@@DJH4521Buying a good WiFi card, staying as close to the router as possible, getting good antennas... The best option is always going to be to use Ethernet, though.
Being a fiber field tech I can tell you that using Ookla speed test with and without is a better decision. Run a trace route through the command prompt to compare the path your data takes through your ISP local and distant router pathing. Make sure the server it pings to matches your local ISP server. Then compare once more. This will give you and idea of how long it takes for your data to travel from place to place. Comparing them is such a useful tool to ensure your ISP isn't purposely throttling your speeds. Looking at you AT&T. >->
What? I mean yea tracing is a good troubleshooting tool to see the path your packets are taking, which is far more useful supporting large complicated networks. For a home all you'll really see is which hops your taking to whichever service you run ICMP tests on. It'll help determine, if you are having an issue, if it's inside your ISP or past them on the backbone. Tracing really isn't gonna do anything to inform you about your speeds or throttling... and once you get a gig+ FTTH, the hardest part is finding any test server that's capable of providng you that much bandwidth for testing... latency, loss, jitter, priority routes, all much different and usually more important than simple throughput. And with your fiber, are we talking dedicated runs from the COLO, or GPON or another shared line? Plenty more bandwidth than a 32down/4channel up cable, but still sharing that line with /32 /64 or even more neighbors.
Spectrum is pretty bad with the highs and lows. Definitely fluctuates constantly. If I play warzone I start a match usually with a ping of about 46ms and in the middle of the match my shit goes from 46-75-120 it's ridiculous
I feel like the RUclipsr should have done a lan test and clarify that eliminating the only network bottleneck you can do is the connect between your router and PC/Console
My man reason why it go’s at max and then go’s down is because you are or overloading your router or there are other Devices on your network that have a more important task to do 😂 but the first one is realy common
@@cosmicwarrior1 i am not saying he is stupid, i say its most common, he askes for it i suggest, and i am verry sorry i cant speak english verry well 🐝
The router isn't overloaded. The connection draws the full speed for that session in-between other connections. It's also the router... routing those speeds are hundreds megabits. Most modern routers are layer 2 AND layer 3 so it also switches on a wired and wireless level. This is important because each connection can possibly push throughput to a gig. We don't know what else is running on his network but safe to say he isn't transmitting more than background data on multiple devices... that's not going to take much and max the connection. The reason it goes down is more than likely server speed/QoS, the home networks routes and QoS/ how the OS is handling the transfer of data AND he's not using a good speed test app. Google is 🐕 💩 for speed tests (Former network engineer)
If you are having issues with speed on ethernet, upgrade your cable to a cat6 or 8 and dump the 5e (do not use cheap dollar store cables). I know there is very little difference with 5e and 6, but it is worth a try. Also try resetting your router as the buffer may not correctly flush when using ethernet. It will fill up and tank once full. If this happens on all wired connections, it is most likely the router.
i have a long cat 5e ethernet at home XD and i used it for my old laptop i was installing an operating system (yes linux and it was ubuntu studio thats why it froze when i wanted to connect to wifi but thats ok for me since i am testing linux on it) and i had to use it but ill search for a cat 6 if i have at home and the long one isnt really needed since it needed a shorter one
Disable energy efficient features for the ethernet such as "gigabit lite", "green ethernet", "power saving mode" and make sure your MTU is calculated correctly
I have Wifi6. I upgraded to a Wifi6E card in my computer after doing a speed test with the old one. The old card didn't do wifi6 and I was getting around 250-280Mbps with it. I put in the new Wifi6E card and I was getting 600s, 700s and up to 800s in Mbps with the new card. I also did a comparison test between the Wifi6E card and ethernet cable and the wifi card was up there with the ethernet cable speeds.
I did the same too, upgraded to 6E and very good increase over 6. Had to buy a 6E router but worth it. … bought the new Google Wi-Fi 6E setup and pricing good.
It may be the packet length and what you send to test the speed. Usually they suffer internal fermentation where a small payload, say a byte or two, require a kilobyte long packet 😬
@@wayland7150 facts people be like I got 1,000 Mbps internet. I would be like prove it do a speed test and they only get like 10 even tho they pay for a lot more.
