How much slower should a wireless connection be than wired assuming no interference and excellent signal? Half? 80%?
I just got a 75 mbps connection with boost up to 105. I hooked up my wireless router, it's a tp link 300N, link here. http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Wireless-Router-300Mbps/dp/B001FWYGJS
It's a pretty cheap one I know, but reviewers said it is fast and reliable. One video review showed it getting over 75 mbps over wireless. When connecting via ethernet to the router my speed tests at speedtest.net are consistently in the 85 mbps range.
I have tried wireless tests on a laptop with built in wifi, my iphone 5s and my pc which uses a usb wireless N adapter. They are all significantly less fast, all around the same speed so I don't think there's any device specific issues. I'm in the same room, have complete line of sight to the router and it's only 5 feet away from my devices. I don't have any devices I can think of running interference, no baby monitors, I turned off my wireless controllers and bluetooth devices. Of course there are other wireless router's in neighbor's houses. On some channels I was only getting 5 mbps, but I finally found one that seems the best. It is averaging 25 mbps. I was downloading a game on steam and at one point it peaked at 50 mbps for a couple minutes but it could not sustain that and dropped back down to 25-30.
Is this basically the best it's gonna get or should I get a different router? When I couldn't get it to do more than 5 I called tp-link and they said it was broken and I should return it so newegg is actually sending me a new one. I'm just wondering if it will perform better. The N band should be able to get up top 300 mbps, far more than my hard line does, so I thought I'd be getting 50+ easily over wireless. I just don't know what to expect. At my old house I had a 25 mbps line and would average 18 mbps on downloads so I figured that was pretty normal, but this speed seems far too low compared to the wired, coming in at a third or less.
I just got a 75 mbps connection with boost up to 105. I hooked up my wireless router, it's a tp link 300N, link here. http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Wireless-Router-300Mbps/dp/B001FWYGJS
It's a pretty cheap one I know, but reviewers said it is fast and reliable. One video review showed it getting over 75 mbps over wireless. When connecting via ethernet to the router my speed tests at speedtest.net are consistently in the 85 mbps range.
I have tried wireless tests on a laptop with built in wifi, my iphone 5s and my pc which uses a usb wireless N adapter. They are all significantly less fast, all around the same speed so I don't think there's any device specific issues. I'm in the same room, have complete line of sight to the router and it's only 5 feet away from my devices. I don't have any devices I can think of running interference, no baby monitors, I turned off my wireless controllers and bluetooth devices. Of course there are other wireless router's in neighbor's houses. On some channels I was only getting 5 mbps, but I finally found one that seems the best. It is averaging 25 mbps. I was downloading a game on steam and at one point it peaked at 50 mbps for a couple minutes but it could not sustain that and dropped back down to 25-30.
Is this basically the best it's gonna get or should I get a different router? When I couldn't get it to do more than 5 I called tp-link and they said it was broken and I should return it so newegg is actually sending me a new one. I'm just wondering if it will perform better. The N band should be able to get up top 300 mbps, far more than my hard line does, so I thought I'd be getting 50+ easily over wireless. I just don't know what to expect. At my old house I had a 25 mbps line and would average 18 mbps on downloads so I figured that was pretty normal, but this speed seems far too low compared to the wired, coming in at a third or less.
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