Why is Wi-Fi Slower than Ethernet? 

Because if you have windows open some of the wifi willl escape

So what you saying us is.....we need an Ethernet port on our smartphones? That's..........Genius!

When your internet speed is 700 kb/s then there’s basically no difference.

It's like having your own Lane on the freeway vs honking through heavy traffic in India. Cable = Your own lane. Wireless = Traffic in India.

*I WANT ETHERNET IN MY PHONE!*

Please make video telling how microwave affects wi-fi.

This video ended up being a lot more interesting than I expected.

If a person is dumb I usually just say, because Wi-fi only has 4 letters and Ethernet has 8 letters. Person who ask the question: Ohhhhh, yea that makes sense. Thank you Me: Here to help

Because air is applying drag and also gravity is slowing WiFi down

I always need my daily quickie

Thank you for talking about duplex communication! half-duplex really hurts throughout and wifi is forced onto it!

Can't wait for Space X's Starlink and I can stop using Bell's infrastructure.

As a tech support agent for an ISP, the most simplest words I could describe to a person about WiFi and slow speeds, the more straws you add into a cola can how much are you really going to enjoy that cola for yourself. But if WiFi was formed into a person, let’s say I’d be in jail.

I have 300mb WiFi in school and wired school internet is almost the same.

Very interesting explanation of this subject. Cool!

good intro video, thank your from your IT and Tech mates!

Don't forget throttling; that's the bane of all connections.

i connect my tablet via ethernet . a micro usb to usb dongle then a usb to ethernet dongle and finaly ethernet cable to the dongle and modem.

Just the quickie I needed after a hard days work!

You are so good at explaining stuff

Then what's the point of having more antenna's then one for a Wi-Fi Router and it still can't be full-duplex .

Wi-Fi routers now use multiple antennas to avoid half duplex or be able to operate in two (3 sometimes) different frequencies. There is also a Mu-MIMO.

Keep up the great work love ya!

I found that mentioning the speeds of EM waves, and the flow of electrons really interesting. I was also unaware of the terms half-duplex, and full duplex. It is interesting that there are people working on full duplex tech!

TEXH WUICKEI

As an add-on, don't forget too that these days, wired networks are almost universally SWITCHED networks, meaning network switches interconnect devices. This means that Ethernet collisions are almost non-existent because each device gets a dedicated pipe, so there's even less latency involved because you almost never need to account for two devices taking turns sharing the same wire

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Think of the cable connection like a train, and the wireless connection like a car. The cable connection follows the cable with very few interferences. The car on the other hand can start at the same spot, but it has to slow down either from traffic or whenever it gets to an interchange (in our case, other signals and internet routing). They will still both start and end their journeys at the same place, but they will take different paths in the middle.

Electrons move incredibly slowly in a wire. The drift speed is something like 1 mm every 5 seconds. They're just very tightly packed, so electrical impulses can move really quickly.

just 1 thing: 0:56 Electrons do not move fast through a wire, but the signal speed is close to speed of light.... Actually electrons are very slow to move in the wire.

I love a nice quickie.

0:58 electrons barely moves in wires, waves travel in wires in emf speed but get reduce due to wire impedance.