@@Zeb-nh6hj Eh I pay for 1000mbps and I got 1000mbps. I live in thailand and 1000mbps is considered a standard for my ISP infact you can't even get anything below 100mbps from where I live.
@@Zeb-nh6hj Well no good testing gigabit Internet over WiFi. It was a bit pointless because the up speed was only 36mbps. You want it fast in both directions to use it for anything practical like working from home. Otherwise you may as well have Internet that's 70mbps both ways. Much more useful.
@@arranmc182 it costs like $40-50 for me to get 40 down and 10 up lol what are you on about? 950 and down 800 up for a quarter of the price is not "shit"
Well regardless if you use Wi-Fi or Ethernet you can only ever be as fast as your router connection to your ISP. Inside your home from device to device your Ethernet connection is going to be in the gigabits but once it hits the router you won't be getting that. So as long as your WiFi is faster then your connection to your ISP you really will never see any issues with speed on WiFi vs Ethernet. The problem you can have with WiFi however is interference from other signals.So for stability Ethernet is always preferable but if you can not run a direct line to your router, modern WiFi is fine.
Great video. My two cents is that the actual speed is one side of the full picture. Although, the Ethernet speeds being slowest is probably just an outlier. However, you do want to consider the ping and latency numbers as well for all 3 situations. Generally a wired connection has the lowest ping and latency and that makes all the difference in the world.
It’s not about the speed, it’s about consistency. The ping is more important tant anything else. If the ping spikes you’re gonna experience lags in games.
Always use the antennae that comes with your motherboard, otherwise its not just wifi range that's going to suffer. Bluetooth range will suffer as well.
Speed isnt the only thing ethernet gives u ethernets stability and ping is far better than wifi. U can literally spot the difference with your eyes when u r playing games like valorant
I think is because your cable is "old". What I mean is that there are many generations of cable. Is like an ssd with pci Gen 3 or 4 but in this case it's called cat. The older generations like cat.4 have slow speeds but the newer Cat.8 are very fast. The generation of the cable matters
Biggest difference your completely for getting is duplex. Yes if your downloading one thing it doesn't matter, but if your gaming while on discord with or without webcam and downloading somthing I'd rather have cable then wifi
This puts things into perspective, I recently got an ethernet cable and i had 600+ download and upload speed and i was like “is this good? i think its good”
Personally it's more of not if wifi is faster than Ethernet, but that Ethernet tends to be more stable. You don't get the lag and packet loss you do with wireless.
It depends on your PC and router bandwidth. If that's a 1 or 2.5GB end to end then you've got a problem. Wireless can easily beat a 100mbps Ethernet connection in terms of transfer. Latency is a different story.
if wifi beats ethernet at download and upload speed, then the cable could probably be cat3 or cat5, or maybe the ethernet cable is connected to an extender, there is literally no way it would be because the ethernet port speed is limited to 100 because his speed is already reaching higher than 100mbps
Use a better more reliable site for internet speeds, and you must remember WiFi isn't always going to stay consistent, especially considering bandwidth and high traffic of ur internet being used (wherever this place is)
As a radio technician, and someone who studies radio frequencies I can tell you in some cases depending on the RF the antenna I assume uses VHF or UHF in most cases it’s faster than hard wiring, the fastest your gonna get would be fiber optic cables.
Hey man, I’m far from my router, I don’t wanna use a Ethernet cable throughout my house, what would you recommend for the best connection? (I have ATAT WiFi)
From what i know in my personal experience, ethernet is more consistent, not faster. So pick which you like most, wireless convenience or good ol cable mess across the room.
Bro I just got a new pc and I was wondering what those little sticks were. My internet was SO SLOW until I saw this and realized they were extenders. Thank you so much
Ethernet might be capped so your wifi can pump more waves out preset up like that, most likely from the manufacturer thinking most users need wifi over wired. Just a guess really I don’t understand internet very well.
