it looks exactly like this except I have two antennae on it instead of one.
I was broke at the time and this was given to me as a gift. about 2 years ago. mind you I don’t use Wi-Fi all too often unless i’m on my phone. but I have a 100Mb/s download and 50Mb/s upload on wired. well I’m paying for that anyways.
On wireless I get 20Mb/s on the download and 16Mb/s on wireless?
Any reason for this? I’m quite sure my I’ve seen my Wi-Fi go much faster than this before. I used to use Steam In Home Streaming a while or so back. now i can’t. any way of fixing this?
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This is a 2.4Ghz router strictly.
I’m running on 802.11g only mode on the wireless settings and I’ve changed the signal channel and it somewhat improved it the speed but not by much.
I have 6 devices on the network
Also I have somewhat minor experience with networking hardware. all i know is what to turn on to get it working. I don’t know how to really optimize it if you will.
Could be some kind of interference (even though I know you changed channels) or the router itself isn't putting as much power in to the antennas. A friend of mine had that, after a few years their cheap router started losing coverage and replacing it fixed the issue.
I'd try running the speedtest over wifi when you're right next to the router.
what changed between when it was working to when it stopped? - new devices? change of AP position?
slow connections (ie devices that have a poor conneciton) will slow down everyone when in use
change to /n unless you have an old device that does not support /n
check the band is set to 40mhz wide
double check that it is just 6 devices connecting to it - & not the dodgy next door neighbour (who ran kali's fern cracker for the last 2 weeks to crack your password).
enable QoS, in home streaming will be UDP so if you can prioritze that type of traffic (depending on what you can do on the AP's config portal) & things should be a little better.
Get into the GUI of your router and check a few things. Is it A, B, G, N, or something mixed? Does the GUI say what SPEED it is using?
Also, test on more than one computer that has wireless connectivity as an option, by opening the Wi-Fi list in the System Tray, right the network YOU ARE CONNECTED TO and click "Status"
Another thing to check is the WIRELESS DEVICE on the computer itself, by going into DEVICE MANAGER, right click the device, click properties, and checking the ADVANCED tab to get an idea of what protocols it supports.
THEN.. There's a way to see what channels the neighbors are using, with the ANDROID app called "Wifi Analyzer" so you can pick a channel they aren't using.
There are also tools like inSSIDer that allow you to make sure that other APs are not overlapping too much, it can show you how many APs are using, say, ch.6 and how much overlap there is. This way, you can me sure than switching to ch.1 is a good or bad idea. Unfortunately, inSSIDer is no longer free.
you can not get higher than 24Mbps on wireless G (802.11G) maybe 30Mbps if you are lucky, that is the max real world throughput.
Source: installed and troubleshot internet had a lot of calls because people paying for 60 but only getting 24 on their old wireless g router, if you want faster speeds on the wifi you will need at least 802.11 n (wireless n). also if you might get better lan speeds with a gigabit router as well if that one isn't gigabit (1000Mbps) on the lan ports.
@ProSonicLive you can use Wifi Analyzer if you have android.
I had it on 802.11G mode. and i was getting 30 ish on the download and 30 ish on the upload. after switching to 802.11N mode It went from 40ish to 25 ish on the upload.
Give it a shot. Keep in mind that if you want close to wired speeds there are these three rules of thumb: 1. Test the internal network mostly, not going to the internet. 2. N-standard will never be as fast as wired. Wireless A/C is the first answer to that dilemma, with a new protocol replacing it next year 3. Wireless security adds an encryption/decryption process that wired does not. This will slow down ALL connections, including internet, regardless of WiFi or ISP bandwidth
And a super-geeky noteable: When Wireless A/C gets replaced, the people making the standard are hoping to make packet sizing & scheduling MATCH the same PROTOCOLS and standards as WIRED packets. Currently, All wireless communications use a different implementation of packet sizing / encapsulation
what does it say the connection speed is in the network manager? it is possible that the driver is not !00% up to snuff on linux. (idk what your wifi card is in your laptop) Do you have an android/apple smartphone that is fairly new? you can use speed test on that as well, they have an app for both apple and android.
[Edit] Check what @Urworstnit3m3r said. That's what I was talking about with the Windows screenshot I put up earlier. This is something I check on my machines after changing anything in my router.
cool you should be able to run the speedtest app on that, just to rule out that it is not the laptop causing the issue. Always if you can test with multiple devices.
