What is a good speed for a home/WLAN network?
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I got a NAS the other day. It's been fun but it's also made me realise I had zero understanding of home networks.
Ethernet everywhere isn't viable so it's Wifi beyond the router which is an EE Bright Box 2.
For file transfers it's averaging 25-35 MB/s. It can stream 4K in the same room with a 5ghz connection. The only place it hiccups is upstairs with an older 145 mbps extender with higher HD streams but I'm not too bothered by that.
Is that a decent average or is there a setting that could be tuned for more? I'd like a bit more for file transfers but for all I know it's a wonderful speed already.
The outgoing internet is ASDL rather than fibre but I've no idea on whether that has a bearing on anything internal.
Ethernet everywhere isn't viable so it's Wifi beyond the router which is an EE Bright Box 2.
For file transfers it's averaging 25-35 MB/s. It can stream 4K in the same room with a 5ghz connection. The only place it hiccups is upstairs with an older 145 mbps extender with higher HD streams but I'm not too bothered by that.
Is that a decent average or is there a setting that could be tuned for more? I'd like a bit more for file transfers but for all I know it's a wonderful speed already.
The outgoing internet is ASDL rather than fibre but I've no idea on whether that has a bearing on anything internal.
If you're asking about WiFi streaming on the LAN (WiFi inside your house, not internet connection speed) then I've always found range extenders to be pretty useless, and it's better to invest in a better router and just use your ISP-supplied as a modem. If the place is really big, consider running a cable to another part of your house and installing an AP.
hutchst said:
If you're asking about WiFi streaming on the LAN (WiFi inside your house, not internet connection speed) then I've always found range extenders to be pretty useless, and it's better to invest in a better router and just use your ISP-supplied as a modem. If the place is really big, consider running a cable to another part of your house and installing an AP.
Yes I'd agree completely.Direct cable connection is significantly faster and more stable, obviously.
Extenders are a pain in the bottom and mine frequently jiggers up DHCP renewals (even though it's not configured to) on older devices.
I've a an old buffalo NAS, connected directed to the router, it will happily copy files at 20mbs or so all day long from another hard wired device, yet copy to it over the WiFi and it falls over, strange eh, especially given it's not go any WiFi and the same router is handling the either connection???
Netgear Ready Nas 2 Duo
Gigabit Lan
Nas - PC large file copy - sustained 80Mb/s (that speed is the one reported by windows 10 whilst copying)
Nas - PC - Nas move (copying a file from one location on the nas to another) - sustained 30Mb/s
I have a healthy network and the Readynas has a "relatively fast" processor (important for transfer speeds on LAN devices). A lot of the simpler nas one-drive boxes have quite slow network processors.
Gigabit Lan
Nas - PC large file copy - sustained 80Mb/s (that speed is the one reported by windows 10 whilst copying)
Nas - PC - Nas move (copying a file from one location on the nas to another) - sustained 30Mb/s
I have a healthy network and the Readynas has a "relatively fast" processor (important for transfer speeds on LAN devices). A lot of the simpler nas one-drive boxes have quite slow network processors.
If you're getting 35MB/s transfer speeds over wireless that is roughly 35x8=280Mbps (network kit is always advertised as bits, windows transfer speeds will show you bytes)
That's not too shabby. Theoretically if your switches and router support gigabit then the fastest you'd see on a wire in Windows is just over 100MB/s
Whether you can go faster is dependent on the weakest link in the chain. That could be the wireless device, the extender or something else. The fact you seem to be capped very close to 300Mbps might make me think something is limited to the 802.11n standard which has a maximum theoretical throughput of 300Mbps. If that is the case then you'll not get any quicker without replacing that.
Personally I wouldn't be too unhappy with what you're getting. If you need to transfer large files around your network frequently then running cables is by far your best bet.
That's not too shabby. Theoretically if your switches and router support gigabit then the fastest you'd see on a wire in Windows is just over 100MB/s
Whether you can go faster is dependent on the weakest link in the chain. That could be the wireless device, the extender or something else. The fact you seem to be capped very close to 300Mbps might make me think something is limited to the 802.11n standard which has a maximum theoretical throughput of 300Mbps. If that is the case then you'll not get any quicker without replacing that.
Personally I wouldn't be too unhappy with what you're getting. If you need to transfer large files around your network frequently then running cables is by far your best bet.
BigTZ4M said:
Whether you can go faster is dependent on the weakest link in the chain. That could be the wireless device, the extender or something else. The fact you seem to be capped very close to 300Mbps might make me think something is limited to the 802.11n standard which has a maximum theoretical throughput of 300Mbps. If that is the case then you'll not get any quicker without replacing that.
Personally I wouldn't be too unhappy with what you're getting. If you need to transfer large files around your network frequently then running cables is by far your best bet.
Looks like I shouldn't be complaining then. Personally I wouldn't be too unhappy with what you're getting. If you need to transfer large files around your network frequently then running cables is by far your best bet.
Both the router and laptop that transfer files are saying they're on ac1200.
With a 5e ethernet cable transfer are actually slower but I don't think I'm going to push my luck with fiddling with anything. It's good enough.
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