Wifi, faster than wired

[Harry Bloomfield]

Not a problem, I just don't understand why....

Fibre comes into a Arris router, which is located in the loft of my semi. Downstairs, on laptop using wifi, speed test shows I get the full fibre speed, plus a bit of 150/160Mbs.

The Arris, connects via wired LAN, to a second router, a Netgear WNDR3400v2, set up to work as a simple switch/wifi access point, and located on the ground floor.

From the back of the Netgear, there is a wired LAN cable, which goes back up to loft, terminated there, then a cable goes from that termination, to supply a desktop system in the small bedroom on first floor. A speedtest on that desktop system, shows a regular throughput of only 90Mbs.

Connecting my laptop, to the ground floor router, I get a similar 90Mbps. That suggests to me, that either the Netgear is causing the restriction on throughput, or the cable linking Arris to the Netgear.

The reason the cable feeding the desktop goes down, up to loft, then down to the desktop on the first floor, is that the Arris only had no spare ports, and the was a spare port at the Netgear. The cables were there in place, and also spare.

 

[AdrianUK]

That router only has 10/100 Mbps ports! You need one with 1 Gbps if you want full throttle

 

[mattylad]

I second that, get a new router.
Surely if your ISP supplied you a speed faster than 100mb they ought to have also supplied a router capable of passing higher speeds?

Or have you got an olde router and just changed ISP connection?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

That router only has 10/100 Mbps ports! You need one with 1 Gbps if you want full throttle

I think I sort of realised that, soon after posting. It does all that I need, and more, as is - so it will do.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Or have you got an olde router and just changed ISP connection?

The fibre router, is the one providing fast coverage, it's my older, ground floor router, which is limited.

 

[mattylad]

Then change that.
A gb router or switch should cover your wired connections much better.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Then change that.
A gb router or switch should cover your wired connections much better.

No need, it does all I need and more, speed wise - I just had not realised it was limited to 100Mbps, when it's spec. suggested it could manage 300Mbps over wifi.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

No need, it does all I need and more, speed wise - I just had not realised it was limited to 100Mbps, when it's spec. suggested it could manage 300Mbps over wifi.

My reason for sticking with the old 100Mbs Netgear, was that it has a USB port on the rear, which I make use of, for a USB memory stick, with it's data available on my LAN. I recently swapped ISP's, to go to fibre broadband, so my old Plusnet Hub One became redundant. What I hadn't realised was, that the Hub One supported 1Gbs. I'd tried a USB stick in it before, but failed to get it to work.

In the meantime, I ordered a 8way 1Gbs dumb switch, so I thought I might as well have another go at getting the Hub One to work with the stick. A bit of Googling, and I finally managed to get it going. At the moment, it is completely replacing the old Netgear router. My eventual plan, is to replace it with the switch, and just have it plugged in the switch as a sort of cheap NAS.