Last year our neighborhood was upgraded from old copper wire to AT&T's latest fiber optic cable system and my service was upgraded from 6MB to the 1GB Gigapower system. Some neighbors of mine were complaining about the fact that they too have a 1 GB feed however they were only getting about 39 MB download speed from the DSLReports Fiber Optic speed test whereas I'm getting around 800 MB on my desktop PC that's directly connected to the modem/router by a cable. After hearing this I fired up my HP laptop which has a wireless "N" adapter in it and I ran the speed test again and got the same poor results as they were getting and noticed that my bufferbloat reading was huge. So my question is...... What gives? I would normally expect a WIFI connected device to have a slower speed than my wired desktop but this difference is huge and I don't know if the Modem/Router is throttling the throughput from my laptop or whether my wireless NIC is somehow misconfigured. Has anyone seen this before and is there a way to get faster WIFI throughput from the system?
↧