Internet cable not improving speed?

[KillerKrieg]

Sorry, this is not steam related exactly, but I have been told that if you are connected to wifi as opposed to having a hard wire connection it can slow your connection to the internet, and I recently bought an internet cable, a CelerCable - Flat Ethernet Cable CAT6 50 Feet with Snagless RJ45 Connectors, Slim Network Cable Flat Cat 6 Ethernet Patch Cable, Internet Patch Cable Computer Networking Cord, 50ft (White) to be exact. My normal speed is about 8.43 Mbps download
0.70 Mbps upload and the chord doesn't seem to be adding any significant boost of speed. I was wondering if there is anything too having a hardwire connection other than plug and play and if I am doing something wrong. My internet connection isn't the fastest, but however slow it is it should be faster hardwire at least right? How long from plugging your chord into your router does it take to start seeing results also? Am I supposed to give it about 10 mins?

[Muppet among Puppets]

What is your lines speed?
Thats how fast it can be with cable, and probably with wifi.
Cable is just more sure.

[KillerKrieg]

Not sure about lines speed, how do you check that?

[Muppet among Puppets]

Read the contract

[Ogami]

Use this test: http://www.speedtest.net/ and post the results here.

Make sure to not have any downloads or streams running at the same time.

[KillerKrieg]

That is what I was using. That is where the statistics of my average speed were coming from in the original post.

[Muppet among Puppets]

What internetspeed did you buy?

[Supafly]

Cable only affects speed you can receive and send between your system and your router/modem. Cable can will connection more stable and consistent versus wifi and will improve speed if your system gets a weak wifi signal due to distance or obstacles that is causing low speed.

If you have slow speed on both wired and wireless it is due to your ISP/internet package. What internet speed do you pay for?

[Seven7]

Originally posted by Sgt. Savage:

Flat 6e

flat cables have bad speed...
1 normal round 5e better
2 you use ISP's device, where settings locked to WiFi port
3 speed can't be higher than speed to modem\router, and even lower (loss of speed when processing packets by the router processor)

[Archibold Wessex]

The difference between wifi and ethernet connection is greater if you have lots of obstacles between the router and the wireless device. So, if you don't have many barriers between the router and wireless device the cables will not improve the speed between the router and wired device very much. That said, I tried a wifi dongle in my desktop for the first time recently and was impressed that the signal/speeds between it and the router downstairs and across the house from me are remarkably good!

Seven7 mentioned the WiFi port - it can be worth checking and changing the router port you use if you have neighbours nearby using the same ports on their devices (they can cause interference to each other). You would need to check your ISP's or manufacturer's instructions for how to do that with your equipment. I am not sure how much speed can be improved by that though as I've not tried that myself.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Seven7:

Originally posted by Sgt. Savage:

Flat 6e

flat cables have bad speed...
1 normal round 5e better

It's about specs, and distance. And "speed" is always the same; if the cable is bad he'll loose packets. Running a ping from his box to the router would clear that up nicely.

Example:

C:\Users\Christian>ping -n 10 gatekeeper | find /V "Reply from"

Pinging gatekeeper.shadowworld [10.1.1.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Ping statistics for 10.1.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

You need to adjust the IP address of your router, and maybe increase the count to do more than 10 pings.

If the loss isn't reported as "0" the cable is bad. If you get 0 loss the cable is fine.

The 0ms reported are because Windows 7 doesn't do fractional times; if I run an equivalent command on the router it shows like this:

christian@gatekeeper:~$ ping -c10 -q Desktop
PING Desktop (10.1.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- Desktop ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 8998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.213/0.228/0.296/0.023 ms