collector930
Occasional Visitor
Hi,
I found something interesting during my recent upgrade from 500Mb/s to 1Gb/s fiber internet, and wonder if anyone has similar experience: fast ethernet but Wi-Fi speed. After the upgrade, I bought 2 new Wi-Fi 6/6E routers from Asus and TP-Link and returned them, since I was only getting < 400Mb/s over Wi-Fi, but 940Mb/s over ethernet, because I read many online and YouTube reviews that showed Wi-Fi speedtest results of 750-900Mb/s for those 2 routers. The routers were put in AP mode, so no QoS or Traffic Analysis problems.
I wonder if anyone bought and returned routers like me because of apparent slow Wi-Fi, but fast ethernet, speed.
Long story short: I think speedtest apps and websites were the problem. I tested more than a dozen iOS speedtest apps and more than a dozen speedtest websites, and all of them showed < 400Mb/s Wi-Fi speed, for iPhone 12 Pro Max and 4 Windows 10/11 AC/AX laptops (80Mhz), except for 2 apps and 2 websites.
After this discovery, I can get Wi-Fi download speeds of 750-850 Mb/s (80Mhz), comparable to those I get from local speedtests like iperf3 and OpenSpeedTest, from my Asus XD6.
But I still don't know why there is such a big difference in speedtest app/website results, i.e., from 400Mb/s to 800Mb/s. Maybe someone knows and can comment.
FYI. Speedtest apps: SpeedSmart by VeeApps and HighSpeedInternet by Clear Link Tech. Websites: speakeasy.net/speedtest and highspeedinternet.com/tools/speed-test/xfinity.
I found something interesting during my recent upgrade from 500Mb/s to 1Gb/s fiber internet, and wonder if anyone has similar experience: fast ethernet but Wi-Fi speed. After the upgrade, I bought 2 new Wi-Fi 6/6E routers from Asus and TP-Link and returned them, since I was only getting < 400Mb/s over Wi-Fi, but 940Mb/s over ethernet, because I read many online and YouTube reviews that showed Wi-Fi speedtest results of 750-900Mb/s for those 2 routers. The routers were put in AP mode, so no QoS or Traffic Analysis problems.
I wonder if anyone bought and returned routers like me because of apparent slow Wi-Fi, but fast ethernet, speed.
Long story short: I think speedtest apps and websites were the problem. I tested more than a dozen iOS speedtest apps and more than a dozen speedtest websites, and all of them showed < 400Mb/s Wi-Fi speed, for iPhone 12 Pro Max and 4 Windows 10/11 AC/AX laptops (80Mhz), except for 2 apps and 2 websites.
After this discovery, I can get Wi-Fi download speeds of 750-850 Mb/s (80Mhz), comparable to those I get from local speedtests like iperf3 and OpenSpeedTest, from my Asus XD6.
But I still don't know why there is such a big difference in speedtest app/website results, i.e., from 400Mb/s to 800Mb/s. Maybe someone knows and can comment.
FYI. Speedtest apps: SpeedSmart by VeeApps and HighSpeedInternet by Clear Link Tech. Websites: speakeasy.net/speedtest and highspeedinternet.com/tools/speed-test/xfinity.
