Are there ways to test wifi speed NOT BROADBAND

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 13:12

I want to test my WIFI speeds, see what im getting etc.

I can't really seam to find anything.

Not wanting too see my broadband speed.

I have a WD NAS which i could use to trasnfers larger files across the WIFI if that helps

4T5 · 16 Feb 2012 at 13:14

WIFIAnalyser is an App you can download to your moby or tablet.

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 13:26

4T5 said:
WIFIAnalyser is an App you can download to your moby or tablet.

Im an iPhone user and Apple have banned it along with lots of amazing other items! Jailbreak is the only way which i am not, laptop is what im using

bledd · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:04

Copy a large file from one wired machine to the wireless one. Best real world test you can do tbh..

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:12

bledd. said:
Copy a large file from one wired machine to the wireless one. Best real world test you can do tbh..

I coppied the Top Gear S18 folder which as the 1st 3 EP's that I have pulled in HD off BBC iPlayer service DRM Free

, 3.44GB

NAS is WD My WorldBook (white one), router - modem is a Netgear DG834 DGTeam FW and the WIFI AP on this test is a TP-Link TL-WA801ND

DOWNLOAD OFF NAS TO LAPTOP

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UPLOAD OFF LAPTOP TO NAS

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ChocolateStarfishRammer · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:13

pyropetepete said:
I have pulled in HD off BBC iPlayer service DRM Free

I demand you to teach me!

....please

whitecrook · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:37

That looks like a good speed to me, about 100Mbps, I think that is about what you can expect realistically?

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:40

whitecrook said:
That looks like a good speed to me, about 100Mbps, I think that is about what you can expect realistically?

Sorry for being thick but can you explaine how that works out @ 100BMPS?

Shame the AP is not Gigabyte ethernet!!

whitecrook · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:44

10-11megabyte a second transfer. to convert mbps to MB/s multiplay by approx 10 so 10*10 = 100. There's over heads and things . Same reason a 50Meg (megabit) broadband connectino downloads at approx 5-6 MB a second. It says you have connected at 300MBPS which theoroetically could do about 30MB/s but in real life wifi sucks and you'll never get that.

Deception · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:52

whitecrook said:
10-11megabyte a second transfer. to convert mbps to MB/s multiplay by approx 10 so 10*10 = 100. There's over heads and things . Same reason a 50Meg (megabit) broadband connectino downloads at approx 5-6 MB a second. It says you have connected at 300MBPS which theoroetically could do about 30MB/s but in real life wifi sucks and you'll never get that.

I always thought it was MB/sec * 8 = mbps. It will always be less than the stated mbps (10/100/1000) due to overhead. You may have 300mbps wireless, but if its connecting to the router and then the router only has 100mb ports, then you will only ever get 100mbps speeds to the NAS.

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:52

whitecrook said:
10-11megabyte a second transfer. to convert mbps to MB/s multiplay by approx 10 so 10*10 = 100. There's over heads and things . Same reason a 50Meg (megabit) broadband connectino downloads at approx 5-6 MB a second. It says you have connected at 300MBPS which theoroetically could do about 30MB/s but in real life wifi sucks and you'll never get that.

Thanks, feel well thick now but math was never my thing!

The 10mb transfer is best i've had yet to the NAS

Dist · 16 Feb 2012 at 15:19

Deception said:
I always thought it was MB/sec * 8 = mbps. It will always be less than the stated mbps (10/100/1000) due to overhead. You may have 300mbps wireless, but if its connecting to the router and then the router only has 100mb ports, then you will only ever get 100mbps speeds to the NAS.

Thats correct.

11MB/s = 88Mb/s. (big B = Bytes, little b = bits. 1 Byte = 8 bits).

some overhead you can't get rid of, such as packet headers, but some overheads can be improved. For example WPA2 has less overhead than WPA, which has less overhead than WEP (which has a huge overhead). The only security with the least overhead is none at all, but I don't recommend that, use WPA2.

Also, depending on signal strengths, the higher throughput data rates may not be available, and so a lower data rate will be used to overcome the interference/signal loss.

Router Fan · 16 Feb 2012 at 15:22

Thats' right. 8Mb = 1MB. Not 10Mb = 1MB: it doesn't work like that with computers.

bledd · 16 Feb 2012 at 15:37

whitecrook said:
10-11megabyte a second transfer. to convert mbps to MB/s multiplay by approx 10 so 10*10 = 100. There's over heads and things . Same reason a 50Meg (megabit) broadband connectino downloads at approx 5-6 MB a second. It says you have connected at 300MBPS which theoroetically could do about 30MB/s but in real life wifi sucks and you'll never get that.

It's 8, but yeah..

This is a hand site

http://www.numion.com/calculators/units.html

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:51

Bah it'll do for now, 1000mbps would be nice on AP but no one seam to do one, have mailed TP asking them too!

gillywibble · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:55

I'm surprised wannabe geeks don't know there are 8 bits in a byte.

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:57

Fact i guess i could kinda use this as an AP which can also be used a gigabyte switch

http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/?categoryid=238&model=TL-WR1042ND#spec

Netgear DG834 > to TL-WR1024ND > WD NAS Pluged into the TL-WR1024ND

That would work.

Dist · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:01

pyropetepete said:
Fact i guess i could kinda use this as an AP which can also be used a gigabyte switch

http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/?categoryid=238&model=TL-WR1042ND#spec

Netgear DG834 > to TL-WR1024ND > WD NAS Pluged into the TL-WR1024ND

That would work.

Similar to what I do, I use a linksys E3000 as my AP, you just need to make sure you connect it to your network correctly (ie, you shouldn't use its WAN port) and that you disable DHCP as having 2 routers with DHCP can cause issues.

pyropetepete · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:55

Dist said:
Similar to what I do, I use a linksys E3000 as my AP, you just need to make sure you connect it to your network correctly (ie, you shouldn't use its WAN port) and that you disable DHCP as having 2 routers with DHCP can cause issues.

I though i would have to use the WAN port on it.

I can use it a STATIC IP on it as to DHCP?

Dist · 16 Feb 2012 at 21:59

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.