At least from experience, in the local stores around here, almost all wifi cards are ass, one even almost broke my pc with constant blue screens and, overall, horrible performance
Wi-Fi is just as fast as ethernet as long as you’re close enough to the router. The point of ethernet is to reduce ping it also helps maintain top speed over long distance
Some internet companies will “bottleneck” your internet. Only those who keep close eye on their speeds notice. Companies do this to charge for higher speeds when you’re actually getting 1/2.
What else is attached to the router? Some routers have independent Gb Ethernet ports and some have a shared Gb over the ports especially on the default routers from the ISP. I would check what your network is capable of before testing your computer’s connection so you know what to expect.
And here's me, sitting on my 2mb per second wifi because the fibre cable that will give me speeds of at least 100mg per second stops at the pole outside my house with with they want £700 to simply string an extra line from the box. If I do that I'd be paying for everyone else to have fibre as well but they only have to pay £50 to have their line attached
Just built my first pc and was wondering why my WiFi was so shitty. Come to find out I never installed the antennas my motherboard came with!! Rookie mistake lol my connection went from 40mbs to 250mbs instantly after installing the antennas 👍🏼
As a network engineer. Speed and latency are two different things. WiFi can also be fast but drop packets. Ethernet is always the way to go if possible. Unless you use cat5 or something ancient. Modern cat6 is best.
service provider Engineer here , things that can cause your wifi to be faster than your Ethernet could be many things from cable type , Cat 5 , Cat 5E can cause this sometimes , thats why Cat 6 and 6 E is a go to. other things are perhaps interference! belive it or not , UTP cable is suseptable to this , thats why STP cable exists (Shielded tangled pair) and can reduce the speed so can the mother boards port can affect this , maybe there is some wierd stuff going on at a software level that limits it sometimes , that part im not too sure Wifi 5.0Ghz is a amazing tech and i absolutly love its power and speed tbh , its really really good , perhaps your running your 5.0Ghz on a VERY high Mhz frequency which gives it much more bandwidth and perhaps it has MIMO tech , who knows
At my home (and in my country), we have the optic fiber. So, with Wi-Fi, we can make 150-200 Mb/s download and upload. But with ethernet cable, we have almost 1 Gb/s download and 600 Mb/s upload. I think it depends from your country.
As a few other commenters have mentioned this test needs to be performed using averages in order to get a real answer because wifi signal always varies
There's cables for each internet speed threshold, meaning that, the more powerful cable, the more speed you will get, each type has a max data transfer, that's why it's spiking like that. Also test atleast 3-4 times
Speed isn't really the problem. It is consistency. The quality of internet flow to your computer matters most when we are talking about gaming or any other real time activity. If all you are doing is consuming social media or netflix wifi is fine. But if you are gaming you want the best connection possible which will always be a hard connection.
Speed isn’t what it effects if u have the right router and the right adapter. The latency and stability is worse and other stuff can interfere with it. That is what matters.
My original antennas had a bad connection with my card and it really effected the performance of my WiFi and Bluetooth. Bluetooth was very noticeable as the signal would cut out with slight movement. Replaced the antennas and I now have full WiFi and Bluetooth strength.
It can if you have the right router and stuff. Like I have spectrum and I get 1gig download and upload on wired and Wi-Fi but I get less ping on Wi-Fi and more on Ethernet. It’s weird. But most companies are trying to go “wireless” and they purposely make Ethernet slower
When conducting these types of experiments it’s always important to have a good sample size. Also name your equipment, the equipment you have + your service speed determines how fast your internet is. Example all my network equipment has the ability to transfer 10G, but my ISP service is only 600 Down, 30 UP. My APs are rated for 250MBPS. So on ethernet with CAT6E my PC gets 650 Mbps to the internet, ~2GBps on my local network between my servers because my motherboard supports up to 2.5GB internet. Generally wired will always be faster and more stable.
BTW they are NOT Extenders they are Antenna's, externders are a device used to take in WiFi signal and rebroadcast them, if you cant evenm get the basics righty dont bother
I get around 900Mbps to 950Mbps speeds on ethernet with AT&T which is incredible speeds but they don't offer these speeds for home internet anymore. I was one of the last homes to get these speeds offered to them!
