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20mbps download speed or lower when I should be getting 40-50! 2 or lower upload speed.
I have been having issues with my wifi for a few months now (since we moved into a new house) and I feel like I have tried everything and i’m out of ideas now so ANY help would be great! So around abo...
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Community Power UserWhat happens if you connect your computer to the router with an Ethernet cable?
- I’m less concerned about getting good speeds on ethernet. I seriously think there’s something wrong with my wifi and idk what. The thing is, even when none of my family is home, TVs are off, playstation is shut down, my phone’s wifi is off, I’d expect the wifi to be good without ethernet right? Because there’s literally no devices on the wifi. Yet when I do the speedtest (on wifi, not ethernet) it may start off at 40mbps for a few seconds then drop straight down to 10-20. I just can’t seem to figure out what is causing that. So my goal is to figure out what’s happening. Because just because i’m getting good wifi for one device using ethernet doesn’t mean the rest if my family is too.
If you are consistently getting good Ethernet speeds then your Internet speed is not the issue. As you suspected it's your WiFi.
What model phone you have?
Do you have other WiFi devices and if so are you able to do speed tests on them to cmpare?
How many other WiFi SSIDs do you see from your phone? Could be a channel congestion problem.
- 2 Wifi SSIDs (2.4G and 5G).
- The speed with ethernet is usually fast (45-50) mbps but sometimes I do not have access to it (PS4/phone)
