Wifi Bandwidth Test
Hollis Abdelkarim
My Arlo Pro 2 cameras are slowing down the WiFi. I have tested this by unplugging from the router. When Arlo is unplugged my WiFi speeds go way up. But then When I plug Arlo back in the WiFi spends drop way down. What can be done about this?
After I got the Cable company/Internet to come out to my house on the fourth time. They rewired all of the cable, for the internet. The speeds where back up to 80-105 mbps. I have not had a problem since that time. It took a lot of fighting with the cable Company, they wanted to blame Arlo for the slow speeds.
Yes I tried to move the bass station away from the router, that did not help. I am measuring the speed drop with Speedtest.net. I'm not sure what you mean by apply to ever wifi client I have. I will run a speed test with the Arlo hub plugged into the router, I will get speeds of 8 - 22Mbps. I will then unplug the Arlo hub from the router and run the speed test, I will then gets speeds of 98-116Mbpd
Yes I have tried rebooting router, and rebooting the Arlo bass. I have tested everything. The internet speeds are fast when Arlo bass is not pulled into the router. I had my Internet provider come out and check the lines and they said those were all good.
Did you ever figure anything out for this? I just recently discovered the same problem. We had a storm and power went out reset everything back as it was (my base station is wired). I noticed over a few days there was a lag and just little things so I ran a speed test. I have Gig speed and would get 6-850(wifi6) on my iPhone and now i was getting 90-100. Same on MacBook. I thought it was my router system. Did the same thing. Pulled the plug. Speed went right back up. Thanks for any help.
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Well you can just look at the network in the control panel and see if the LAN is connected at 10/100/1000 mbit. But that doesn't tell you the whole story. If you want to test the speed between two PCs, you really need a tool to do it. One tool I've used that seems pretty good is 'iperf', it's just a commandline EXE, doesn't require any install. 'ping' will tell you the latency, but not the available bandwidth.
You can try psping from Sysinternals which can be used on a similar way to iperf. You need to run the executable on server mode in one machine and the same executable on client mode on a second machine.
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