All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Plusnet Help Team. Posts: 15, Thanks: Fixes: A good post in case anyone else has this issue, I can't imagine why a router might have such restrictive QOS straight out of the box though. Message 2 of 4. Community Veteran. Posts: 3, Thanks: 1. Quote from: TomJasper I had previously set an upload speed manually Good spot, though.
Message 3 of 4. Posts: 1, Fixes: 6. I agree that this is an excellent router. I bought mine to replace the Plusnet supplied Technicolor router to make my fibre speeds increase. This is the advice on QoS directly from my Asus router. For example, the ceiling speed of a Gigabit Ethernet connection is 1, megabits per second, fast enough to transfer a Blu-ray disc worth of data 25 gigabytes in less than 3.
And in this case, the wiring that delivers this speed is protected inside your network cable by a layer of plastic, isolating it from the outside environment. This is why an Ethernet connection is able to deliver real-world speeds close to or on par with the ceiling speed of the standard. Note, however, the network speed's rule of thumb: The ceiling speed of a connection is that of the slowest device in the chain.
In other words, a connection is only as fast as its weakest link. So if you connect a Fast Ethernet device Mbps , like a Roku 3, to a Gigabit Ethernet 1,Mbps router using a network cable, the connection speed between the two and only those two will be capped at Mbps.
Wi-Fi, however, is totally different since it uses radio waves to transfer data. Wi-Fi devices share the same airspace not only with each other, but other home appliances as well.
That means the speed of a Wi-Fi connection is subject to the Wi-Fi environment it's operating in. That's why your wireless speeds can flatline when you or a neighbor in a nearby apartment fires up the microwave.
This is why the real-world speed of a Wi-Fi connection is always s ignificantly lower than the ceiling speed of the Wi-Fi standard being used. In my experience, at best, the actual sustained speed of a Wi-Fi connection is between a third and a half of its ceiling speed. It's a dual-band router, which means that it can operate on the 2. The latter band is far less prone to interference from household items.
The top ceiling speeds on those bands in this case are Mbps and 1,Mbps, respectively. That means the real-world speeds are closer to Mbps and Mbps, at best. The question is, why do all networking vendors always use the unachievably high numbers for the Wi-Fi ceiling speeds? That's because, as inaccurate as it is when it comes to the real-world speed capabilities of Wi-Fi devices, the ceiling speed is the only thing that's constant and therefore can be used to differentiate one Wi-Fi standard from another.
However, to cover their asses, all networking manufacturers precede the top Wi-Fi speed number with 'up to. And maybe the engine is capable of driving at that speed. But you're not going to be going anywhere near that fast in real life. It's classified as an AC product because it uses The is derived by adding the router's top speeds on both of its bands: 2. But that implication of '1,Mbps' is completely misleading, because a Wi-Fi connection takes place on one band at a time the router itself can work on both bands simultaneously, but each client can only connect to one of the two bands at a time so at most, the ceiling speed of this router would be 1,Mbps.
But adding together the numbers is a networking manufacturer's favorite way of naming its routers. For this reason, a router with three Wi-Fi bands two 5GHz bands and a single 2. Completely untrue. The router has two 5GHz bands, each capped at 1,Mbps, and one 2. Add those numbers together and you get 3, In reality, however, at best, the fastest connection you can get from this router is the same as that of any AC router, like the Asus above. This kind of naming convention is also confusing because a dual-band AC router 1,Mbps on 5GHz band and Mbps on 2.
Now it's obvious that you will never get the Wi-Fi speed that you think you pay for. But but the good news is that even those 'slower' real-world speeds, Wi-Fi is often more than two to 10 times faster than you need on many residential internet connections. This is because fast residential broadband connections generally range from 20Mbps to Mbps for download and 2Mbps to 20Mbps for upload -- if you want to find out how fast yours actually is, check out this quick tip.
And this means, no matter how slow your Wi-Fi is, as long as it's faster than Mbps, which almost all Wi-Fi connections are, it's already fast enough to deliver your full internet speed. And this means that getting even the most expensive router won't necessarily improve your online experience if you have a slow internet connection.
The only time a top Wi-Fi route would help is when you have ultrafast internet, such as fiber optic, with a top speed of up to 1Gbps. But don't worry -- most of the time you don't need superfast internet. On top of that a fast router also helps with local activities, such as wireless backups or data sharing.
Now that you know what to expect out of a Wi-Fi router, here are some tips on how to get the fastest home network. These are what I do for my own home. Again, these only apply to the local network and in most case won't help with your internet connection.
Run network cables when possible: I actually have CAT6 cables running to every room in my house, with all of them converging in a single room where the internet comes into the house. This one-time, time-consuming investment pays off big in the long run, since it allows all stationary devices servers, network media streamer, game consoles and so on to connect via wired Gigabit connections, giving them the fastest network speed possible.
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