How to speed up Wi-fi

bremen1874 · 23 Aug 2016 at 23:11

Connecting via wireless from the Lenovo?

You need to know what the wireless adapter in the Lenovo is capable of. The same model of laptop can be fitted with a variety of different wireless adapters so you need to check what's installed.

Whatever you do you aren't going to see a reliable 750Mbps over wireless.

Evole · 23 Aug 2016 at 23:17

bremen1874 said:
Connecting via wireless from the Lenovo?

You need to know what the wireless adapter in the Lenovo is capable of. The same model of laptop can be fitted with a variety of different wireless adapters so you need to check what's installed.

Whatever you do you aren't going to see a reliable 750Mbps over wireless.

Iphone is getting 300 out

pepp77 · 23 Aug 2016 at 23:17

What does network connections show your connected wireless speed as?

Evole · 23 Aug 2016 at 23:29

pepp77 said:
What does network connections show your connected wireless speed as?

650

However old router sometimes even said 877 but still couldnt get past 90.

bremen1874 · 23 Aug 2016 at 23:42

Whatever the link speed is you can half it for actual throughput. The reason you were only seeing 90Mbps with the original router has been covered.

You're never going to fully exploit a 750Mbps connection using a single wireless device. You can keep buying more-and-more expensive routers, but it just isn't going to happen.

The speed you're seeing is more than enough for anything I can think of. I'd live with it and plug a cable in on the rare occasions you actually need the bandwidth.

Evole · 24 Aug 2016 at 00:20

Ok sounds good, well I am happy knowing I'm getting the best out of it. getting 90 was just feeling like it was a waste

ChrisD. · 24 Aug 2016 at 08:02

What is that new router capable of processing on the WAN side? Have you tried wired? Ie, cable from wall, router, cable to computer?

Orcvader · 24 Aug 2016 at 12:14

Looking at the laptop's specs apparently it uses this: http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/...al-band-wireless-ac-3160-bluetooth-brief.html

Which is rated up to 433mbps. So you're already getting the best your phone/laptop can handle if we consider other factors like overhead/distance/interference that could affect wifi speeds.