[Elecraft] OT: Fixing Slow Internet

[Richard Fjeld]

FWIW, I had an interesting, but frustrating, experience just recently.  My internet would get so slow that we would need to quit streaming during part of a movie, etc.  At times, it would speed test at 0.02 Mbits.  Another odd thing was, using an Ethernet cable was slower than Wifi at times. I was power cycling often.

I'll keep this short.  I purchased DSL modems and routers of a respected brand name.  I checked settings several times. I have a former IT guy for a friend.  I finally called my IP provider and they saw that it was slow.  When he got here, he saw my 10 Mbit service at 3 megs.  He changed the wiring and installed a splitter isolating my phones from my modem.  Still slow, so he changed the modem and now have 10 megs.  (I live rural)
I was blown away.

I still had trouble steaming video to my TV using an Octacore Android box.  Did some testing and determined it had a fault using a cable.  I turned off Ethernet and enabled wifi and all is beautiful.  I can speed test thru the box at about 9+ Mbits.  What should have been better was worse.


Dick, n0ce

On 12/10/2016 12:02 AM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:

One problem with wifi that is sometimes hidden is QRM from other wifi users on the same channel. I live in a big apartment building and when I look at the display of a "wifi analyzer" app on my phone, the 2.4 gHz band looks like 20 meters during the CQWW contest. 5 Gig is better because fewer people seem to be using it and the signals are attenuated more by walls, etc.

Vic 4X6GP