buy faster wifi gear or find a way to run a cable.

[Takumidesh]

1 hour ago, DrMacintosh said:

What router do you have? Does it have the ability to mesh with other nodes?

This isn't really a 'feature' you can accomplish this by disabling DHCP on router #2 and setting the SSID and pass the same as router #1

 

I literally just did this with an old tp-link cheapo wifi router along with unifi APs and there is no problems.

[vivek.ns]

On 11/17/2022 at 12:22 AM, TheProPizza said:

If i can't get an ethernet cable from my router to my pc, is there a faster way to connect than wifi? I have gigabit connection and get around 300mbs on my pc over wifi.

 

Check your link speed in WIFI properties if you see Link speed more than 1200Mbps you will not have trouble getting Gb speeds. 

 

If not you can upgrade WIFI system (both Router & Client) to WIFI 6 which can transfer higher bandwidth (More than Gb speeds). 

[Falcon1986]

15 hours ago, vivek.ns said:

Check your link speed in WIFI properties if you see Link speed more than 1200Mbps you will not have trouble getting Gb speeds. 

If you believe this, you're falling for advertised claims. Link speed does not always equal real world transfer speeds. You would have to be in a perfect WiFi environment to even achieve close to gigabit speeds. I'm not saying it doesn't happen; people have experienced short bursts but they are never sustained.

 

15 hours ago, vivek.ns said:

If not you can upgrade WIFI system (both Router & Client) to WIFI 6 which can transfer higher bandwidth (More than Gb speeds).

This is another false expectation. The "gigabit speeds" promised by WiFi 6 are not those between a single WiFi 6 client and a compatible AP; it's related to the aggregate throughput of the antennae between multiple concurrent client connections.

 

If you're able to get 500-700Mbps on speed tests to a single wireless client over a gigabit internet connection, that's actually quite good.

[vivek.ns]

1 hour ago, Falcon1986 said:

If you believe this, you're falling for advertised claims. Link speed does not always equal real world transfer speeds. You would have to be in a perfect WiFi environment to even achieve close to gigabit speeds. I'm not saying it doesn't happen; people have experienced short bursts but they are never sustained.

 

This is another false expectation. The "gigabit speeds" promised by WiFi 6 are not those between a single WiFi 6 client and a compatible AP; it's related to the aggregate throughput of the antennae between multiple concurrent client connections.

 

If you're able to get 500-700Mbps on speed tests to a single wireless client over a gigabit internet connection, that's actually quite good.

Okay being new here I might not have used the right terminology. What I tried to explain was if the throughput of the WIFI is the bottleneck and we cant get a ethernet cable to the host device, we have to have a better wireless network which can provide the through put. 

 

I hope you will agree with me in receiving 650Mbps over WIFI when you have a Gb connection is better that 300Mbps with a Gb internet connection. I mention 650Mbps because thats the average I get in Iperf3 in my Laptop with AX201, using a Raspberry Pi4 as a server wired to my Router. AX201 shows the link speed around 1733/1733 from where I am seated, which is 5 meters away from router in line of sight.