Really? (Wifi drops to lowest device speed) I've never encountered this... why and how does this happen?
Sean On Saturday, 20 July 2013, Rob Beard wrote: > On 20/07/13 20:52, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: > >> Hello all, >> The heaviest use of internet I do is for some video streaming at home. >> At the moment youtube on mobile and tablet and lovefilm on the wii >> (still no joy with ubuntu). Also video chat. >> >> They take less then a minute to load and only ocasionally do they break >> midway (normally removing hd mode makes things better). >> >> Do you think I would notice a significant improvement from going from 20 >> megs to 60 megs? >> >> Bonus question: the upgrade will come with virgins wireless router that >> will be replacing my 7 year old router from netgear. Would that show a >> significant improvement as well? Most of my gadgets are wireless. >> >> >> >> As far as I'm aware Virgin are upgrading 20Mbit customers to 60Mbit > anyway, but if you've got the old separate modem and router then you might > need one of their Super Hubs. I'm not sure what the latest Super Hub is > like, but the originals are fairly poor. For a long while it wasn't > possible to configure them as just a modem (although eventually Virgin did > fix this) and the wifi on them is pretty bad (sure it connects at 150 or > 300Mbit but the signal is not that great). > > If you do get a Super Hub and find that it's got poor wireless I'd suggest > looking and putting it in modem only mode and getting a separate cable > router. IIRC too, wireless tends to slow down to the maximum speed the > slowest device supports. So if you've got a say a phone that supports > 150Mbit Wireless (N is it?) and a laptop that supports the older 54mbit > Wireless G then everything will drop down to the slower speeds. > > Rob > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
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