In a real world scenario, depends, but mostly no. And it looks like you only tested it once (probably). Just like a CPU, it needs to maintain a temperature for it to not throttle
You did one test on something that varies. Do them tests 10 times each and calculate the average to have an actually speaking result.
Use local network speed instead of internet as well
@@Rugg-qk4pl it makes sense to use the internet for the speed test because it showcases the speed in a "real world" scenario. You get me?
@@exist5657 only if you have fast internet. Even wifi 5 goes faster than this guy's internet.
@@Rugg-qk4pl also WiFi ax or greater
That would be fun, good idea 👍
You should probably test a few times, wifi physically cannot be faster than ethernet unless the cable is damaged which may be the issue
Is there a way to make wifi faster or close enough like Ethernet?
@@DJH4521Buying a good WiFi card, staying as close to the router as possible, getting good antennas...
The best option is always going to be to use Ethernet, though.
With wifi 6 and low rssi (dB, signal) possibly. Depends on what your icing to test... he should cover that.
That’s a great idea we will try a few more tests. You are right, wifi can never be faster 😂😡
@@GamerTechToronto That's not necessarily true.
Being a fiber field tech I can tell you that using Ookla speed test with and without is a better decision. Run a trace route through the command prompt to compare the path your data takes through your ISP local and distant router pathing. Make sure the server it pings to matches your local ISP server. Then compare once more. This will give you and idea of how long it takes for your data to travel from place to place. Comparing them is such a useful tool to ensure your ISP isn't purposely throttling your speeds. Looking at you AT&T. >->
ok but ok o-o
What? I mean yea tracing is a good troubleshooting tool to see the path your packets are taking, which is far more useful supporting large complicated networks. For a home all you'll really see is which hops your taking to whichever service you run ICMP tests on. It'll help determine, if you are having an issue, if it's inside your ISP or past them on the backbone. Tracing really isn't gonna do anything to inform you about your speeds or throttling... and once you get a gig+ FTTH, the hardest part is finding any test server that's capable of providng you that much bandwidth for testing... latency, loss, jitter, priority routes, all much different and usually more important than simple throughput. And with your fiber, are we talking dedicated runs from the COLO, or GPON or another shared line? Plenty more bandwidth than a 32down/4channel up cable, but still sharing that line with /32 /64 or even more neighbors.
Spectrum is pretty bad with the highs and lows. Definitely fluctuates constantly. If I play warzone I start a match usually with a ping of about 46ms and in the middle of the match my shit goes from 46-75-120 it's ridiculous
These "tech" people don't even know what the hell a trace route even is. Don't bother. 😂
I got taught this in computer science and I don’t think the average joe can do that
It's actually a software limit on bandwidth. Change your internet settings for specifically on your device manager under advanced settings.
Whats the name of the setting?
i have about 15mbps for download but when i use ethernel i get inly about 1 to 3 as a max
(15 mbps for ps4 phone everything tried it in all of em )
What setting
@@SeanBonJoviiispeed & duplix set it to 1gb
@@JavierGonzalez-de7ey..
Me with 10 MBPS download:
👁️👄👁️
me with 500 down:
👁️👄👁️
With Ethernet I get 10mbps, with wi-fi it's less than 2mbps
Me with 900 mbps 👁️ 👄 👁️
Me with 200,000 TB/s down: 💪😆
bro I have 0.22
Impressive, now let's see Paul Allen's wifi-ethernet comparison.
Look at the subtle off speed. Oh my god, it even reaches 1 GiB
Latency matters more than bandwidth most days unless a new massive update needs downloading.
I first only used wifi for my fc, but i noticed that its really inconsistend... it was fixt using ethernet
Ye same here.
Yeah Wi Fi for me gets me stuttering in certain games. Ping is fine at one moment then crazy spike the next.
