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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...
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!!!
FURRYe38 wrote:Is the 1 wired RBS directly connected to the RBR or thru a LAN switch? Daisy chain should be disabled for this.
It is connected thru an unmanaged netgear gigabit switch. As directed by you previously, daisy chain is disabled.
Do you get good speeds at the wired RBS?
Might try swapping the RBS placements around and see if problem follows or not as a troubleshooting step if needed.
I could try this if needed. I just tried powering off the wifi RBS to see if the main router would provide better results when connected to it with a short 5ft distance and produced the same results.
Sorry, forgot to answer all of your questions. YES, i get excellent speeds at ALL locations with wired devices.
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.
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!!!