bandwidth changes

[420Gaming]

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??

[420Gaming]

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

[Kirigaya_Kazuto]

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

[420Gaming]

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?

[Mustrum]

@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.

[Kirigaya_Kazuto]

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

[bobpullen]

@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