During my job training as an programmer during a Network Class, I was asked how I would advertise fiber Ethernet compared to copper and my first guess was that there is less latency and I got told that is not good advertising. Technically this isn't wrong, because light travels at light speed and electrons in a cable are a bit slower and one reason is that they don't take a direct path but with cheaper optical fiber, this is also the case. The latency difference is very tiny on scales like an office building. Sure for the stock market, anything that's faster, is better. I have an other question that maybe might be a good video. When you rented an apartment and you prefer cable on everything, you might run into an issue. Laying down cables to every room is hard. You can't open the wall and hide it nicely. When you try to cross rooms, you need to make a hole in the wall. I mean it should look nice, should be permanent, until you decide to move out and remove everything. There is the office style with this ugly cable channels at about 1m height and big at. The home solution might be smaller cable channels on the bottom of your wall, Ethernet outlets that you screw on the wall, instead putting them on the wall and drilling holes in the wall, to pass cables through the wall. There is a slight issue. With more cables, the holes need to be bigger and also the cable channels. Just let imagine how many ports a single person might need in a 2 room apartment. In the bedroom there is your TV and you might get a TV in the future that supports smart TV. You also have a streaming device like a Steam Link for one of your consoles and a docking station for your Nintendo switch. A Ethernet cable for your Fire TV or similar is not nessesary, because your future smart TV might replace this. Also because you are oldschool, you have a stationary Telephon with VoIP. You also have a spare port for your laptop. That makes 5 Ports but because the outlets come in dual config and there are cables for 2 ports, we make it 6 for the bedroom. For the living room, it's similar. 1 for the TV, 2 for Consoles, 1 for WiFi, 1 for your PC, 2 for Smart Device Hubs, 2 for a Nas, 1 for an additional PC, 1 for your VoIP Phone and 1 for your Printer. That are 12 more Ports. That are 18 Ports. I didn't mentioned Cameras or additional TVs or Displays with a streaming device. Sure everyone has other needs. Some have less consoles and some more and switching cables is a pain. I mean when someone is willing to get a proper setup, it's not that hard. A small server cabinet is easy to buy and a switch fits there in and it's tidy when done properly. I mean you even can put a server into it. Sure you can extend things with a switch. For example is the TV area. When you have 3 Consoles and your TV there, you put a 5 Port Switch there and it's not slow, because you only use one at a time. Also I forgot to mention that you can use PoE for devices that support this. I mean other solutions might be better for renting. Powerlan is a nice solution, because you don't need to put a lot of cables. One big downside is that the bandwidth is not great. With Lan, you easily can go to 10G, even when a handful of devices uses this. Your internet speed won't get faster but accessing your Nas might be better. One better solution might be fiber. The cables are way more thinner and theoretically can transmit to more than one device with other colors. At least 3, using rgb. Sure you can't bend the cables on sharp corners. Sure for converting, the ports should do the work but that maybe need external power. I don't think that the energy over a normal Ethernet cable is enough. Splitting the signals can done without power with simple filters. For me that sounds like a solution that's might be on the market. Sure fiber is nothing new but you need a device that converts everything and most devices only supports plain Ethernet. There should be better techniques, especially for people that don't want to destroy a lot. Making a hole in the wall for passing cables is something I hate. You need a long enough drillbit and that big enough. I bought a drill bit that was long enough and tried it on concrete. The hole was not the problem but the connector didn't fit through. You can't make the hole bigger without a proper bit. With paper walls this is no problem. I mean maybe there is also a device that are better for the holes. Fitting 3 twin cables through the wall for 6 Ports is quite hard but even more is way harder. Also these cables are harder to bend.

I was so confused at why linus was on another channel two years ago

When the router starts transmitting and receiving at the same time and its eyes start going I lost it.

Can't we make dual antenna with 1 for input and other for output. Making it full duplex?

0:52 speed ain't the same thing as bandwidth. i can't figure out why anyone would not understand that. i know it's meant as a joke in the video.

Linus: Wireless wil always be slower than wired Logitech 2019:..Hold my beer...

I got an ad before this video started with linus in it and this is a video with linus in it lol.

Good animations on this one. : )

We have two new animals! Its: Wifi Turtle and Ethernet Bunny!

When I download a big file, I take my laptop upstairs and plug it into the router with an Ethernet cable. It’s a night and day difference in speeds, I get 15mbps wireless and 40mbps wired.

It's because of you i set up my home network system you have very good information.

linus drop the radio waves during the video

I actually made a project which demonstrates the speed of wps (wireless) , Ethernet and plc(power line) and best speed tested was ETHERNET! Even plc was more faster than wireless. I made this mini project with reference to earlier similar video of techquickie!!!

"Why does linus always drop stuff?"

WiFi technology is half duplex and basically works like an old ethernet hub that has been obsolete for decades. Ethernet uses layer 2 switching to send data to the correct MAC address of a device. This means there are virtually no collisions. It also enable full duplex transmission.

What WiFi analyzer is being used at 2:00? I have seen a screen grab of this on many different videos on LTT and TQ, but I don’t know which program is being used...

What if we remove the antenna from both ends and connect the device and the router with a coaxial cable instead, will that be considered wired or wireless?

If only this video was available when I was working tech support for an ISP. I would of told customers to watch this video so they can understand that wifi is not better than ethernet, and that wifi is not perfect.

I had a 5 year old ethernet cable and chose to replace it with a new cat7 cable do you think I'll see a difference ? The cable could possibly be older not sure

A surprisingly informative video where I thought there would be a simple answer.

Bees will eat my hair? But what if i dont have any 🤔! Why don't you guys call the series "xxx as fast as possible" anymore?

P.S the speed of the electrons going through a wire is not representative of the speed of data transmission. Electricity travels as EM

an ad came with linus advertising and immediately I see Linus again then I said what

I’m glad I helped out my dad with his internet problem by simply just plugging it an Ethernet cable to his desktop and configuring it to the desired settings. He needs it

I just built my first pc and i need to play wired but my mom wont let me move the router lmao

I have been using WIFI at home for so long that I forgot I had Ethernet cabling throughout the house. What I difference when I use Ethernet instead of WIFI. Working at home during COVID is going to be much less frustrating!

I heard of a thing that u plug into a wall, connect it to an ethernet cable, and then on the other side of the house you plug the second thing into the wall and connect a cable from there to PC, is that better?

I have a 300mbps up and down and just checked on my phone i get 302 down and 330 up. Is my wifi lying or is it just really good?

