How do increase my LAN speed?

[PutUsernameHere]

My problem is that when I am streaming my Xbox to my PC, it is struggling with transmitting the whole image in full resolution. When I go to the information about my wifi from my PC, the speed hovers at about 150Mbps. I know that my router is capable of 3.2 Gbps so that probably isn't the bottleneck. What is causing the difference in speed and is there anything I can do to increase the wireless speed of my network? 

[zMeul]

you go wired

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its wifi

 

Use wired if you can.

 

Otherwise you need a new laptop wifi card or wifi ap.

[PutUsernameHere]

5 minutes ago, zMeul said:

you go wired

Yeah and I plan to do so, but why is the difference between the described transfer speed and the actual speed so great?

[Donut417]

10 minutes ago, PutUsernameHere said:

My problem is that when I am streaming my Xbox to my PC, it is struggling with transmitting the whole image in full resolution. When I go to the information about my wifi from my PC, the speed hovers at about 150Mbps. I know that my router is capable of 3.2 Gbps so that probably isn't the bottleneck. What is causing the difference in speed and is there anything I can do to increase the wireless speed of my network? 

Doesnt matter how fast your router is. If the Wifi card in your computer is only a 150Mbps N card then thats the speed. Your network works as fast as the slowest device. Be it your router or your wireless card. 

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, PutUsernameHere said:

Yeah and I plan to do so, but why is the difference between the described transfer speed and the actual speed so great?

router isn't everything, the XBox's WiFi card matters and the one on the PC

[PutUsernameHere]

2 minutes ago, zMeul said:

router isn't everything, the XBox's WiFi card matters and the one on the PC

Yeah it seems to be the Xbox's speed. I guess the only solution is to go wired. 

[jj9987]

11 hours ago, PutUsernameHere said:

My problem is that when I am streaming my Xbox to my PC, it is struggling with transmitting the whole image in full resolution. When I go to the information about my wifi from my PC, the speed hovers at about 150Mbps. I know that my router is capable of 3.2 Gbps so that probably isn't the bottleneck. What is causing the difference in speed and is there anything I can do to increase the wireless speed of my network? 

Regarding router capability - a lot of it is just marketing. 3.2 Gbps indicates total capability, however we don't know if it is whole router or just WiFi. And even then, the WiFi would have to be really the best case scenario to even get close to such speeds - all devices supporting MIMO, 5 GHz and being at very close distance with minimal interference.

 

You can try using 5 GHz network, if possible. If not, then wired is your only option.

[Wolfskie]

@jj9987, you're correct in the sense that it's just marketing, but 3.2gbps (or ac3200 as it is sometimes called) signifies 'total wireless throughput', that is, the router/ap transmits 3 bands at once, 1 at 2.4ghz and 2 at 5ghz with a theoretical 600+1300+1300 Mbps.

so, if you have a client that supports 802.11ac, has a 3x3x3 antenna configuration and is close to the router, you might, theoretically, get throughput close to 1300mbps from the client to the router and vice versa... real world performance is usually significantly lower.

[jj9987]

4 minutes ago, Wolfskie said:

@jj9987, you're correct in the sense that it's just marketing, but 3.2gbps (or ac3200 as it is sometimes called) signifies 'total wireless throughput', that is, the router/ap transmits 3 bands at once, 1 at 2.4ghz and 2 at 5ghz with a theoretical 600+1300+1300 Mbps.

so, if you have a client that supports 802.11ac, has a 3x3x3 antenna configuration and is close to the router, you might, theoretically, get throughput close to 1300mbps from the client to the router and vice versa... real world performance is usually significantly lower.

Thought so. Thanks for clearing it up