@@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
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)
Disable energy efficient features for the ethernet such as "gigabit lite", "green ethernet", "power saving mode" and make sure your MTU is calculated correctly
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 😬
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
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 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.
@@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"
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”
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Bro I just got a new pc and I was wondering what those little sticks were. My internet was SO SLOW until I saw this and realized they were extenders. Thank you so much
It can if you have the right router and stuff. Like I have spectrum and I get 1gig download and upload on wired and Wi-Fi but I get less ping on Wi-Fi and more on Ethernet. It’s weird. But most companies are trying to go “wireless” and they purposely make Ethernet slower
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
And here's me, sitting on my 2mb per second wifi because the fibre cable that will give me speeds of at least 100mg per second stops at the pole outside my house with with they want £700 to simply string an extra line from the box. If I do that I'd be paying for everyone else to have fibre as well but they only have to pay £50 to have their line attached
I have notice for me this happens either for one of two reasons, the established connection speed of the LAN ports between PC an Router is negotiated at 100 Mbps instead of 1000/2500 Mbps. The next is QOS throttles LAN bandwidth since the MAC of the LAN is specified for a particular network priority.
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
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)
It's typical that ISP gives 1/10 download speed as upload speed because uploading is used to be uncommon. The world moves forward but the ISP hasn't yet.
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
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.
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.
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.
burst rates in your ISPs shaper/QoS queue repeat the tests about 10x with about 10-20 minutes between every test where you do not occupy a lot of your bandwidth
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!
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.
The motherboard looks very similar to an ASRock 50 series Steel Legend, all of those boards have modern WiFi , but I believe still only have 1gig ethernet ports. Some modern WiFi standards might out-pace that speed ethernet. Though the speed test tests the internet, not necessarily your connection to the router, as that speed is usually capped at a constant regardless.
Run Ethernet test at least 2-3 times because I’m order to save data the isp will not have full speed routes to you until you need it. Also if you have any eco mode enabled anywhere, that really messes with data stability.
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 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.
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
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.
Gotta use ookla so you get latency as well. Helps also to run constant ping to the router. Speed is great and all, but most people with gaming PC's (your audience) would care about latency more. Do more tests and average the results as well.
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)
