Although I have a fair bit of general computer knowledge, I don't have much network experience and don't know much about it. When I run Speedtest, I consistently get a ping of around 56 - 60, download 30 mb/s, upload around 20 mb/s.
Having recently heard that some people can get up to 70 mb/s with 4G, I became curious as to whether our setup was doing everything it might be capable of so I decided to run a quick comparison test. I took a new laptop and ran Speedtest via wi-fi while sitting next to the downstairs router. I got 39 down and 20+ up, slightly better than usual. I then took the same laptop upstairs and ran several tests using a LAN connection. On one of the tests I connected the laptop directly to the Huawei with a new cable about two metres long. All of the LAN tests, including a later one on a different cable, gave the same result: similar ping but around 5mb/s down and nearly the same up. WTF?
After those tests I immediately went back to my first location (downstairs next to the TP Link router) and did the test again via wi-fi. I got the same result as earlier, 39 mb/s down and over 20 mb/s up. So apparently the wi-fi fed by LAN is significantly faster than a direct LAN connection. This doesn't seem to make sense, at least not to me. Can anyone with more knowledge explain this? What am I actually measuring with those tests? Can it be that my laptop just has a slow LAN port? I can't make sense of these findings.
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