Probably a stupid bandwidth question

[BiteFilmsTech]

I have a question regarding home wifi bandwidth. See, our residence currently has 10Mbps (Bits not bytes) internet at our house. We live in a very rural area and that is the highest amount offered by any provider. It,s fine for Gaming as I get 49 ping usually on most games and that's fine enough for me. However, our bandwidth is literally garbage. If I were to let's say, open Twitter on my phone while playing a game such as Overwatch, my ping skyrockets to the hundreds. The slightest change in the Wi-fi will throw my computer off, and I've tried figuring out the problem myself, by checking my wifi card, checking distance, checking tethered vs wireless, checking with my internet provider (we actually got boosted speed ) and tons of other factors. I've com to the conclusion that our 8-year-old router just doesn't have enough bandwidth to support my household.

 

So my overly complicated question is, will a new and better router fix bandwidth, or is that capped like speed is by internet providers.

 

I know I can have the fastest router but if I am capped on speed it won't do much, does bandwidth have the same properties?

[Electronics Wizardy]

My guess is its your connections, not your router. Your capped by the isp not the router.

[BiteFilmsTech]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

My guess is its your connections, not your router. Your capped by the isp not the router.

So isp does cap bandwidth?

[AnonymousGuy]

It's likely your router is too old and slow to handle multiple clients well.

 

Buy a new one and return it if it doesn't fix your problem.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, BiteFilmsTech said:

So isp does cap bandwidth?

yep, if you want more speed you have to pay your isp more.

 

What reouter do you have?

[BiteFilmsTech]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

yep, if you want more speed you have to pay your isp more.

 

What reouter do you have?

I do not want more speed I want more bandwidth. I have a router that is 8 years old, I can't find any name for it as it was a stock century link router that's almost half my age. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, BiteFilmsTech said:

I do not want more speed I want more bandwidth. I have a router that is 8 years old, I can't find any name for it as it was a stock century link router that's almost half my age. 

In this use they mean the same thing. bandwidth is normally used for the max equipment can handle and your probably not reaching that on your router. What router do you have?

[BiteFilmsTech]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

In this use they mean the same thing. bandwidth is normally used for the max equipment can handle and your probably not reaching that on your router. What router do you have?

Like I said, I can't find any info on the router. All I know is that it's a stock home wifi router+modem from 2009. I've searched serial numbers, product pages (Wayback machine) and tons of other things but I cannot find the model I bought. I just now its the stock router gave from Century Link from 2009 for the first home router

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, BiteFilmsTech said:

Like I said, I can't find any info on the router. All I know is that it's a stock home wifi router+modem from 2009. I've searched serial numbers, product pages (Wayback machine) and tons of other things but I cannot find the model I bought. I just now its the stock router gave from Century Link from 2009 for the first home router

The router is probably not limiting the speed. You can test this by plugging your pc directly into the modem for a bit. But your probably isp limited.

[BiteFilmsTech]

I will give that a try, thanks.

[Donut417]

Most likely you have a shit Modem/router combo given to you by your ISP. Do you have 1 box or 2 for internet. If its one, then its a modem/router. You have DSL, DSL is limited in what it can do. While it could be your router is old as shit and is giving up the ghost. How for sure are you that your ISP actually provides the speed your paying for? 

[mynameisjuan]

You have DSL with shit copper. Basically when modem send data they have error correction built in because DSL by nature is not stable and most the time the connection is set to interleaved with INP which have an auto 30-40ms extra. 

 

If you call your ISP and ask them to switch from interleaved to fast you will see steady pings from 5-10ms and will not spike until you saturate the 10mbps which at that point if buffer related. If you want more bandwidth you could only go to a max of 20mbps usually, but its all dependent on distance.