Broadband speed

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Gunner276 said:

sweetgirl2015 said:

Personally I don't like Virgin, I remember my friend had terrible problems with WiFi speeds, and the minute they changed to Plusnet they get great wifi all around the house. 
Hence why I recommended switching earlier. 
Its easy to switch these days, and Plusnet are so helpful over the phone to sort stuff out if needed. 

Plusnet are knowingly sending out routers with a 5GHz problem in the firmware. I've had to buy a 2nd hand BT router to fix the problem. Customer service is not as good as they promise!

I stopped using ISP Wifi routers many years ago and have never looked back. They are built to a price and reflect that in the quality and capabilities.

When you can pay anything from £300-£500 a year in for decent speed broadband subscriptions, spending £200-£500 on a good quality wifi router or mesh system that will last 5+ years is well worth the investment.

illiad said:

If you are desperate for wifi and can afford about £300 for a wifi router, it will STILL have problems!!

A £300 tri-band wifi router solved all my wifi problems and one of the best investments I've ever made. Even in the furthest point in the house through 3 walls and a floor my wifi delivers 240 mpbs out of the 380 mpbs available on the broadband. I have about 20-30 devices connected all working flawlessly. 

illiad

|tallmansix: do tell us the name of the £300 tri-band wifi router  ???

and make sure you do a proper speed test to prove it!!

'dslreports speed test'

'thinkbroadband speedtest'

results required..

debitcardmayhem

illiad said:

|tallmansix: do tell us the name of the £300 tri-band wifi router  ???

Let me do my mystic meg I guess ASUS , oh and if you have a huge house get two and set up AI-mesh.

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illiad said:

|tallmansix: do tell us the name of the £300 tri-band wifi router  ???

and make sure you do a proper speed test to prove it!!

'dslreports speed test'

'thinkbroadband speedtest'

results required..

Asus ROG GT-AC5300 - yes debitcardmayhem guessed correctly. I have a bit of a passion for the Asus Routers but this particularly one is extra special because it is complete overkill specification wise. I wouldn't actually recommended it simply because of that, there are plenty of excellent routers at a lower price point that do a great job but I only paid £236 so couldn't refuse it.

This is the speed test done when I posted earlier at the other end of the house through 3 walls and a floor in the furthest and slowest room with an iPhone. Note the upload achieves 14 mbps - less than half the upload bandwidth of the broadband (38mbps) because the puny iPhone transmitter is pretty weak at this point (-81dbm as seen by the router) yet the download from the router still exceeds the average broadband connection due to the high power / quality transmitters and aerials on the router.



This is a test done just now about 10 metres from the router through one internal brick wall



My laptop gets about 600mbps on the wifi for LAN transfers from a NAS than can max out the gigabit ethernet when wired, again through 1 brick wall and 10 metres from router:


And finally "proper" speed test results as you requested using Wifi on my laptop:
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/67396106
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/1613606322388408155

Anyway, my point is you can have excellent wifi if you make the break from ISP supplied routers. 

Tokmon

illiad said:

|tallmansix: do tell us the name of the £300 tri-band wifi router  ???

and make sure you do a proper speed test to prove it!!

'dslreports speed test'

'thinkbroadband speedtest'

results required..

That's not a "proper" speed test when your interested in the Wi-Fi network speed because then you are reliant on the internet connection speed two as an added variable to the equation. 

Deleted_User test where they see the file transfer speed from a Ethernet connected NAS to a Wi-Fi connected device is the most accurate test of the Wi-Fi network speed. 

debitcardmayhem

Look at iperf for testing wireless(and wired) https://iperf.fr/

illiad

well here is a list!

https://www.techspot.com/bestof/routers/

lots of comments about how to improve them too..

illiad

here is the test (using good cat6 wired )

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/67401499

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/1613656294505189955
and yes, they work ok on wifi, on a mobilecellphone too..

illiad

so iperf is like testing a cars MPG  and RPM/ gears performance and not just how fast it will go in different gears??

Zandoni

Is this cable or through you phone line?