Are there ways to test wifi speed NOT BROADBAND

whitecrook · 16 Feb 2012 at 22:05

8 is approx 10 which is what I said. I was keeping it easy.

Besides if you want to get pedantic you need to know if your'e talking Mebibytes or Megabytes etc..

Magic_x_uk · 16 Feb 2012 at 22:59

o/t
why on your photo of your wireless speed (white photo) are you getting/got 300 mbps?

My laptop (pretty new) only has 150 mbps

do not understand this?

Dist · 16 Feb 2012 at 23:05

Magic_x_uk said:
o/t
why on your photo of your wireless speed (white photo) are you getting/got 300 mbps?

My laptop (pretty new) only has 150 mbps

do not understand this?

Depends on the Router/AP and your WNIC. 150 Mb/s is the maximum possible for 802.11n using a single spatial stream, so if that is the maximum you're device is showing it is because that is all one of the devices on one or both sides of the connection is capable of.

pyropetepete · 17 Feb 2012 at 09:34

It doesn't do 300 MBPS unless i change the Intel WIFI Settings. Admitly this is the drivers off disc that came with the laptop from the company i bought it off. Im sure if i use the offical Intel one it might enforce it more so!

Tomsk · 17 Feb 2012 at 09:44

pyropetepete said:

Don't believe the speeds in those transfer windows. Windows recalculates them as the transfer progresses.
To see a more accurate live speed, open the Windows Task Manager and view the network tab.
For an accurate average speed, it's back to basic maths skills, known file size and a real stopwatch.

andybird123 · 17 Feb 2012 at 10:08

whitecrook said:
8 is approx 10 which is what I said. I was keeping it easy.

Besides if you want to get pedantic you need to know if your'e talking Mebibytes or Megabytes etc..

not really, the short form of mebibyte is MiB so that's pretty distinct from megabytes and megabits where just forgetting or not reading the capitilisation of the two letter causes the confusion

I know people round down from 1024 to 1000 for calculating kilo to mega etc. but then that is only 2.3%... rounding up by 20% is pretty sloppy

pyropetepete · 17 Feb 2012 at 10:11

Dist said:
The router you have as the moment stays as it is, to use a router as an AP you need to attach a cable from one of the main routers LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the router to use as AP. The WAN port on the AP router stays empty as that is only used for connecting a different network (such as the internet) to your LAN, which a router used purely as an AP won't be doing.

Although the AP router may be able to be assigned an IP from the main router you have, it is best to manually give it a static IP so that you will always know how to access it.

Thanks for that! I'm stealing one from work to try it

Can i plug the NAS into the AP on the gigabyte ports or am i going to need to use a gigabyte switch?

sja360 · 17 Feb 2012 at 11:02

you should be able to just plug it in.

pyropetepete · 17 Feb 2012 at 11:04

sja360 said:
you should be able to just plug it in.

If i can to test it then ideal

bledd · 17 Feb 2012 at 13:22

Tomsk said:
Don't believe the speeds in those transfer windows. Windows recalculates them as the transfer progresses.
To see a more accurate live speed, open the Windows Task Manager and view the network tab.
For an accurate average speed, it's back to basic maths skills, known file size and a real stopwatch.

They're reasonably reliable when it's one large file though.

It's when you have loads of small files the time goes all to pot

whitecrook · 17 Feb 2012 at 14:33

andybird123 said:
not really, the short form of mebibyte is MiB so that's pretty distinct from megabytes and megabits where just forgetting or not reading the capitilisation of the two letter causes the confusion

I know people round down from 1024 to 1000 for calculating kilo to mega etc. but then that is only 2.3%... rounding up by 20% is pretty sloppy

FAIL.

But let have an argument on the internet yey!