@@DJH4521Buying a good WiFi card, staying as close to the router as possible, getting good antennas... The best option is always going to be to use Ethernet, though.
Being a fiber field tech I can tell you that using Ookla speed test with and without is a better decision. Run a trace route through the command prompt to compare the path your data takes through your ISP local and distant router pathing. Make sure the server it pings to matches your local ISP server. Then compare once more. This will give you and idea of how long it takes for your data to travel from place to place. Comparing them is such a useful tool to ensure your ISP isn't purposely throttling your speeds. Looking at you AT&T. >->
What? I mean yea tracing is a good troubleshooting tool to see the path your packets are taking, which is far more useful supporting large complicated networks. For a home all you'll really see is which hops your taking to whichever service you run ICMP tests on. It'll help determine, if you are having an issue, if it's inside your ISP or past them on the backbone. Tracing really isn't gonna do anything to inform you about your speeds or throttling... and once you get a gig+ FTTH, the hardest part is finding any test server that's capable of providng you that much bandwidth for testing... latency, loss, jitter, priority routes, all much different and usually more important than simple throughput. And with your fiber, are we talking dedicated runs from the COLO, or GPON or another shared line? Plenty more bandwidth than a 32down/4channel up cable, but still sharing that line with /32 /64 or even more neighbors.
Spectrum is pretty bad with the highs and lows. Definitely fluctuates constantly. If I play warzone I start a match usually with a ping of about 46ms and in the middle of the match my shit goes from 46-75-120 it's ridiculous
Disable energy efficient features for the ethernet such as "gigabit lite", "green ethernet", "power saving mode" and make sure your MTU is calculated correctly
If you are having issues with speed on ethernet, upgrade your cable to a cat6 or 8 and dump the 5e (do not use cheap dollar store cables). I know there is very little difference with 5e and 6, but it is worth a try. Also try resetting your router as the buffer may not correctly flush when using ethernet. It will fill up and tank once full. If this happens on all wired connections, it is most likely the router.
i have a long cat 5e ethernet at home XD and i used it for my old laptop i was installing an operating system (yes linux and it was ubuntu studio thats why it froze when i wanted to connect to wifi but thats ok for me since i am testing linux on it) and i had to use it but ill search for a cat 6 if i have at home and the long one isnt really needed since it needed a shorter one
I feel like the RU-vidr should have done a lan test and clarify that eliminating the only network bottleneck you can do is the connect between your router and PC/Console
My man reason why it go’s at max and then go’s down is because you are or overloading your router or there are other Devices on your network that have a more important task to do 😂 but the first one is realy common
@@cosmicwarrior1 i am not saying he is stupid, i say its most common, he askes for it i suggest, and i am verry sorry i cant speak english verry well 🐝
The router isn't overloaded. The connection draws the full speed for that session in-between other connections. It's also the router... routing those speeds are hundreds megabits. Most modern routers are layer 2 AND layer 3 so it also switches on a wired and wireless level. This is important because each connection can possibly push throughput to a gig. We don't know what else is running on his network but safe to say he isn't transmitting more than background data on multiple devices... that's not going to take much and max the connection. The reason it goes down is more than likely server speed/QoS, the home networks routes and QoS/ how the OS is handling the transfer of data AND he's not using a good speed test app. Google is 🐕 💩 for speed tests (Former network engineer)
I have Wifi6. I upgraded to a Wifi6E card in my computer after doing a speed test with the old one. The old card didn't do wifi6 and I was getting around 250-280Mbps with it. I put in the new Wifi6E card and I was getting 600s, 700s and up to 800s in Mbps with the new card. I also did a comparison test between the Wifi6E card and ethernet cable and the wifi card was up there with the ethernet cable speeds.
I did the same too, upgraded to 6E and very good increase over 6. Had to buy a 6E router but worth it. … bought the new Google Wi-Fi 6E setup and pricing good.
Well regardless if you use Wi-Fi or Ethernet you can only ever be as fast as your router connection to your ISP. Inside your home from device to device your Ethernet connection is going to be in the gigabits but once it hits the router you won't be getting that. So as long as your WiFi is faster then your connection to your ISP you really will never see any issues with speed on WiFi vs Ethernet. The problem you can have with WiFi however is interference from other signals.So for stability Ethernet is always preferable but if you can not run a direct line to your router, modern WiFi is fine.
It may be the packet length and what you send to test the speed. Usually they suffer internal fermentation where a small payload, say a byte or two, require a kilobyte long packet 😬
@@wayland7150 facts people be like I got 1,000 Mbps internet. I would be like prove it do a speed test and they only get like 10 even tho they pay for a lot more.
@@Zeb-nh6hj Eh I pay for 1000mbps and I got 1000mbps. I live in thailand and 1000mbps is considered a standard for my ISP infact you can't even get anything below 100mbps from where I live.
