topic Re: bandwidth changes in Broadband & Landline

bandwidth changes

420Gaming — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:22:30 GMT

hiya, so me and my partner BOTH have the same pcs, literally identical, in the same room and everything, that being said, her pc fluctuates between 50-60mbps and mine goes between 6.5 and 7mbps... download speed! how is that even possible!? any way i can get that speed on mine too??

Re: bandwidth changes

420Gaming — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:29:47 GMT

sorry, i forgot to add, we both have dual band wifi networking cards which are set up exactly the same too!

Re: bandwidth changes

Kirigaya_Kazuto — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:55:07 GMT

Hi 420Gaming

A few things to check:

Are they on the same Wifi Band?

Is the Tx/Rx rate the same (should be 866mb/s)

Try an iPerf test between your PC and hers, should rule out the wifi link speed being the issue

Re: bandwidth changes

420Gaming — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:59:26 GMT

Tx/Rx? theyre both on the same band, both cards are set up the exact same way, and how would i perform an iPerf test?

Re: bandwidth changes

Mustrum — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:21:13 GMT

@420Gaming which router do you have and where is it in relation to the two PC's?

Are you doing your speed tests to the same site? Are you doing them at the same time?

Is there a difference when the other PC is switched off?

It could be something simple such as something in the way procking your PC;s WiFi signal, or an app on your PC hogging your bandwidth.

Re: bandwidth changes

Kirigaya_Kazuto — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:52:38 GMT

Tx/Rx rate is the more technical term for Link speed to the router

For an iPerf test, you'd need to run Windows Sub System for Linux (I think) on one of the PC's to act as the server

Re: bandwidth changes

bobpullen — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:01:27 GMT

@420Gaming - how are you measuring speed?

Are you sure you're not confusing megabits with megabytes? Only reason I ask, is that 6.5 megabytes/s = 52 megabits/s, which would align with what your partner sees.

For TX/RX rates, you can check this by running the following from a Windows command prompt if you know how?

C:\Users\Bob>netsh wlan show interfaces There is 1 interface on the system: Name : WiFi Description : Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 GUID : 923bfac2-1e25-46e1-9bf3-cf5b1716d47c Physical address : 34:41:5d:47:00:00 Interface type : Primary State : connected SSID : My_WiFi_Name BSSID : 0a:b6:87:90:00:00 Network type : Infrastructure Radio type : 802.11ac Authentication : WPA2-Personal Cipher : CCMP Connection mode : Profile Band : 5 GHz Channel : 100 Receive rate (Mbps) : 866.7 <--- **HERE** Transmit rate (Mbps) : 866.7 <--- **HERE** Signal : 91% Profile : My_WiFi_Name Hosted network status : Not available