1:49 *Look down Please, he is scraching his....*

The fastest ethernet in my country is slower than wifi I saw on RU-vid

Is there different types of Ethernet and Ethernet cables? How do I know what to use for my pc

It's not the electrons that are transmitting signal ; on a cable the electrons have an important oscillation movement but slow translation one, and do not travel in the whole cable at fast speed. The signal is carried by the variations of the electrical and magnetic field, which are both linked to the internal movement of electrons but are not carried by matter and go at almost the speed of light, depending on the material. (sry for bad english)

Common sense!

2:11 i have exactly the same router 😂

Ok but mbps or gbps still make a difference when using a wired connection right?

Could you talk about topics relating to game development please, thanks. Keep it up

How come you get faster internet speeds using mobile data (4G/LTE) compared to using home internet? I'd guess it's something to do with the mobile data having priority/direct access to the internet provider. Possibly fewer translation steps as well?

I hate to be that guy but the electrons themselves move quite slowly through a conducting wire. While your words at 0:50 are wrong, your message is still accurate. The *signal* travels through the wire at between 50-99% of the speed of light (according to wiki), so you're kinda forgiven. For anyone who is interested, which is probably nobody, if you have 15 amps passing through a 10 gauge copper wire, the electrons themselves are moving at around 0.21 millimeters per second. That's pretty slow. Has little bearing on the speed and latency of a connection though, so it isn't that important here. Another fact that nobody asked for is that "electricity" (meaning electrons) actually flow from the negative terminal to the positive terminal on a battery.

Ok, I'm gonna look this up but I do wish Linus mentioned the use of multiple antenna. I 'think' this should allow for full duplux along with multiples of speed with each antenna-> provided your device has said multiple antenna too (I guess that's prob the catch)

WAS UP LINUS

Wireless internet is faster than Ethernet for me when it’s in close proximity of the router.

What was up with Li-Fi .. They said its faster 10x faster than WiFi and they even tested gigabit file transfer with success... Or I could be wrong.

Hmmm also the signal has to be translated into the radio signal and then re-translated at the receiving end. Encoded/decoded whatever the term you want to use.

my neighborhood is fiber-to-the-house..which requires a different modem and also the boxes for pulling out the cable TV signal vs people that have coax running thru their neighboorhood....I tried explaining it to a friend back home but he didn't get it...can you make a video that explains how fiber-to-the-house for internet/"cable tv" is different than Coax-to-the-house, equipment used, uplink speed differences, why coax can sometimes have bandpass filters and how I could get "free SD cable" channels at my old house but now I don't have a choice but to pay (fiber)

Our internet is only 500kb a second it kills me

Please someone tell the ISPs that wireless internet is trash and in no way can be a suitable substitute for hard lines

If you are using home electric wiring system to distribute your internet inside your home.then can neighbors use it too?

What internet service provider you use brother? And where country you now?

Umm.. its not like i want to run a really long cable from the living room downstairs to my room upstairs just for faster internet

Try taping RTX 208Ti on your router to make it faster

Bro how do you Change your background please reply And from where do you bring this type of topics please reply

You don't need to tell me that, my wired internet is like greased lightning, yet the wifi is slower than my brain on a cold day.

my wifi is both at home and school as fast as wired and the latencies are the same as well. why?

They're starting recycling their older videos

It’s so weird to see linus without the beard

how about a video on ergonomics, explaining how to set up a workstation properly

Ethernet cables are also used to carry power. They still get 1 gigabit or more even with PoE 🍄

_Watches in 4k at 2x speed_

Can this topic be applied to mobile networks as well?

so is there any benefit for getting high speed internet connection than an optimal speed internet connection for wifi router say 100mbps (cheap optical fiber connection ) vs 5mbps for example

Of course radio waves travel faster through air than electrona in wire. In fact, electrons move INCREDIBLY SLOW

Totally a fact: 50% of people that have heard of the word "ethernet" saw it for the first time on... The Fortnite loading screen.

Its like a direct pipeline delivering oil or something it's just turn the tap on and it's there wireless is like having a ship haveing to bring the oil to you it takes more time and is more valuable to things that will slow it down or get in the way

This is the second time I'm seeing pulse way ad of linus before your video

Aww man got so close to first

44th comment yay

A-a-a good transition to the sponser? Who wrote the script?

0:53 electrons move with a speed of a few meters per sec in the cable. What you are talking about is the signal speed in the cable. The signal moves with photons (em waves) just like in the wireless connection. Also, this speed (speed of em waves in metal or air) is not that important, it only affects a percentage of your ping. The bandwidth or mbps of the connection have 0 connection with the speed of the signal. In a wireless connection the higher your frequency the more data throughput. 5ghz wifi is in fact capable of double the speed of 2.4ghz when the connection is good. The higher the frequency gets its harder for the signal to penetrate walls or if you go high enough even paper. The wired connection is much more consistent and this is why it's preferable. In a wired connection you don't even have security issues between your device and the router.