Download Speed Not The Same As Speed Test ((TOP))
Rosie Wirsing
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Orbi Application Speed Test = 1,056 down. On same exact iphone device connected to same Orbi main RBR850 router using Chrome and the Ookla Speedtest is getting 218 down. Notebook book computer is getting around 295 down. Also having lag issues with Notebook computer during Teams calls. I have tried switching between the WPA2 and WPA+WPA2 security protocols, that has not had much impact.
When you run the speedtest in the orbi app, it actually hosts the tests on the main router. So it isn't based on your wifi speeds. When you run it on the speedtest app, it hosts the test on the device the speedtest is being run on. Thats why you see a speed difference.
Thank you for the quick reply. That makes sense how the speeds are different, is my expectation that my devices should be able to have 1,000 down reasonable - especially with the main router wifi having the bandwidth available at 1,000+?
But problem with that is that its link speed. In practice, throughput (actual speed) tends to be roughly 55-65% of link speed. Some higher quality devices might hit a little above that but not a whole lot. So in practice, you expect around that 600-800mbps if you have an 2x2 AX devices and you're close to the router.
Can anyone explain why I'm getting this download speed for this newly upgraded internet we got from Spectrum but for some reason on Steam it's not the speed it should be? My dad downloaded a 40 gb game in about 8 minutes, he brought his old laptop to my room and connected the same ethernet cable to his laptop from my wall and it was also an 8 minute download with about 64 MB/s.
I got 320MG download speed when testing. But when I download files I only get 10MG maximum. Is there something wrong with my ISP or router? I am using ethernet to avoid interferences and get the best of my internet. Any tips, help, or explanations are very appreciated
You can't really compare the upload speed on the website to the speed of the Dropbox app. There's a lot more going on during a sync than a simple upload. Each file you sync is hashed, compressed, then transferred, encrypted, and stored on the Dropbox servers. That entire process is included in the aggregate KB/s speed that's displayed in the Dropbox sync status. In other words, the speed reported by Dropbox is not just a transfer speed, but the speed at which the entire process is being completed. With the website, it's just a simple upload and everything else is done behind the scenes after the upload is completed.
Also, while most ISPs and speed test sites display their results in bits (kilo or mega), the speeds reported by Dropbox are in Bytes. Be sure to do the conversion before comparing. Your 400KB/s transfer speed as reported by Dropbox is approximately 3.2Mb/s.
My other PC in a different location with the same internet speeds has the dropbox app at that point is uploading 1gb within a minute or two as well. But this PC and app, the internet speed is the same but the upload speed is throttled big time. I'm not sure what to point at because again, the disparity is huge. I work in VFX and I need to upload 10-100 gb/day. 1 gb taking 1 hour to upload is just not feasible.
So why is my downloads speed 26,000 kb/s and upload speed crawling at 160 kb/s in the app? That's my big question. I can see what you wrote making sense, but it doesn't account for the same file tested at a different location/PC with the exact same speeds on internet speed tests, but uploading much faster?
I then figured it was just a setting with their router so I got rid of that and went with eero. Eero is now also having the same issue, its only getting 400+ mbps when the charter one is still doing 800+. I've also tried messing with all of the network setting for the eero router as well and nothing seems to push 800+ mbps like the spectrum router, under the same conditions, same computer I'm testing on etc.
I've run into the same situation. Eero is fantastic for internet speeds of 200 Mbps or below for wireless transmission speeds. Wired speeds from Eero will give you the gigabit speeds that you're paying for. The only wireless mesh system that I know of that will be able to wirelessly transmit anything close to your internet speed would be the Orbi but they are known to have connection issues and are very slow to update their firmware to fix the issues. I know firsthand because I just switched from Orbi to Eero because of the shoddy firmware / connection issues. My devices would constantly drop connection. The worst offender was my AppleTV running a Plex client. I'd be in the middle of watching a movie and it would suddenly drop the connection. I'm looking forward to Eero introducing new hardware that will be able to keep up with gigabit internet wirelessly without the need for a wired backhaul. Hopefully the new hardware will support WiFi 6 and have a more robust radio backhaul. Orbi has just announced new hardware that supports WiFi 6 but I don't want to go back. I like the beauty, simplicity, stability and support that eero seems to provide.
