WiFi Speed VS Signal Strength & How To Pick The BEST Wifi Adaptor

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 36

  • @uglybob7505
    @uglybob7505 2 года назад +4

    Ooooo cheap you say....now youve perked my interest :-) I have one of the tiny adaptors in my toolkit just incase and Ive had to use it a couple of times when Ive had issues with the inbuilt wifi or the inbuilt wifi spec isnt as high as an external one would be. I find the external ones better for connecting to a mesh system rather than a traditional wifi service. Thanks for the video Mike and Kath and thanks for the GRAPHS !!!!!!! :-)

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      lol bob and his graph addiction, i need to learn how to make more interesting graphs, that is my mission

  • @Senrab46
    @Senrab46 2 года назад +2

    Good reminder of what needs doing to ensure wifi performs well and adding wifi to pc if wired not available. On a similar topic have you done a review on bluetooth dongles? Last week I helped my friends clean and rehouse a pc (thick with grime so your live stream came in handy lol) but for ease I moved my dongles to their pc case and back a few times. Now I find my seenda keyboard stutters in games and misses the odd letter in word. Reset in device manager and checked updates but only after a final reboot did it seemed to work properly! Thanks for sharing Mike and Kath👍

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      yeah bluetooth protocols can easily get messed up just by moving to another usb port. I sometimes go into hidden devices and delete all the bluetooth devices and start over

    • @Senrab46
      @Senrab46 2 года назад +1

      @@mikesunboxing Hadn't heard of that so if problem recurs will check. So far working okay now but thanks for advice Mike👍

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      @@Senrab46 No problem :-)

  • @waldo1359
    @waldo1359 2 года назад +1

    I increased the speed of my pc Internet by buying a USB extension so its not closer to front panel and io panel and that made a huge difference

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      yes that is a great idea and works very well for very little cost

  • @PaulBakewell
    @PaulBakewell 2 года назад +2

    Nice informative video,thanks Mike. TP Link is my go to for networking kit as it’s great bang for buck. However the support channels from TPLink are painful to use, I normally end up saying “you do know you are reading the wrong script for my product, can’t you just give me the RMA number?”

  • @patricklebel1141
    @patricklebel1141 2 года назад +2

    I bought an ax210 intel chipset wifi card and that make a huge difference in my case. Now looking for another one to replace the ax200 in my x570 Tomahawk. They both use an antenna 6 feet away from the computer. The ax210 is almost 50 to 100 megabits faster in download speed than the ax200. Both antenna are on the same shelf. Usb adapter simply would not work reliaby in my basement.

  • @telquad1953
    @telquad1953 2 года назад +1

    Helpful as always! Thanks.

  • @WilliamAndrewPhilipBodie
    @WilliamAndrewPhilipBodie 2 года назад +2

    Nice info. but i only use cable. because the German internet is the Wurst 😛

  • @OlettaLiano
    @OlettaLiano 2 года назад +1

    I built myself a 5G dipole wifi antenna for my PC that works pretty well. There are quite a few DIY videos on YT if anyone cares to give it a try.

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      good idea, need all the help we can get in brick and mortar houses

  • @michaelthompson9798
    @michaelthompson9798 2 года назад +2

    Mike, I noticed in the UK, Virgin has a £55 plan with 600Mbps download and 40Mbps upload …noice🤩😉🤯! Internet here in Australia 🇦🇺 is expensive FTTC $90AUD (including 10% GST … local taxes) for 100Mbps download and 40Mbps upload 🤕 which is my current internet plan. It’s about $120AUD for 200Mbps download and 20-40Mbps upload. Also 50Mbps download and 10-20 Mbps upload for roughly $65-70 AUD …. All pricing includes 10% taxes.

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      i have that plan 👍it was an upgrade that was offered when i told them i was leaving

  • @capsikseason
    @capsikseason 2 года назад +1

    The tp link wifi adapter is really good connects to 5g networks I upgraded to WiFi 6e now

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +2

      yeah i quite like the brand, seems good value for money

  • @matthewday7565
    @matthewday7565 2 года назад +1

    For 2.4GHz, there are THREE incompatible "channel plans".
    The most common: 1, 6, 11 - Three totally non overlapping for the US 1-11 allocation
    2. The optimal UK/EU of 1, 5, 9, 13 - Four edge scraping channels, or two wide channels
    3. The US compromise plan, 1, 4, 7, 11 ... 3 apart is not ideal.
    For 5GHz, things get more complicated due to DFS (radar avoidance) rules.
    36, 40, 44, 48 are the only non-DFS channels, and are every device's default, making 4 narrow, 2 wide or 1 ultra wide channel(s) in total.
    52-64 the other half of the low set, and 100-144 are often ignored, as devices may need an additional setting to operate on the DFS required channels. The final high group 149-177 are reserved for outdoor point to point.

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      you might have to come round and setup my ultimate network

  • @royelleray3834
    @royelleray3834 2 года назад +1

    Good info, I've got vm 200mb no mesh yet, but I'm going to get a system, did you put the hub In modem only mode?

    • @cptwhite
      @cptwhite 2 года назад +2

      I've done exactly this, you just run an ethernet cable to the first mesh hub. Yeah you can put the router into modem only mode, but it's not prerequisite.

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +2

      Yes that’s right

    • @royelleray3834
      @royelleray3834 2 года назад +1

      @@cptwhite thanks for the info very useful 👍

  • @-The-Golden-God-
    @-The-Golden-God- 2 года назад +1

    I'd say the most important aspect to consider is buffer bloat.

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      i have not heard of that. i'll look into it

  • @saucybash4587
    @saucybash4587 2 года назад

    Which one of these would be optimal for gaming with a lot of distance between you and your router/modem. I got the nano150 one and it’s really slow because of how far I am from my router

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад

      something with a decent antenna for sure, the better the signal the better and more consistant the speeds

  • @cptwhite
    @cptwhite 2 года назад +1

    The amount of people who slate a super fast broadband provider, say Virgin Media, because "the wifi is rubbish" on my estate's FB group always makes be laugh...always ends up being a budget 9 year old laptop and they wonder why the signal strength isn't great...

  • @methanoid
    @methanoid 2 года назад

    Those "analyser" charts look bad... so many signals on same channel... Oh dear. Take AUTO off and select channel manually!

    • @mikesunboxing
      @mikesunboxing  2 года назад +1

      yeah i am mapping out the neighbours wifi bands in the various mesh locations and trying to get the clearest bands