yeah spot on. didn't clock that before - but wifi says 300mbs, but i didnt clock it was on 2,5ghz.

thanks for replying.

ian

300Mbps as an advertised capability of the Wi-Fi adapter is likely to be two stream Wireless-N (Wi-Fi 4) which is now a 15-year-old standard. Your iPhone will be Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) at a minimum unless it's really old which matches what the hub is equipped with.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Are you using a VPN, Antivirus software? Could be a huge number of issues.

But even with a VPN it should go faster unless he has a naff VPN, I can get around 450Mb/s with my VPN on. Antivirus software also should not make much difference, certainly not on a speed that low in the first place.

Oh that looks awful, speed that low in the first place, talking of 150Mbs being low

In reply to a post by whoamI999:

so, just been testing it and the cable is an old 100mb cable. So I have ordered a new 1gb one.

This should take me a step forward at least, though it doesnt explain why the wifi on my phone works at 150mb but on my pc only 80mb.

A cable which doesn't have all four pairs connected, or is of the "crossover" variety, supports only 100Mbps ethernet. You can easily check if this is the case by looking at the network device settings and see if it has negotiated a 100M or a 1G connection.

By the time you've taken off IP and ethernet header overhead, a speedtest service will report just over 90Mbps.

Any less than that will be due to Windows overhead, poor NIC device drivers, antivirus etc.

Wifi isn't going through that ethernet so it can do whatever the wifi can do. Wifi 5 (802.11ac) typically achieves around 400Mbps real-world throughput if you're very close to the router.

ok, many thanks for the reply candlerb.

i am awaiting a delivery of a new 1gb cable and a wifi dongle that does 5ghz, so i will see how that goes, and maybe report back? in case someone else has the same issue?

cheers again,

ian

In reply to a post by candlerb:

A cable which doesn't have all four pairs connected, or is of the "crossover" variety, supports only 100Mbps ethernet. You can easily check if this is the case by looking at the network device settings and see if it has negotiated a 100M or a 1G connection.

I *think* 1Gbps can work with a cross-over cable.. Provided it's all four pairs connected.

Not always fast.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Not always fast.

er? 150Mb.s is pretty fast, even 80Mb/s is fast compared to some, but now seem to be talking about it being slow.

Yep, FTTC or FTTP 80/20 are reasaonable for most peoples at home. Quicker downloading is FTTP 160/30 or 330/50 are fine for now.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

or is of the "crossover" variety, supports only 100Mbps ethernet.

A crossover cable just has pairs 2 and 3 swapped around, everything is auto MDI-X now so as long as your cable is built to an actual standard and uses all 4 pairs it will do gigabit and faster all day long.