I want to measure the speed between my router and my various devices. They all seem to have slowed down so I checked my BB speed which showed 25ms latency, 35.1 Mbps download speed, 13.0 Mbps upload speed. Is there a way to test the speed that the transmission from the router to my laptop and is the router wifi a bit lacking?
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How do you measure the speed?
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How do you measure the speed?
Your test was roughly the same with a slightly higher upload speed. I am with BT, I think I will have to connect my laptop to the router with an ethernet connecion and see how that goes? That way I can test if it is wifi from router to laptop issue?
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How do you measure the speed?
Connecting my laptop directly to the router with an ethernet cable made no difference at all. It must be my Windows laptop crawling to a halt over time.
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How do you measure the speed?
The only way it can be 'slower' is if the data is being shared with other devices. You can access your router diagnostics (see the manual) to check all speeds and see a list of connected devices. It can be surprising to see how many connections there are on any system: we have tablets, mobile phones, TV's and laptops as well as PC's and printers - all in a small household of two people!
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How do you measure the speed?
I read washing machines, walls and other electrical equipment can slow down wi-fi. I try and use ethernet whenever I can, in fact, I have an ethernet connector into my laptop just now. I have 106MB speed on ethernet but about 40MB on wi-fi and I'm less than 8ft away from my router through a wall.
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How do you measure the speed?
Hello, my first question would be what are you trying to measure? Are you measuring the internet speed or your network speed?
Using something like speedtest.net or just type internet speed test in google will test your internet speed. To find out your maximum possible speed or internet plug your router into the master phone socket and then connect your laptop with a lead into the router and run one of the aforementioned tests. This will basically give you your maximum internet speed (not 100% but close enough).
Now in theory if you have good home network you should get the same internet speed wherever you run the test. This is especially true if you are talking about under 100Mbps speeds as anything bought in the last decade should have more than enough capacity for this (Wireless N in theory goes up to 300Mbps and AC 1300Mbps and wired will be fine). In fact if the network is good you will be able to transfer data at a far quicker rate than your internet connection.
To test your network speed you want to connect a device directly to the router with a wire. Then you take another device and transfer a file of a set size from one machine to the other and time it. You then use a calculation (Google will help) to work out your network speed. There are apps you can use to do this or you can use some built in CMD tools to work it our for you.
What I have said above may sound like semantics but it is not and is really important to understand. The only way you can improve your internet speed is to improve the package you are getting from your provider. Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) will be far quicker than standard Broadband or Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC). However if you internal network is poor then it does not matter if you improved your internet speed 10 fold and went from 35Mbps to 350Mbps, you wont see any difference in the end device as the limitation is not the internet.
From what you are saying it sounds like your problem is with your internal network. This can be improved in several ways, as said above wired will usually be far better than wireless. If your wireless signal is poor you can improve it by using a Mesh system or repeaters. It is also possible you are getting interference from other peoples Wifi. You can improve this by changing the channel used by your Wifi but you would need to download a scanning app to see what is being used in the area.
Hope this helps a bit :)
Using something like speedtest.net or just type internet speed test in google will test your internet speed. To find out your maximum possible speed or internet plug your router into the master phone socket and then connect your laptop with a lead into the router and run one of the aforementioned tests. This will basically give you your maximum internet speed (not 100% but close enough).
Now in theory if you have good home network you should get the same internet speed wherever you run the test. This is especially true if you are talking about under 100Mbps speeds as anything bought in the last decade should have more than enough capacity for this (Wireless N in theory goes up to 300Mbps and AC 1300Mbps and wired will be fine). In fact if the network is good you will be able to transfer data at a far quicker rate than your internet connection.
To test your network speed you want to connect a device directly to the router with a wire. Then you take another device and transfer a file of a set size from one machine to the other and time it. You then use a calculation (Google will help) to work out your network speed. There are apps you can use to do this or you can use some built in CMD tools to work it our for you.
What I have said above may sound like semantics but it is not and is really important to understand. The only way you can improve your internet speed is to improve the package you are getting from your provider. Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) will be far quicker than standard Broadband or Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC). However if you internal network is poor then it does not matter if you improved your internet speed 10 fold and went from 35Mbps to 350Mbps, you wont see any difference in the end device as the limitation is not the internet.
From what you are saying it sounds like your problem is with your internal network. This can be improved in several ways, as said above wired will usually be far better than wireless. If your wireless signal is poor you can improve it by using a Mesh system or repeaters. It is also possible you are getting interference from other peoples Wifi. You can improve this by changing the channel used by your Wifi but you would need to download a scanning app to see what is being used in the area.
Hope this helps a bit :)
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How do you measure the speed?
Thank you for that information, I think it is a combination of a lot of devices and my laptop being slow. I will check into it a bit further but as I have BT Halo I can call in a BT tech to have a look.
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