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Phiniac
Sep 11, 2019Aspirant
Slow Wifi for mobile devices
ISP montana sky networks wireless broadband (dish to tower) paying for 50/6 getting 57/13 plugged directly to router router updated to latest firmware 2.3.5.30 Router is in center of house in offi...
- Sep 23, 2019
Ok...so it appears that speedtest.net and the speedtest app on android are not giving reliable results. Went to fast.com and it reported 56-59mb down. I'm paying for 50mb so it appears to be good. Don't think i'm going to use speedtest anymore, at least for wireless devices. Right now just tested again...
speedtest app for android 31mb down
fast.com on same android using chrome browser 57mb down
speedtest.net website on android using chrome (had to check "desktop site" in options) 48mb down
SPEEDTEST.NET SUCKS!!!
Phiniac
Sep 11, 2019Aspirant
Sorry, forgot to answer all of your questions. YES, i get excellent speeds at ALL locations with wired devices.
Phiniac
Sep 11, 2019Aspirant
How is it that I could get local transfer speeds from a wireless laptop to a wired computer in excess of 400mbps but the same laptop suffers from slow download on speedtest.net? That doesn't make sense to me.
- PhiniacSep 23, 2019Aspirant
Ok...so it appears that speedtest.net and the speedtest app on android are not giving reliable results. Went to fast.com and it reported 56-59mb down. I'm paying for 50mb so it appears to be good. Don't think i'm going to use speedtest anymore, at least for wireless devices. Right now just tested again...
speedtest app for android 31mb down
fast.com on same android using chrome browser 57mb down
speedtest.net website on android using chrome (had to check "desktop site" in options) 48mb down
SPEEDTEST.NET SUCKS!!!