Skinny connection-wifi slow speed

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#291972 16-Dec-2021 19:55

Hi, I have reently moved to Skinny and I am using the Skinny provided wifi router. With ethernet cable, I can get about 700Mbps (with Fibre Max plan) download but when I am using wifi, the speed dropped to about 500Mbps.

I have put the laptop about 30cm away from the Skinny router and the speed is about the same. I have also tried with Asus XT8 router but the wifi speed is about the same. When I was with Vodafone (I was on the normal speed plan) and with both cable and wifi, I can get to 300Mbps easily.

I was using the Asus router with Vodafone and never have problem with speed. Any idea why the wkfi speed on Skinny is that slow?

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#2833668 16-Dec-2021 20:10

Nothing wrong here move along! That is not slow over WiFi

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#2833670 16-Dec-2021 20:13

You're either maxing out the Skinny's AC WiFi solution or you're maxing out your devices WiFi.

Nothing wrong here it's working as expected and intended.

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#2833673 16-Dec-2021 20:20

Most likely cause is the testing medium, as Linux so nicely put it.
What problem are you having with your wifi only going at 520/350?

Wifi is best effort, that is showing both your own router, plus the SM1 are truly giving their best efforts, real world use is always going to be smaller numbers, though those numbers are still impressive and not something any provider will see as a problem.

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#2833679 16-Dec-2021 20:40

it's also worth mentioning that the Skinny provided router is an excellent router (same as Spark / BigPipe) and much better than you will get from most other ISPs.

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#2833690 16-Dec-2021 21:29

Don't ever expect gigabit on wifi unless you are prepared to spend mega bucks on Aruba Wifi6 (or similar) access points and ensure all your devices support wifi6

even then you will need 160mhz wide channels which will make you more prone to interference

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#2833694 16-Dec-2021 21:45

Your connection is working perfectly and nothing is wrong.

You need to understand how WiFi works, and there are literally hundreds of posts on here by me along with a number of blog posts.

Your speed is determined by your MCS connect rate which you can determine here - you will get around 50 - 60% of the PHY throughput in the real world http://mcsindex.com/

Your maximum PHY rate is going to be determined by your device, so since the AP is a 4x4:4 device I assume your laptop you're connecting is probably only 3x3:3 hence the 500Mbps limit. You can determine your PHY rate by looking at your WiFi adapter and seeing the connect rate.

At 30cm you should have found your speeds slow down anyway as you'll be overloading the front end of the radio which will impact performance.

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#2833720 17-Dec-2021 05:59

Thank you everyone for the reply. The router I have got has wifi 6 and I have wifi 6 on the phone as well and I am getting about 250Mbps on the phone.

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#2833723 17-Dec-2021 07:00

Hi, just because its WiFi6 does not automatically imply that it will do near Gig speeds, practical considerations such as other interfering wifi systems may limit what bandwidth is used, as others have said, what you are getting looks fine.

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#2833724 17-Dec-2021 07:19

eatout:

Thank you everyone for the reply. The router I have got has wifi 6 and I have wifi 6 on the phone as well and I am getting about 250Mbps on the phone.

Most phones are only 2x2:2 so assuming you're running 40MHz channels (running 80MHz in a home unless you have an AP in every room is a terrible idea as you'll have very poor 5GHz coverage across a whole house) means a PHY rate of somewhere just over 500Mbps depending on exact settings so real world of just over 250Mbps. If you had a 3x3:3 laptop connected to that very same AP with the same settings you would see faster speeds.

Rather than being convinced you have an issue I can only encourage you to learn about WiFi, and how PHY rates are calculated, and how the number of chains on CPE means different speeds on different devices connected to the same AP. We can all type replies for days but until you understand these basic concepts you're clearly not going to understand why you don't actually have an issue.

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#2833725 17-Dec-2021 07:25

There are people in the country who would love speeds like that. Those speeds are actually really good. No issues there.