Called eero tech support yesterday. They changed my DNS server to point to Google, and (oddly) that seemed to help for the call (bringing observed speeds to 400Mbps on both laptop and iPad), but since the call, speeds have dropped back to 200Mbps, even at the same physical location. Connecting laptop to router via Ethernet shows closer to 900Mbps. Pretty frustrating.
Meanwhile, a friend using Orbi AX6000 (wifi 6) sees > 500Mbps. (Of course, this is NOT a competition; just a data point showing that it is possible to see wireless speeds higher than is observed from eero pro.)
Here is where the frustration comes in. I have had my ISP over on a number of occasions thinking it was them. They measure the speed at the ONT, everything is good. They measure speed speed via a wired connection to the back of the Eero base, everything is good. We then use a laptop connected to the back of the Eero base via Ethernet, everything is good. So why is the wired test in the app so much slower than those three wired tests?
Same issue. I've been communicating with Eero support for a few weeks trying to troubleshoot the issue. I doubt this is a hardware issue. Since I will see tests on the Eero app with the expected speed (400Mpbs) once in a while.
I was watching a video the other day about internet connection. This guy made a very good point about how your internet comes into your house. His comment was about the line coming into your house HAS to make a direct connection to your router.Most ISPs will set the line coming in and branch it out several times. This means there's a lot of other connections before it gets to your router. So basically it should go directly to the router then out over your WiFi system. He said the speeds will be where they should be. The other way degrades your speeds. Interesting because I hadn't thought about it. Most out there probably know this but for the rest of us, it's a good lesson.
I also have experienced a drop in speed since January 6, 2020. I ran speed tests through the wire from my device to the modem(Arris 6190) and got the 250mbps. Same test through the eero produced 140mbps. I'm at a loss how to resolve this. I've tried resetting just about everything, but I'm a bit stuck now.
DSL currently stands for Digital Subscriber Line, it used to be Digital Subscriber Loop. Most DSL lines are asymmetric lines or ADSL. ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. This means the speed is not the same between uploading and downloading. With any connection the download speed is usually higher than upload speed since most people download information more often than they upload. For users that need their download speed to be equal to upload speed, they can install a Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL).
Exactly, smb and nfs should be faster than FTP in this case.
Seems something wrong with SMB and NFS implementation in Infuse, looks like issues with TCP, because I get 100Mbps via WiFi and 250Mbps via Cable, so speed depends on physical link speed, but 4-6x slower than physical speed for SMB and NFS. For FTP and WebDav speed is very close to the physical link speed.
The only sensible comparison was with my MacBook which has a WiFi connectivity close to my iPad Pro.
It uses the SMB client embedded in macOS and I manage to achieve consistent speeds of around 300Mbps on the very same files.
Of course, I am not expecting to be exactly on par with FTP/Jellyfin in terms of throughput, as SMB is more verbose, but here we are talking about 25% of the performance, or less than half the speed I manage to achieve on the very same files on my Mac.
Download speed measures how fast information can transfer to you. It affects things like how long it takes to download large files, update games, or show pages with lots of photos. Download speed is measured in megabits per second (Mbps). One gigabit is 1000 Mbps, two gigabits is 2000 Mbps.
Upload speed measures how fast information can transfer from you. It affects things like how you appear on video calls, how fast you can upload files to the cloud, and how long it takes to add attachments to emails. Upload speed is measured in megabits per second (Mbps).
Jitter measures the fluctuations in the speeds at which a stream of data is sent. A high jitter score can affect streaming and video calls, making them look and sound choppy or glitchy. Jitter is measured in milliseconds (ms).
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