Do you know any good Ethernet cable extenders that would help me speed my WiFi up
I use wifi
You might need higher quality Ethernet cable, it matter a lot
I feel like the RUclipsr should have done a lan test and clarify that eliminating the only network bottleneck you can do is the connect between your router and PC/Console
My man reason why it go’s at max and then go’s down is because you are or overloading your router or there are other Devices on your network that have a more important task to do 😂 but the first one is realy common
Bro tries telling him he’s stupid when he misspells really😂
@@cosmicwarrior1 they missed an l tf
@@cosmicwarrior1 he is still right also people can miss type things
@@cosmicwarrior1 i am not saying he is stupid, i say its most common, he askes for it i suggest, and i am verry sorry i cant speak english verry well 🐝
The router isn't overloaded. The connection draws the full speed for that session in-between other connections. It's also the router... routing those speeds are hundreds megabits. Most modern routers are layer 2 AND layer 3 so it also switches on a wired and wireless level. This is important because each connection can possibly push throughput to a gig.
We don't know what else is running on his network but safe to say he isn't transmitting more than background data on multiple devices... that's not going to take much and max the connection. The reason it goes down is more than likely server speed/QoS, the home networks routes and QoS/ how the OS is handling the transfer of data AND he's not using a good speed test app. Google is 🐕 💩 for speed tests
(Former network engineer)
If you are having issues with speed on ethernet, upgrade your cable to a cat6 or 8 and dump the 5e (do not use cheap dollar store cables). I know there is very little difference with 5e and 6, but it is worth a try. Also try resetting your router as the buffer may not correctly flush when using ethernet. It will fill up and tank once full. If this happens on all wired connections, it is most likely the router.
i have a long cat 5e ethernet at home XD and i used it for my old laptop i was installing an operating system (yes linux and it was ubuntu studio thats why it froze when i wanted to connect to wifi but thats ok for me since i am testing linux on it) and i had to use it but ill search for a cat 6 if i have at home and the long one isnt really needed since it needed a shorter one
Disable energy efficient features for the ethernet such as "gigabit lite", "green ethernet", "power saving mode" and make sure your MTU is calculated correctly
I have Wifi6. I upgraded to a Wifi6E card in my computer after doing a speed test with the old one. The old card didn't do wifi6 and I was getting around 250-280Mbps with it. I put in the new Wifi6E card and I was getting 600s, 700s and up to 800s in Mbps with the new card. I also did a comparison test between the Wifi6E card and ethernet cable and the wifi card was up there with the ethernet cable speeds.
I did the same too, upgraded to 6E and very good increase over 6. Had to buy a 6E router but worth it. … bought the new Google Wi-Fi 6E setup and pricing good.
i also did the same because i couldnt use a lan cable i used the new intel wifi 6 ax solution and its way faster than any wifi standart i saw
Any tips on speed? Getting 3.5 MBPS with a gaming router and a fast ethernet cable.
Edit: WiFi 6 btw
It may be the packet length and what you send to test the speed. Usually they suffer internal fermentation where a small payload, say a byte or two, require a kilobyte long packet 😬
Bro got the cat2 ethernet 💀
Also spread the antenas out a little. It catches more wifi, i did it on my pc and got close to 500mgps
Bro I’d die to have that download speed 😭
We had 550mbps but it was with a crappy company. Changed it for 60mbps Internet and it much better.
*me with 2.5 gbps*
@@wayland7150 facts people be like I got 1,000 Mbps internet. I would be like prove it do a speed test and they only get like 10 even tho they pay for a lot more.
@@Zeb-nh6hj Eh I pay for 1000mbps and I got 1000mbps. I live in thailand and 1000mbps is considered a standard for my ISP infact you can't even get anything below 100mbps from where I live.
@@Zeb-nh6hj Well no good testing gigabit Internet over WiFi. It was a bit pointless because the up speed was only 36mbps. You want it fast in both directions to use it for anything practical like working from home. Otherwise you may as well have Internet that's 70mbps both ways. Much more useful.
Laughs (with 950 download and 800 upload ) for 10$ a month #romanianinternet 😂
That's crazy, I had no idea Romanian internet was so amazing for that cheap.
WTF not even symmetrical speeds thats shit internet even if its cheap
@@arranmc182 Omg!!! my Cheerios aren't all of the same radius!!! I'm going to file a class action lawsuit!