@@Zeb-nh6hj Well no good testing gigabit Internet over WiFi. It was a bit pointless because the up speed was only 36mbps. You want it fast in both directions to use it for anything practical like working from home. Otherwise you may as well have Internet that's 70mbps both ways. Much more useful.
Always use the antennae that comes with your motherboard, otherwise its not just wifi range that's going to suffer. Bluetooth range will suffer as well.
@@arranmc182 it costs like $40-50 for me to get 40 down and 10 up lol what are you on about? 950 and down 800 up for a quarter of the price is not "shit"
List of questions Are drivers updated for both wifi and ethernet? What's the wifi adapter capabilities? AC, AX, AD? What's the modem/router capabilities? Are you using a switch or directly connected to ISP equipment? The tests are so vague. I'm sure you know there's many variables/bottlenecks. Without technical information there's no way to tell exactly.
From what i know in my personal experience, ethernet is more consistent, not faster. So pick which you like most, wireless convenience or good ol cable mess across the room.
It’s not about the speed, it’s about consistency. The ping is more important tant anything else. If the ping spikes you’re gonna experience lags in games.
Biggest difference your completely for getting is duplex. Yes if your downloading one thing it doesn't matter, but if your gaming while on discord with or without webcam and downloading somthing I'd rather have cable then wifi
Personally it's more of not if wifi is faster than Ethernet, but that Ethernet tends to be more stable. You don't get the lag and packet loss you do with wireless.
I think is because your cable is "old". What I mean is that there are many generations of cable. Is like an ssd with pci Gen 3 or 4 but in this case it's called cat. The older generations like cat.4 have slow speeds but the newer Cat.8 are very fast. The generation of the cable matters
Wi-Fi is just as fast as ethernet as long as you’re close enough to the router. The point of ethernet is to reduce ping it also helps maintain top speed over long distance
Speed isnt the only thing ethernet gives u ethernets stability and ping is far better than wifi. U can literally spot the difference with your eyes when u r playing games like valorant
It depends on your PC and router bandwidth. If that's a 1 or 2.5GB end to end then you've got a problem. Wireless can easily beat a 100mbps Ethernet connection in terms of transfer. Latency is a different story.
service provider Engineer here , things that can cause your wifi to be faster than your Ethernet could be many things from cable type , Cat 5 , Cat 5E can cause this sometimes , thats why Cat 6 and 6 E is a go to. other things are perhaps interference! belive it or not , UTP cable is suseptable to this , thats why STP cable exists (Shielded tangled pair) and can reduce the speed so can the mother boards port can affect this , maybe there is some wierd stuff going on at a software level that limits it sometimes , that part im not too sure Wifi 5.0Ghz is a amazing tech and i absolutly love its power and speed tbh , its really really good , perhaps your running your 5.0Ghz on a VERY high Mhz frequency which gives it much more bandwidth and perhaps it has MIMO tech , who knows
Conclusion: Ethernet cable= more stable. Wifi= is less stable * just do a couple wifi tests that shows u that it is less stable. I would always choose the ethernet cable because its more stable but if u have no cable laying around just use them antennas or sum other adapter
if wifi beats ethernet at download and upload speed, then the cable could probably be cat3 or cat5, or maybe the ethernet cable is connected to an extender, there is literally no way it would be because the ethernet port speed is limited to 100 because his speed is already reaching higher than 100mbps
Use a better more reliable site for internet speeds, and you must remember WiFi isn't always going to stay consistent, especially considering bandwidth and high traffic of ur internet being used (wherever this place is)
As a network engineer. Speed and latency are two different things. WiFi can also be fast but drop packets. Ethernet is always the way to go if possible. Unless you use cat5 or something ancient. Modern cat6 is best.
As a radio technician, and someone who studies radio frequencies I can tell you in some cases depending on the RF the antenna I assume uses VHF or UHF in most cases it’s faster than hard wiring, the fastest your gonna get would be fiber optic cables.
Hey man, I’m far from my router, I don’t wanna use a Ethernet cable throughout my house, what would you recommend for the best connection? (I have ATAT WiFi)
BTW they are NOT Extenders they are Antenna's, externders are a device used to take in WiFi signal and rebroadcast them, if you cant evenm get the basics righty dont bother
Speed isn't really the problem. It is consistency. The quality of internet flow to your computer matters most when we are talking about gaming or any other real time activity. If all you are doing is consuming social media or netflix wifi is fine. But if you are gaming you want the best connection possible which will always be a hard connection.
At least from experience, in the local stores around here, almost all wifi cards are ass, one even almost broke my pc with constant blue screens and, overall, horrible performance
Ethernet is the fastest possible connection as wired connections are more reliable and direct but wireless has to tackle obstacles similar to one of the comments the cable might be damaged or NIC is not powerfull enough for both wifi and ethernet run the test for 5-7 times with various possibilities and then take an average for a better prospective
This is because you have a bad router, buy a refurbished CPU and build a pc for close to 150-200£ and install opnsense or whatever you want. That same wifi card can be used just as well for distributing wifi through your home and you can put limiters or minimum network thouroughput on each individual port(s). skills
Speed isn’t what it effects if u have the right router and the right adapter. The latency and stability is worse and other stuff can interfere with it. That is what matters.
