oddly different broadband speeds

[Rob Beattie]

I've got a Macbook and a Mac Mini, both running High Sierra. They sit within about a foot of each other.

I just ran the Google Broadband Speed Test and got the following.

Office wireless (MacBook)
Down - 14.2Mbps
Up - 3.24Mbps

Office wireless (Mac Mini)
Down - 33.9Mbps
Up - 28.7Mbps

I wonder why there was such a difference?

Rob

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[Jason Davies]

were they running at the same time? Could simply be that one began an upload just before the other and hogged the bandwidth.

You'd need to have all other things shut off (and plenty of background apps use the net) and run a series of tests to get anything worth looking into. Could easily be the other way round next time. There's a small possibility of different hardware having bigger capacity but I think that's been stable for quite a long time (you don't say how old they are).

Cheers
J

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[Rob Beattie]

No, ran one and then the other. Mini is older than the Macbook (not sure of heritage bought off eBay). Mini running Logic Pro X and Safari, Macbook running Chrome, Bear and a few utilities. Oh, DropBox as well.

Rob

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[Jason Davies]

Likely possibilities in roughly ascending order of likelihood:

• Different hardware capable of different speeds (look up serial numbers to see what the wireless cards are, then google/wikipedia them to see what standard they use)
• random fluctuation in DSL based on local use (run 10 tests, see what happens)
• background activity (eg dropbox) hogging the connection (it shares it with the test) on one machine

Diagnostics is not the same as solutions. Is it presenting an actual problem? If so, a wired connection (ethernet) would be the obvious suggestion.

Cheers
J

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