With a Synology NAS, if you run Docker then you can launch a speedtest server app and test your devices throughout and latency, locally or wherever, just using a browser/HTML5

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With a Synology NAS, if you run Docker then you can launch a speedtest server app and test your devices throughout and latency, locally or wherever, just using a browser/HTML5

This is what I already have 😀
I just obviously wasn’t explicit enough.

The results of that are why I questioned the difference in LAN and WAN speed test results

Example:
https://ibb.co/z65t5Gx

MilesR

This is much more common than most people believe. Many devices over 2 years old were not speccd to deliver more than 200Mb WiFi speeds which is not really surprising as most consumers did not have connection speeds exceeding 80Mb

Even now the main reason for wanting WiFi speeds of over 200Mb on a consumer device is to speed test to see if you can saturate a connection higher than 300Mb.

In practical usage the main consumer reason for wanting connection speeds over 80Mb is so many devices can use it at the same time without contention between them and for that you don't need Wifi speeds greater than 200Mb on any one device, ( except the router / AP itself). .So manufactures cut costs by using lower spec WiFi ( Except Apple where cost is not an issue due to price and profit margin)

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MilesR

This is much more common than most people believe. Many devices over 2 years old were not speccd to deliver more than 200Mb WiFi speeds which is not really surprising as most consumers did not have connection speeds exceeding 80Mb

Yeah, I get that...it just doesn't make sense to me that the same devices can achieve much higher speeds when connecting to my internal server, but when testing to the WAN it's slow.

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With a Synology NAS, if you run Docker then you can launch a speedtest server app and test your devices throughout and latency, locally or wherever, just using a browser/HTML5

I think that only works if you have Intel processors in the NAS itself though, I have one of the Realtek processors which don't support docker unfortunately. I am considering a new NAS though as it's going to get very full, in 6 months time I have a few TB of data stored offsite that I have to store on my systems again, I know one thing, it's not going to be quick downloading it all.
I think i looked at a 4 bay option so i could reuse my existing NAS as archival or offsite backup.

I mean when i speedtest offsite i just use my samknows whitebox as its normally accurate, I mean if you email samknows they might give you one as long as you have already signed up and registered interest.

edit
Just remembered what the thread was about
Just another idea that popped into mind, have you tried to delete your macs wifi configuration files or potentially maybe booting windows on your mac either in bootcamp or just a bootable usb?

Edited by RR_The_IT_Guy (Fri 08-Oct-21 16:59:25)

Yes you are right; Synology it has to be running an x86 64-bit processor. Although Docker does work on other ARM based CPUs, Synology have restricted it. Mine is a 17 series.

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

With a Synology NAS, if you run Docker then you can launch a speedtest server app and test your devices throughout and latency, locally or wherever, just using a browser/HTML5

I think that only works if you have Intel processors in the NAS itself though, I have one of the Realtek processors which don't support docker unfortunately. I am considering a new NAS though as it's going to get very full, in 6 months time I have a few TB of data stored offsite that I have to store on my systems again, I know one thing, it's not going to be quick downloading it all.
I think i looked at a 4 bay option so i could reuse my existing NAS as archival or offsite backup.

I mean when i speedtest offsite i just use my samknows whitebox as its normally accurate, I mean if you email samknows they might give you one as long as you have already signed up and registered interest.

edit
Just remembered what the thread was about
Just another idea that popped into mind, have you tried to delete your macs wifi configuration files or potentially maybe booting windows on your mac either in bootcamp or just a bootable usb?

I got myself a new 6 bay one last year when my old one died (due to the Intel CPU bug).
Then a few months ago I bought 4 x 10TB drives and 2 SSDs (for the system and apps). I shouldn’t need new drives for a while!

It’s only local backups though for now, although the really important stuff is in cloud storage.

As for the WiFi testing…now I have proven it works on at least one device (the iPad Air) I’m a little less concerned. I just need to do a little more tweaking / investigations as to what works and what doesn’t.

Which iPad Air generation do you have?

Edit - if it’s the current 4th gen, then it’ll be running WiFi 6 (802.11ax) - so should easily fill your 500 meg pipe and then some! More like double.

Edited by Pheasant (Fri 08-Oct-21 18:35:59)

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Which iPad Air generation do you have?

It's a 4th Gen.

Got it a couple of months ago when Currys did a guaranteed £150 trade in for an old iPad, so I dug out the 10 year old (!) one that was in a drawer and bagged a new 64GB Air for £349.

Thanks for confirming. Your iPhone 12 Pro should have near identical performance to the IPad, however I think you said in the other thread you were getting 440/400 down/up on the iPhone on LAN to LAN is that correct?