Is there any way to boost the throughput of a gigabyte fiber across wifi 6?

[Digideath]

Not long got gigabyte fiber installed and it's struggling a little with performance. For a start its a 900 meg connection routed via a wifi 6 router.

My main gaming pc gets around 700 - 800 meg

My laptop gets around 500 meg

My phone only gets 350 meg

My nintendo switch only gets 110 meg

I can confirm that everything is running on wifi 6. Just not sure about the switch though. Also am getting full bars on the wifi connections so im not getting a low signal.

Not what i was hoping for and i seriously had to tweek the switch just to get that out it. It's not my connection. I hooked my laptop up to the router via cable and it ran just over 900 meg during a speed test so im def getting the full 900 meg. Just not across wifi.

Am i missing something? Is there some way to tweek the wifi to get better throughput? Im new to gigabyte fiber and wifi 6 and ive this horrible feeling that im missing something simple here.

Also i have an old wifi 5 bt hub there and it seems to work better than the wifi 6 one. That's why im wondering if im missing something here. Wifi 6 is supposed to be better, not worse.

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

To get full speed you have to connect a physical cable to the network ports on the router to your devices. You will never get full speed over WiFi, even WiFi 6.

Also depending on the speed of your devices (like phone and nintendo switch) some devices aren't capable of going any faster than you are seeing because their hardware can't process internet speed any faster than they are already doing and there's nothing more you can do.

Just because you have gigabit internet doesn't mean all your devices can actually manage gigabit speeds on the internet.

[Jessie]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

some devices aren't capable of going any faster than you are seeing because their hardware can't process internet speed any faster than they are already doing and there's nothing more you can do.

Just because you have gigabit internet doesn't mean all your devices can actually manage gigabit speeds on the internet.

Pretty much this - the bottleneck isn't wifi or the network, it's the device cpu / data processing speed that is the limiting factor

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

I wanted to add some further information to you: It also could be the remote server on the other side of the internet you are connecting to doesn't support gigabit speed. For example: I'm just speculating here, and I don't know if it's true but Nintendo could be limiting download speeds on their servers to only 100 Mbps. If they did do that then you wouldn't be able to download any faster because the other side can't do it.

I have 450 Mbps internet here with Spectrum but the only places online I can find that will actually let me download things at my full internet speed is Steam, GOG, Intel's website, MSI's website, Nvidia's website, AMD's website, etc. I would say 'broadly' that the majority of sites on the internet out there typically go at 1/4 or less of my possible internet speed and there's nothing I or anyone else can do to make it any faster. This is just part of the internet.

The main function of getting gigabit internet for a house is not for 1 person to make 1 connection to the internet at gigabit. It's mostly so you can have multiple people all trying to download things at the same time without any one connection slowing down. Like if it was a family of say 4 adults and 5 kids and everyone was trying to watch youtube @ 4K at the same time. Or 1 person downloading updates on the switch, 1 person watching netflix in 4K, someone else downloading a game on steam, etc.

[Talby]

set up a local iperf server, you can test the pc / laptop / phone (not the switch, unless you get linux on it) and compare local speeds to see if you see similar results.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I don't see a reason to complain about the Phone and Switch speeds. 350Mbps is about the max they can do, regardless of being on the best 5G or WiFi-6.

Just because they are on WiFi-6 does not dictate that they are on 5Ghz, they could be on 2.4Ghz which will mean lower speeds, but higher signal coverage (further you can walk away from the router or hotspot before the signal drops out)

For the Laptop and Desktop, use Ethernet Cable such as CAT6A

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

I don't see a reason to complain about the Phone and Switch speeds. 350Mbps is about the max they can do, regardless of being on the best 5G or WiFi-6.

Linus has shown us some phone models getting up to 800 Mbps in Speedtest internet speed testing apps over WiFi, but I have no idea what wifi speed they were using or what phone model it was and it was a couple years ago.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes it's possible, depending on the phone. But you also have to figure Linus would have also been using decent WiFi-6 Router and maybe also Access Point as well.

Not sure what model of phone the OP has.

Also don't know the model of Router or other network equipment involved in the OP setup either.

Just having a single Wireless Router might not be enough. It might be more helpful to have a WiFi-6 "mesh" config so you can have multiple AP's and/or Antenna Boosters around the home, depending on the size of the home. For most homes that have Basement + 2 Floors above ground, then it's often best to place the Router in an area of the home that is as close to the center on the 1st floor as possible, to help ensure coverage throughout the whole home, as well as both of the other floors.

One thing you can try is, if all the devices involved supports 5Ghz over WiFi, then go into the Router and either Disable 2.4Ghz altogether, or configure the Router so that 2.4Ghz and 5GHz are on separate SSID. The default for most is they are on the same SSID, and then the device can use either 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz on that one SSID, depending on what it supports. However I have seen instances where this can be a problem that can cause certain devices to run into random wifi drop-out issues and such. For example; MyWiFiName and MyWiFiName_5G

[emoticorpse]

Mesh networks is my advice. I know it'll cost for another router (and you'd have to be lucky I suppose if your router can do that, I have ASUS routers), but it does work. Putting a second router in my room to get that signal I guess then feed the signal by lan cable to my pc is almost as good as my pc being lan connected to the main router itself.

EDIT: I guess same thing as a repeater, I just found mesh network much easier to set up.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Any Router can be bridged with another to act as a WiFi AP for the most part.

Mesh is a thing because we've seen the need to have multiple APs when you have a larger home or business building. And thus gave way to brands coming up with Router + multi-mesh AP bundles. It can be expensive, but at least it will be known and supported to all work together like a single unit of hardware. And if you have to go buy multiple APs later on, adding them isn't always so straight-forward, especially if mixing brands and such.

[LeviathanWon]

It's not gigabyte fiber, it's gigabit fiber.... and your getting ripped off... no wireless over population junk radio signals noise is going to help you. It's junk.... consider wiring your house/dwelling with the crappy copper or fiber to the desktop.

If you play video games or "want to get paid" being a charity case broad casting entertainment person, consider raising the prices for gigabit fiber so you can afford to pay the telecom worker to sit in the cold slicing glass at 2 am in the back of some early 2000's model van or better yet get out there in the cold splice it yourself.

You could have a 3 MEGABYTE connection both up and down that would be more then enough to run your games well as long as you has some-kind of static internet address with decent latency.

Most the sales junk these days is about running internet connections over poor quality networks so people can pay twice as much to wack off to netflicks/youboob/advertisements videos in your face, it's 90% garbage.

And most of the games that are worth playing are free and are scams unless you play with someone you know, even then the network packets will get dirty and find someway to scam you into believing you were somehow beaten fairly.