At my home (and in my country), we have the optic fiber. So, with Wi-Fi, we can make 150-200 Mb/s download and upload. But with ethernet cable, we have almost 1 Gb/s download and 600 Mb/s upload. I think it depends from your country.
There's cables for each internet speed threshold, meaning that, the more powerful cable, the more speed you will get, each type has a max data transfer, that's why it's spiking like that. Also test atleast 3-4 times
Ethernets value isn't that its faster than WiFi, which depending on your routers location the WiFi can be the same speed as Ethernet. Ethernet is great for consistency. It wont go from 100Mb/s to 50 for example. And also Ethernet cables are extremely cheap so it's a very cheap way to make your Internet consistent in consoles and pcs
When conducting these types of experiments it’s always important to have a good sample size. Also name your equipment, the equipment you have + your service speed determines how fast your internet is. Example all my network equipment has the ability to transfer 10G, but my ISP service is only 600 Down, 30 UP. My APs are rated for 250MBPS. So on ethernet with CAT6E my PC gets 650 Mbps to the internet, ~2GBps on my local network between my servers because my motherboard supports up to 2.5GB internet. Generally wired will always be faster and more stable.
Great video. My two cents is that the actual speed is one side of the full picture. Although, the Ethernet speeds being slowest is probably just an outlier. However, you do want to consider the ping and latency numbers as well for all 3 situations. Generally a wired connection has the lowest ping and latency and that makes all the difference in the world.
This puts things into perspective, I recently got an ethernet cable and i had 600+ download and upload speed and i was like “is this good? i think its good”
What else is attached to the router? Some routers have independent Gb Ethernet ports and some have a shared Gb over the ports especially on the default routers from the ISP. I would check what your network is capable of before testing your computer’s connection so you know what to expect.
Ethernet might be capped so your wifi can pump more waves out preset up like that, most likely from the manufacturer thinking most users need wifi over wired. Just a guess really I don’t understand internet very well.
Likeliness is, the modem has gone “okay, wireless devices have priority so let’s allocate a small bandwidth to our direct connection LAN user on port #X” which happens to be smaller than wireless connections. This is a protocol which is quiet common among most manufacturers. This is also why you see this “spike” upon initiating the speed test. But once configured and changed the appropriate settings. You will see more potential than you thought ever could come from your internet. Edit: this could be the issue besides other most common problems, example; cable broken or damaged, drivers not up to date or partial damaged. Potentially with some manufacturers with motherboards more so towards the budget side I’m assuming, the bios requires updates and a few other things like having dedicated software for maximum Ethernet utilisation. Kinda like motherboards with built in wifi needing their first driver initialisation with the OS and then appropriate updates to follow.
My original antennas had a bad connection with my card and it really effected the performance of my WiFi and Bluetooth. Bluetooth was very noticeable as the signal would cut out with slight movement. Replaced the antennas and I now have full WiFi and Bluetooth strength.
As a few other commenters have mentioned this test needs to be performed using averages in order to get a real answer because wifi signal always varies
The answer is a single no. Wifi 80011-AX (the most recent standard) is rated at 14Gbps The latest ethernet standard is 802.3ba-2010 is rated at 100Gbps.You are testing your internet speed not your local network speed and this will constantly vary. Also as you can see from the numbers you got it is only a fraction of what both WiFi and Ethernet standards are capable of.
Some internet companies will “bottleneck” your internet. Only those who keep close eye on their speeds notice. Companies do this to charge for higher speeds when you’re actually getting 1/2.
The real reason to use Ethernet over wifi is reliability or lower ping times. Ethernet is faster (Literally, not just bandwidth wise) than wifi which is signal based (More prone for blockage)
I get around 900Mbps to 950Mbps speeds on ethernet with AT&T which is incredible speeds but they don't offer these speeds for home internet anymore. I was one of the last homes to get these speeds offered to them!
Transfer files, main computer is plugged in with gigabit and the 5gb to 40gb file should be in ssd or nvme. Now copy the file into the test machine. If you want to test the wifi using speed test should get at least 800 to 1000Mbps speed. Else result it won't matter. 2.4Ghtz wifi speedtest should be around 100 to 140 ish Mbps 5Ghtz should around 300Mbps and wifi 6 should be around 400 to 1300Mbps depending on what kind of wifi 6 is that. Ax5 ax6 or 6e
Just built my first pc and was wondering why my WiFi was so shitty. Come to find out I never installed the antennas my motherboard came with!! Rookie mistake lol my connection went from 40mbs to 250mbs instantly after installing the antennas 👍🏼
