Ethernet vs WI-FI

[Supercian411]

Im curently using a laptop for everything but the connnection is slow and not sure whether to contiueor get a 10 meter cable around my room but my concern is there being isues with signal degradation beacuese of the lenth. also the router is about 2 meters away but for ethernet the cable would have to go around my room. any advice welcome.

[DarkEnergy]

Have you tested if you have a much better connection to the Router using ethernet? If so, go with the cable. You shouldn't get much if any signal degradation at that length. 

[Kickflapper]

Ethernet all the way the  signal degradation will be very little. Also just test the speed online with both http://www.att.com/speedtest/

[Supercian411]

Just now, DarkEnergy said:

Have you tested if you have a much better connection to the Router using ethernet? If so, go with the cable. You shouldn't get much if any signal degradation at that length. 

I have tested with a steam download 

wifi - about 300-400 mbs

Ethernet - 600 mbs

[Moonzy]

2 meter but poor wifi signal? thats not right lol

most probably your network speed itself is slow

[Enderman]

unless your cable is 100+ m there will be no degradation

[LAwLz]

A 10 meter cable won't be any problem. It's not until you start getting 100 meter cables that you will run into issues related to length (or if you buy a really shitty cable that's like 50 meters).

 

If the router is only 2 meters and you are still getting poor Internet connection wirelessly then I recommend you troubleshoot your wireless before starting to run cables. Try changing wireless channel, try restarting it, try with a different computer, move it around and see if that helps. Using a cable might solve the issue, and I would recommend you use a cable whenever it is possible, but you should probably try and get your WiFi to work before doing that.

 

2 minutes ago, Supercian411 said:

I have tested with a steam download 

wifi - about 300-400 mbs

Ethernet - 600 mbs

Ehm... 300Mbps over wireless? That is by no means slow. Anyway, it will probably be pretty hard to get faster WiFi speeds than that, so if you want more you will probably need a cable.

[Supercian411]

Just now, Moonzy said:

2 meter but poor wifi signal? thats not right lol

most probably your network speed itself is slow

its not necessarily a bad connections its just much slower with wifi

[DarkEnergy]

1 minute ago, Supercian411 said:

I have tested with a steam download 

wifi - about 300-400 mbs

Ethernet - 600 mbs

I suppose if you really wanted wifi, you could get a wireless usb dongle. Why do you need the benefit of 600mb over 400 anyway? Do you have, like, 5 instances of porn torrenting at once or something? 

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Supercian411 said:

its not necessarily a bad connections its just much slower with wifi

whats the connection speed like?

if you have 100mbps internet bandwidth then i suggest you just get ethernet `-`

[Supercian411]

Just now, DarkEnergy said:

I suppose if you really wanted wifi, you could get a wireless usb dongle. Why do you need the benefit of 600mb over 400 anyway? Do you have, like, 5 instances of porn torrenting at once or something? 

Im also going to be streaming from my xbox and with wifi it was laggy as hell. and thank you for helping me as all i wanted to know was signal degradation issues but it will fine hopfuly

[DarkEnergy]

According to this article, and I'm assuming it's using the ac standard, you're probably just at the limit of the latest wifi standard speeds. And that's based on "real" world speeds. 

[LynxThe1st]

9 minutes ago, Supercian411 said:

I have tested with a steam download 

wifi - about 300-400 mbs

Ethernet - 600 mbs

mate

mate

how the fuck do you get 300-400mbs on wifi

im stuck here with fucking 13kbps

[cpuwaiy]

The real problem with wifi is all devices on wifi are considered one port.  With wired your xbox will be on one port, your laptop will be on another so there is less contention.  I had a ps3 that i connected wirelessly that was very slow online. Once i plugged in it was much faster. 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

16 minutes ago, Supercian411 said:

I have tested with a steam download 

wifi - about 300-400 mbs

Ethernet - 600 mbs

Lucky butt. Im lucky if I can get 10 Mb/s

 

[LynxThe1st]

Just now, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Lucky butt. Im lucky if I can get 10 Mb/s

 

you are lucky

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Just now, LynxThe1st said:

you are lucky

Lol I know what it feels like

[Tosa]

The signal in a copper cable won't decay before it has traveled 100 meters, in which case it pretty much vanishes entirely. I guess the same goes for ethernet cables.