How do I get the speeds that my Router is saying?

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Hey, I just want to know why am I not getting the speeds my router is saying I am meant to be getting.
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It says there that I am meant to be having 65Mbps. Now that is the highest it ever goes, it can go as low as 20Mbps or lower. Now I want to know why am I not getting that speed. I have a Technicolor TG587n v3.
 
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few things if your paying for that speed check it with speedtest web page. depending on your isp your speed will drop when there over loaded like here in the us..also with the internet depends on the hardware between you and what your downloading and the number of hops it takes. in side your home hard wire cable will get your max speed. if you use wifi you have to use high end mmo card or a 5.0g card to get close to the speed you want. in real life with wifi you get a lot slower speeds then hardware is rated do to wifi over head.

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Even if the router is rated to output at that speed, it depends on the service and the wireless chip in your system, those may be why you are not getting the full speed of your router
 
few things if your paying for that speed check it with speedtest web page. depending on your isp your speed will drop when there over loaded like here in the us..also with the internet depends on the hardware between you and what your downloading and the number of hops it takes. in side your home hard wire cable will get your max speed. if you use wifi you have to use high end mmo card or a 5.0g card to get close to the speed you want. in real life with wifi you get a lot slower speeds then hardware is rated do to wifi over head.
 
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Shouldn't an iPhone 4S and above be compatible to get that high speeds though?
 

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Acutally the wireless chips in mobile devices are not very good at all, they make them worse for better battery efficiency. If they had a super powerful wireless chip in a phone it would drain the battery.

 
What are you using to test the speed. Obviously if you only buy a 10m connection from the ISP you will never go above 10m. This is router is generally used on a form of DSL connection and those generally never even come close to 65m.

So lets assume you are testing between a wired PC in your house and the wireless device and you still wonder why you do not get this speed.

What the 65m number is not so much a speed but a simpler representation of the protocol that was negotiated. It could say MCS of 7 or spell it out as 1 stream, qam-64,20mhz channels and wide gaurd bands. They just use the speed number to make it simpler for the general public but it does not actually represent some number you will ever get.

Part of the issue is that this is the total bandwidth both up and down. Traffic never really only goes a single direction so this is divided and it is not as simple as half up an half down. But lets say it is that cuts you to 32m. Now this all assume all the radio signals are perfectly received and there is no interference or loss due to distance or walls and such things. So it tends to be even much less.

If you look at the very top of line routers that claim 1300m many of reputable test sites show that you really only get about 200 down and maybe 400 total. So if you would take this ratio with the 65m you show you should only get maybe 7m. Luckily when you are running simpler wireless you do not get as large a reduction. I would say you can expect to be able to get maybe 15-20m though the connection in your average.

Then again if your ISP connection is only say 10m you will still only get 10m no matter how much better router you would buy.
 

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I get to 300kb/s (kilobytes) average. I am paying for what ever speeds come through the house and it says on the box 65 Mbps.
 


ISP does not work that way. You pay for a certain maximum rate that they clearly state. If you actually signed a contract with the isp that says "whatever speed" then they can only give you 1k/sec and keep your money.

The numbers you are looking at represent wireless speeds INSIDE your house from your PC to the router. You can actually test these with other tools but it still will not increase you speed to the internet.

 

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I pay for whatever the lines can handle... itsa australia and the lines are poorly maintained. is that why?
 

Yes and no. The speed you get to the ISP is based on the quality of the wire when you have a ADSL connection but runs pretty constantly. It does not change much. The number you are looking at does not represent the speed of the connection to the ISP. You likely could unplug the wire going out of your house and you would still see the 65m number because it represent the speed between you and the router.

There is likely another number someplace in the wan setting screen on the router that shows what you are getting on the ADSL connection to the ISP.