@@arranmc182 it costs like $40-50 for me to get 40 down and 10 up lol what are you on about? 950 and down 800 up for a quarter of the price is not "shit"
It's not that cheap here but 30€ for 1000/1000 fiber and 30€ for unlimited 5g mobile is not bad huh
Those extenders are actually antennas and they should ALWAYS be mounted otherwise it could fry your mtb's wifi/bluetooth and you get garbage range.
Well regardless if you use Wi-Fi or Ethernet you can only ever be as fast as your router connection to your ISP. Inside your home from device to device your Ethernet connection is going to be in the gigabits but once it hits the router you won't be getting that. So as long as your WiFi is faster then your connection to your ISP you really will never see any issues with speed on WiFi vs Ethernet. The problem you can have with WiFi however is interference from other signals.So for stability Ethernet is always preferable but if you can not run a direct line to your router, modern WiFi is fine.
Me with 5 download and 0.3 upload:
I feel for you brother that’s how I was at one point. Luckily now I have an average of 90 download and 80 upload
Depending on location, good internet only costs 50-100 dollars a month. I pay 50 for 600 Mbps download
@@dappermacaroon7556 my internet cost 100
I have the same Ethernet cable, pretty sure it's a cat 5 or 6
it depends. if your wifi supports 5ghz wifi and it's faster than ethernet cable, your pc ethernet might be limited.
Great video. My two cents is that the actual speed is one side of the full picture. Although, the Ethernet speeds being slowest is probably just an outlier. However, you do want to consider the ping and latency numbers as well for all 3 situations. Generally a wired connection has the lowest ping and latency and that makes all the difference in the world.
It’s not about the speed, it’s about consistency. The ping is more important tant anything else. If the ping spikes you’re gonna experience lags in games.
Gotta love wifi in Australia with our 20 download speed
It’s so shit
Always use the antennae that comes with your motherboard, otherwise its not just wifi range that's going to suffer. Bluetooth range will suffer as well.
Use aluminum foil wrapped around the cards yellow screws and it’s the exact same as antennas for 50 cents
me with my fibre 3mbps 😩
bro what?
@@XSanity. yes bro. tht the cheapest fibre plan. $94 for 30mbps
Damn the cheapest fiber plan we have is 25$ speed ranging from 50-75mbps, with unlimited landline calls.
Your internet provider is such a scam
Wow, that's too fast! It's 100x faster than mine at home.
Seriously? I have 650mbps
@@macheetos18 i get 7 or 15 on good days
4 on good day
@@macheetos18 me too
900mbps
U need a good ethernet cable 👍
Have you tried replacing the Motherboard?
Bro is using cavemen internet 💀
I have 20mbps wdym
2mbps is the average across the world, anything above 20mbps is considered fast and 50mbps super fast
I have 4mbps💀
I have 2mbps lmao. I think he's fine
I got over 800mbs... lmfao just ran a speed test got 841.82mbs 🤣
I recently bought the Aorus GC-WIFI 7 it’s the best you can have for low cost and hyper fast 💨 speeds
Speed isnt the only thing ethernet gives u ethernets stability and ping is far better than wifi. U can literally spot the difference with your eyes when u r playing games like valorant
*me with 2G* 😭
i’m going to be running a ethernet cable through a wifi booster/extender through a standard wifi connection into my xbox series x
me with just 512kbps download🗿🗿💀
I think is because your cable is "old".
What I mean is that there are many generations of cable. Is like an ssd with pci Gen 3 or 4 but in this case it's called cat. The older generations like cat.4 have slow speeds but the newer
Cat.8 are very fast.
The generation of the cable matters
It could depend on your Lan type, if it's a cat5 or a cat5E the maximum download should be 100-200 mbps
Biggest difference your completely for getting is duplex. Yes if your downloading one thing it doesn't matter, but if your gaming while on discord with or without webcam and downloading somthing I'd rather have cable then wifi
This puts things into perspective, I recently got an ethernet cable and i had 600+ download and upload speed and i was like “is this good? i think its good”
we have so much experience about this you don't even need to watch videos and stuff
Its just that your network speeds aren't the best, but enthernet is more secure and gets less ping
Personally it's more of not if wifi is faster than Ethernet, but that Ethernet tends to be more stable. You don't get the lag and packet loss you do with wireless.
