So after i was put on parental controls i started having problems

[꒐Ryouichi꒐]

im would only get areound 1.7 megabits when i normaly get around 7-9 my father is being unresonable *saying some bs about how we having offline electronics is making it lagy* So asking him for help is out of the question. we have linksys smart wifi and one other thing its a app err somthing What im thinking is that there is a cap on how many megabits you are able too use but thats just my uneducated guess i dont really know where else i should ask for stuff like this so if you know about websites just comment

[Azeroticus]

This scenario has a lot of different things that could be involved.

Parental Control on most routers means bandwidth nerf, using a slow pre-configurated DNS (Set standard, but can be reconfigurated perhaps) or responsive time on connectivity which cuts down the download to filter.

If I should guess, because I can't see the entire network topology and configurations, you probably got a parental control with a bandwidth nerf. If that's not the case, the parental control is bugged and you need to disable it in order to make it work OR contact Linksys customer support and ask them a solution to fix this.

[AzKat 🐔]

"bs about offline elctronics making it laggy"

You're on a wifi connection right? Wifi connection is ~6 times or 3 times slower than normal wired connection.

[Azeroticus]

A WiFi connection isn't 6 or 3 times slower than normal wired connection, it's just not AS stable with cable. It all depends on equipment to handle the bandwidth, trafficking and the range of the router to send the signal.

[AzKat 🐔]

Originally posted by Damascosa:

A WiFi connection isn't 6 or 3 times slower than normal wired connection, it's just not AS stable with cable. It all depends on equipment to handle the bandwidth, trafficking and the range of the router to send the signal.

in my case it's down to 3mb/s from 20mb/s, at full signal with the router right next to me.

That's why I said 6-3 times slower.

However, I don't have a normal router, I have a router that you don't even find on the market, one with a ROUND fiber entry in it (exactly like what TV's use)

[Azeroticus]

Ah, that's not very common. I think that analog then?

But yeah, like I said in my previous post. It all depends on equipment that could handle. I used to have a build-in modem / TV receiver from my provider and only received 1/2 of my actual speed. I expanded my network topology with an Asus AC router together with a wider broadcast antenna. 25 meter / 82 feet still gives me full signal of 200 Megabits (25 megabytes in actual theory). However, I prefer using cable, but my laptop is a different case tho.

On topic:
To the original poster: It would be best to list your situation other than a vague description.
Like: Are you using wifi or ethernet?
Does the rest of the computers in your house have any problems with this?
Did the change into download speed drop only happened when Parental Control was applied?

And some PC tech forum boards are mostly everywhere, google is your friend to check if multiple people had this issue and had a fix for it.

PS: Multiple computers on your network doing stuff like watching streams (Netflix, Youtube or Twitch) could interfere your download speeds. Probably check again if no computer is on or doing any downloading activities.

[꒐Ryouichi꒐]

Originally posted by Damascosa:

Ah, that's not very common. I think that analog then?

But yeah, like I said in my previous post. It all depends on equipment that could handle. I used to have a build-in modem / TV receiver from my provider and only received 1/2 of my actual speed. I expanded my network topology with an Asus AC router together with a wider broadcast antenna. 25 meter / 82 feet still gives me full signal of 200 Megabits (25 megabytes in actual theory). However, I prefer using cable, but my laptop is a different case tho.

On topic:
To the original poster: It would be best to list your situation other than a vague description.
Like: Are you using wifi or ethernet?
Does the rest of the computers in your house have any problems with this?
Did the change into download speed drop only happened when Parental Control was applied?

And some PC tech forum boards are mostly everywhere, google is your friend to check if multiple people had this issue and had a fix for it.

PS: Multiple computers on your network doing stuff like watching streams (Netflix, Youtube or Twitch) could interfere your download speeds. Probably check again if no computer is on or doing any downloading activities.

well when im the only one on i normally get 1.7 but when other people get on i almost never get 1 mega bit and yes my parents dont want wires around the house so he made me use wifi and yes it is just me and everyone else on the parental controls who have lagy stuff. We have a max of i think 15 mega bits and like 10-14 diffrent things on the network but at most there is 7 on at once 2 phones 2 ipads 2 xbox 360 only one is used tho and where i live we have a max amount of internet we can use sadly

[BossGalaga]

Someone with administrative access to your router needs to change the settings. Nothing we can help you with.

[꒐Ryouichi꒐]

there are two diffrent broadcasters on the router we have there is a 2.4 and a 5.0 this is a little off topic but im not able to see the 5.0 ghz when my phone laptop are able to not my computer i am around 15 feet away from the router with one wall infront of it to my direction its not a cheap router so thats out of the question i looked around at the router settings and wasnt able to find a setting that had somthing to do with the max internet thats able to be used but it could be on the other app yes the change of download speed only happen when i was put on parental controls when i went on my fathers ipad pages where loading faster than my computer and that one is not on the parental controls but i will do my reading on this to see if i can fnd anyone else with the same problem

[꒐Ryouichi꒐]

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

Someone with administrative access to your router needs to change the settings. Nothing we can help you with.

i can get to the man router page not the app one i would need to ask my father fo that one

[Azeroticus]

If you can't see the 5 GHz frequency, it's because your wireless network adapter doesn't have it.

The linksys forums mention about parental controls not consistent or kinda buggy.
https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Parental-Controls-Not-Consistently-Working-Linksyssmartwifi-on/td-p/834182
I think it would be best to contact technical support about this matter, since they know their product better than we do (hopefully..).

If they can't help you and the router is less than a week old, return it and get a good one. My recommendations are Asus, Netgear or TP-link. My experience with Linksys aren't that fabulous. It still haunts me sadly.

If you can't return the router or anything, you could always try:
- An AC-WiFi adapter that you can plug in with USB. (This would be the cheapest methode)
- A powerline (A hybrid kind of cabled ethernet).