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Please boost to try and reach some one far more knowledgeable than me.
Network Speed Issues.
Today I finally had my fibre to the home activated.
But I'm struggling with speeds to some wifi devices.
5ghz band is reporting a connection speed of over 800mb to my mediaserver and main pc... and 650Mb to my phone.
Networks have always been a blind spot for me.
Router is a Fritzbox 7530AX, with an older Fritxbox 7530 being used in mesh.
There are also some powerline adapters in the house to extend wifi out to the converted garage where my mum's bedroom is, and the wifi dongle for the solar/battery system as the signal was too weak to reach from either of the routers.
Current speeds are
Main PC 100Mb down, 65Mb up
Server 120M down 65Mb up
Phone 510Mb down 68Mb upFibre to the home is 550Mbps down and 75Mb up.
At first i thought it's signal strength, but that's good. Then perhaps distance from the router... Except other devices in the same room are getting 650Mb connections just fine.
Then I thought it was the wifi dongle, a D-Link DWA X1850 AX1800 Wifi 6 USB adapter.
Both computers use the same dongles, router is wifi 6 as are the dongles. The shield TV box in the room is only wifi 5, but gets 650Mb and the Pixel 6 Pro phone gets 650Mb.
I'm stumped. I've even disconnected the mesh router and forced all connections through the main router which is in the room below... about 3m away with only a wooden floor between.
Any help would be appreciated.
For reference, my previous ADSL connection was only giving me 40Mb... So I had no idea that I was getting such dreadful speeds across my home network.
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Please boost to try and reach some one far more knowledgeable than me.
Network Speed Issues.
Today I finally had my fibre to the home activated.
But I'm struggling with speeds to some wifi devices.
5ghz band is reporting a connection speed of over 800mb to my mediaserver and main pc... and 650Mb to my phone.
Networks have always been a blind spot for me.
Router is a Fritzbox 7530AX, with an older Fritxbox 7530 being used in mesh.
There are also some powerline adapters in the house to extend wifi out to the converted garage where my mum's bedroom is, and the wifi dongle for the solar/battery system as the signal was too weak to reach from either of the routers.
Current speeds are
Main PC 100Mb down, 65Mb up
Server 120M down 65Mb up
Phone 510Mb down 68Mb upFibre to the home is 550Mbps down and 75Mb up.
At first i thought it's signal strength, but that's good. Then perhaps distance from the router... Except other devices in the same room are getting 650Mb connections just fine.
Then I thought it was the wifi dongle, a D-Link DWA X1850 AX1800 Wifi 6 USB adapter.
Both computers use the same dongles, router is wifi 6 as are the dongles. The shield TV box in the room is only wifi 5, but gets 650Mb and the Pixel 6 Pro phone gets 650Mb.
I'm stumped. I've even disconnected the mesh router and forced all connections through the main router which is in the room below... about 3m away with only a wooden floor between.
Any help would be appreciated.
For reference, my previous ADSL connection was only giving me 40Mb... So I had no idea that I was getting such dreadful speeds across my home network.
@Anomnomnomaly Is the issue limited to the computers with the USB dongle?
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@Anomnomnomaly Is the issue limited to the computers with the USB dongle?
It does appear to be, I don't have any other dongles I can test.
I have plans to network up the house. I've got sockets installed in 2 bedrooms with cables going up into the loft. I was going to put a 2.5GB switch up there, and then run a cable down the outside of the house and into the new router location.
I know the router is only 1GB but I was thinking future needs.
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It does appear to be, I don't have any other dongles I can test.
I have plans to network up the house. I've got sockets installed in 2 bedrooms with cables going up into the loft. I was going to put a 2.5GB switch up there, and then run a cable down the outside of the house and into the new router location.
I know the router is only 1GB but I was thinking future needs.
@Anomnomnomaly I see. Is there anything else connected to the USB ports?
Depending on the internal architecture, USB ports can (and usually do) share bandwidth between devices.
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@Anomnomnomaly I see. Is there anything else connected to the USB ports?
Depending on the internal architecture, USB ports can (and usually do) share bandwidth between devices.
the only other USB devices I have plugged into both systems are KB/Mouse and a bluietooth dongle on one of them.
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Please boost to try and reach some one far more knowledgeable than me.
Network Speed Issues.
Today I finally had my fibre to the home activated.
But I'm struggling with speeds to some wifi devices.
5ghz band is reporting a connection speed of over 800mb to my mediaserver and main pc... and 650Mb to my phone.
Networks have always been a blind spot for me.
Router is a Fritzbox 7530AX, with an older Fritxbox 7530 being used in mesh.
There are also some powerline adapters in the house to extend wifi out to the converted garage where my mum's bedroom is, and the wifi dongle for the solar/battery system as the signal was too weak to reach from either of the routers.
Current speeds are
Main PC 100Mb down, 65Mb up
Server 120M down 65Mb up
Phone 510Mb down 68Mb upFibre to the home is 550Mbps down and 75Mb up.
At first i thought it's signal strength, but that's good. Then perhaps distance from the router... Except other devices in the same room are getting 650Mb connections just fine.
Then I thought it was the wifi dongle, a D-Link DWA X1850 AX1800 Wifi 6 USB adapter.
Both computers use the same dongles, router is wifi 6 as are the dongles. The shield TV box in the room is only wifi 5, but gets 650Mb and the Pixel 6 Pro phone gets 650Mb.
I'm stumped. I've even disconnected the mesh router and forced all connections through the main router which is in the room below... about 3m away with only a wooden floor between.
Any help would be appreciated.
For reference, my previous ADSL connection was only giving me 40Mb... So I had no idea that I was getting such dreadful speeds across my home network.
@Anomnomnomaly Try 2.4ghz on a slow device if the router can work with 5 and 2.4 simultaneously. 2.4ghz has better reach and still well within the speed range that you need.
When I moved into a house made of bricks, I had to swap most things to 2.4.
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the only other USB devices I have plugged into both systems are KB/Mouse and a bluietooth dongle on one of them.
@Anomnomnomaly I’ll check when I get home how we can confirm if they’re sharing bandwidth.
Are those computers running Windows?