It depends on your PC and router bandwidth. If that's a 1 or 2.5GB end to end then you've got a problem. Wireless can easily beat a 100mbps Ethernet connection in terms of transfer. Latency is a different story.
Antenna orientation matters, hope not taking that variable into account is an attempt at getting more comments
if wifi beats ethernet at download and upload speed, then the cable could probably be cat3 or cat5, or maybe the ethernet cable is connected to an extender, there is literally no way it would be because the ethernet port speed is limited to 100 because his speed is already reaching higher than 100mbps
Typically most households Ethernet will just offer a more stable connection which doesn’t always offer a benefit in sheer speed
Use a better more reliable site for internet speeds, and you must remember WiFi isn't always going to stay consistent, especially considering bandwidth and high traffic of ur internet being used (wherever this place is)
As a radio technician, and someone who studies radio frequencies I can tell you in some cases depending on the RF the antenna I assume uses VHF or UHF in most cases it’s faster than hard wiring, the fastest your gonna get would be fiber optic cables.
Hey man, I’m far from my router, I don’t wanna use a Ethernet cable throughout my house, what would you recommend for the best connection? (I have ATAT WiFi)
From what i know in my personal experience, ethernet is more consistent, not faster. So pick which you like most, wireless convenience or good ol cable mess across the room.
with WiFi you can get lower ping and faster speeds but the main reason you'd use ethernet is the insane stability which outweighs the pros with wifi
Bro I just got a new pc and I was wondering what those little sticks were. My internet was SO SLOW until I saw this and realized they were extenders. Thank you so much
Ethernet might be capped so your wifi can pump more waves out preset up like that, most likely from the manufacturer thinking most users need wifi over wired.
Just a guess really I don’t understand internet very well.
At least from experience, in the local stores around here, almost all wifi cards are ass, one even almost broke my pc with constant blue screens and, overall, horrible performance
The download speed is more than enough… but you even if the WiFi download speed is faster the cable gives you less ms Ping
Its the reason why it spiked to 200 because you have been throttled
Wi-Fi is just as fast as ethernet as long as you’re close enough to the router. The point of ethernet is to reduce ping it also helps maintain top speed over long distance
Maybe your cable is old, you might be using CAT 6, try getting CAT 8 cable, it is the newest and fastest.
cat 8 isn't recommended for home use😂
@@AquaLady153 unless you want 40000 mbps WiFi speed for gaming
i have 1g but y'all stay safe out there
Also your Ethernet cable is a CAT 5, upgrade at least to a CAT 6
Cat5e can handle atleast 1Gbps up to around 100 Meters
Well, guess what my parents are not complaining there’s two computers in the house and it’s draining the BT hub
this dude moves and waves his arms around like peewee herman
Throttling after back to back tests
Some internet companies will “bottleneck” your internet. Only those who keep close eye on their speeds notice. Companies do this to charge for higher speeds when you’re actually getting 1/2.
What else is attached to the router? Some routers have independent Gb Ethernet ports and some have a shared Gb over the ports especially on the default routers from the ISP. I would check what your network is capable of before testing your computer’s connection so you know what to expect.
And here's me, sitting on my 2mb per second wifi because the fibre cable that will give me speeds of at least 100mg per second stops at the pole outside my house with with they want £700 to simply string an extra line from the box. If I do that I'd be paying for everyone else to have fibre as well but they only have to pay £50 to have their line attached
Just built my first pc and was wondering why my WiFi was so shitty. Come to find out I never installed the antennas my motherboard came with!! Rookie mistake lol my connection went from 40mbs to 250mbs instantly after installing the antennas 👍🏼
As a network engineer. Speed and latency are two different things. WiFi can also be fast but drop packets. Ethernet is always the way to go if possible. Unless you use cat5 or something ancient. Modern cat6 is best.
service provider Engineer here , things that can cause your wifi to be faster than your Ethernet could be many things
from cable type , Cat 5 , Cat 5E can cause this sometimes , thats why Cat 6 and 6 E is a go to.
