FWIW, I had an interesting, but frustrating, experience just recently. My internet would get so slow that we would need to quit streaming during part of a movie, etc. At times, it would speed test at 0.02 Mbits. Another odd thing was, using an Ethernet cable was slower than Wifi at times. I was power cycling often.
I'll keep this short. I purchased DSL modems and routers of a respected brand name. I checked settings several times. I have a former IT guy for a friend. I finally called my IP provider and they saw that it was slow. When he got here, he saw my 10 Mbit service at 3 megs. He changed the wiring and installed a splitter isolating my phones from my modem. Still slow, so he changed the modem and now have 10 megs. (I live rural) I was blown away. I still had trouble steaming video to my TV using an Octacore Android box. Did some testing and determined it had a fault using a cable. I turned off Ethernet and enabled wifi and all is beautiful. I can speed test thru the box at about 9+ Mbits. What should have been better was worse. Dick, n0ce On 12/10/2016 12:02 AM, Vic Rosenthal wrote: One problem with wifi that is sometimes hidden is QRM from other wifi users on the same channel. I live in a big apartment building and when I look at the display of a "wifi analyzer" app on my phone, the 2.4 gHz band looks like 20 meters during the CQWW contest. 5 Gig is better because fewer people seem to be using it and the signals are attenuated more by walls, etc. Vic 4X6GP ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
