You should maybe download Inssider and see if you can find an uncongested channel.

OK thanks I will give it a try

In reply to a post by lawty:

all my previous speedchecks have been done wirelessly so I am comparing like for like

No, you're not! Eventually you will bump up against the wireless speed limit.

Downloaded Inssider doesn't seem to tell me anything useful and the link to the user manual does't work

In reply to a post by lawty:

It is showing 72mbps

Isn't there something about if the wireless connection is operating at 72 Meg, say, then you get half-speed in each direction (half-duplex??) i.e 36 Meg? Which will fit well with OP's wireless speedtests.

No, you're not! Eventually you will bump up against the wireless speed limit.



Already found that out thanks anyway

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

In reply to a post by lawty:

It is showing 72mbps

Isn't there something about if the wireless connection is operating at 72 Meg, say, then you get half-speed in each direction (half-duplex??) i.e 36 Meg? Which will fit well with OP's wireless speedtests.

That's what I was looking for . I didn't expect 72 though.

In reply to a post by lawty:

Downloaded Inssider doesn't seem to tell me anything useful and the link to the user manual does't work

You should have a list of wireless sources it can see, and below that probably the welcome box. There's a tab between the two. You want the 2.4GHz one. It is only a graphical representation of the list, but a lot easier to understand.

Channels overlap 2 either side, as you will see there.

You have two problems. The major one is the 72Mbps. That is limiting your top speed - you need at least 130Mbps. It wouldn't have shown up on a 40Mbps connection. We can work towards that soon.

The variability that wasn't there on 40Mbps may be explained by Christmas presents, as I said before. Or Christmas lights, or a number of other possible factors we come across now and then. We just have to progress in steps now if you want to go back to wireless.

If you are happy on wired, then that is easiest. But you possibly have reasons for wanting wireless working well.

The minor one is to examine the graph and see if there are are less occupied spots than where you are. You can set your router to wherever you want. Very busy areas are where you will get interference, which has a similar effect to congestion. To some extent explaining the variability of what you were getting.

I forget - is it the Plusnet router, if so which? I don't use either of mine because I rely on wireless and they are poor.

See if you can get that far and let us know .

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 29-Dec-12 21:20:17)

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

You should maybe download Inssider and see if you can find an uncongested channel.

If the OP does they should probably buy a lottery ticket as well

Anyway to get enough speed from wifi the OP will need two adjacent channels and that's even more unlikely.

Unless of course the OP's PC is using a 5GHz dongle in which case it ought to be possible to find space for full speed.

Edited by Andrue (Sat 29-Dec-12 21:26:27)

I just got this - two channels and a 150-capable wireless card. Router in bedroom opposite side of steel-framed house, it and I at the front of the house against the respective outside side walls.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2402334929.png

Which in relation to my sync of 54/14.9 isn't too bad.