other things are perhaps interference! belive it or not , UTP cable is suseptable to this , thats why STP cable exists (Shielded tangled pair) and can reduce the speed
so can the mother boards port can affect this , maybe there is some wierd stuff going on at a software level that limits it sometimes , that part im not too sure
Wifi 5.0Ghz is a amazing tech and i absolutly love its power and speed tbh , its really really good , perhaps your running your 5.0Ghz on a VERY high Mhz frequency which gives it much more bandwidth and perhaps it has MIMO tech , who knows
Also Ethernet cables commonly have issues in buildings that have not installed “Noise” prevention
It could be the wire and also even if it is less it’s better since Ethernet is more stable than WiFi since WiFi has hitches
bro skipped school math classes and computer classes too
itd be better to do a sequential file share test to see full gigabit
If you connect your Wi-Fi to our house, your phone will go slow
At my home (and in my country), we have the optic fiber. So, with Wi-Fi, we can make 150-200 Mb/s download and upload.
But with ethernet cable, we have almost 1 Gb/s download and 600 Mb/s upload.
I think it depends from your country.
As a few other commenters have mentioned this test needs to be performed using averages in order to get a real answer because wifi signal always varies
Network reset will help in case any settings that may have been changed that would limit the bandwidth you are receiving while hard lined in
Make sure your cable is one of the newer models I dont know much about it but Cat 4,5 and 6 are preferable
There's cables for each internet speed threshold, meaning that, the more powerful cable, the more speed you will get, each type has a max data transfer, that's why it's spiking like that. Also test atleast 3-4 times
Speed isn't really the problem. It is consistency. The quality of internet flow to your computer matters most when we are talking about gaming or any other real time activity. If all you are doing is consuming social media or netflix wifi is fine. But if you are gaming you want the best connection possible which will always be a hard connection.
WiFi can in the best case be equivalent but it never will be due to packet loss
LAN is better for me,the speeds are same on both wifi and ethernet but the ping in waaaay lower on ethernet
Speed isn’t what it effects if u have the right router and the right adapter. The latency and stability is worse and other stuff can interfere with it. That is what matters.
Wired internet is still better, you should do the test 9 more times, and get a correct cable, which can transer the speed of the internet
Simple answer always just slow down your Ethernet cable speed
Multiple tests will help the result accuracy and Ethernet speeds also depend on how long the cable is and what category
My original antennas had a bad connection with my card and it really effected the performance of my WiFi and Bluetooth. Bluetooth was very noticeable as the signal would cut out with slight movement. Replaced the antennas and I now have full WiFi and Bluetooth strength.
You should use an expensive and good ethernet cable maybe that will work
It can if you have the right router and stuff. Like I have spectrum and I get 1gig download and upload on wired and Wi-Fi but I get less ping on Wi-Fi and more on Ethernet. It’s weird. But most companies are trying to go “wireless” and they purposely make Ethernet slower
Its going to depend on the gage of wire youre using and the length of then cord.
Could be that the wires got a lower mbps speed than the extender not 100% but im sure both are sold at different speeds
When conducting these types of experiments it’s always important to have a good sample size. Also name your equipment, the equipment you have + your service speed determines how fast your internet is. Example all my network equipment has the ability to transfer 10G, but my ISP service is only 600 Down, 30 UP. My APs are rated for 250MBPS. So on ethernet with CAT6E my PC gets 650 Mbps to the internet, ~2GBps on my local network between my servers because my motherboard supports up to 2.5GB internet. Generally wired will always be faster and more stable.
Wifi on 5G band actually works as good as ethernet
BTW they are NOT Extenders they are Antenna's, externders are a device used to take in WiFi signal and rebroadcast them, if you cant evenm get the basics righty dont bother
When the Ethernet cable it is very easy to damage and the Wi-Fi speed will be much slower 😮
I get around 900Mbps to 950Mbps speeds on ethernet with AT&T which is incredible speeds but they don't offer these speeds for home internet anymore. I was one of the last homes to get these speeds offered to them!
Maybe because you had a CAT6 Ethernet cable plugged in & not a CAT8
In a real world scenario, depends, but mostly no. And it looks like you only tested it once (probably). Just like a CPU, it needs to maintain a temperature for it to not throttle