slow speeds over wifi?

Colbaker · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:45

Hi all,

I have the 120Mb Virgin Media broadband which hits speeds of 120Meg when tested on my wired PC but all my wireless computers only seem to max out at 30meg, This is using speedtest.net and going through the VM superhub thing.

Any idea's on how to speed the Wireless up? is it even possible?

Thanks

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:50

Reboot everything ?

Colbaker · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:04

mrbell1984 said:
Reboot everything ?

Done that, it's weird as my wired pc reads download speed of 120 but my mobile, iPad, Nexus and laptop all read around the 30 mark download speed, could this be a super hub bottleneck?

unleashed · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:45

Download inSSIDer and check which channels are in use nearby and choose one which gives you the best separation.

bledd · 18 Dec 2013 at 13:01

Do what unleashed said.

But that's the nature of wifi I'm afraid. Personally, I'd only use it for light/mobile browsing.

Colbaker · 18 Dec 2013 at 19:59

unleashed said:
Download inSSIDer and check which channels are in use nearby and choose one which gives you the best separation.

Done this, messed around with different channels and still exactly the same wifi speeds, looks like I will have to put up with it. Kind of makes 120meg pointless

andicole0 · 18 Dec 2013 at 20:02

Colbaker said:
Done this, messed around with different channels and still exactly the same wifi speeds, looks like I will have to put up with it. Kind of makes 120meg pointless

What are the limits on the WiFi chips in the three devices you use, can you put a wire into the laptop and see if it performs the same?

Have you tried turning off QoS (or WMM it's called sometimes).

Andi.

asim18 · 18 Dec 2013 at 21:27

Superhub WiFi is a load of nonsense. I used to get 20-30 at most on my Superhub, plugged an old Dlink in and I'm now enjoying 60-70Mb/s over WiFi.

Call them up and tell them to do something.