Situation is, I have ATT fiber and the router is forced to be downstairs while I’m on the second floor.
I tested my moms laptop downstairs and her speed is great. However my iphone with me upstairs is also pretty solid routinely getting 100+ mbps.
What is causing such a drastic drop in speed?
I have this PC and hardware:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/665134/powerspec-g443-gaming-pc
10/100/1000 Network
- 2.5GbE LAN
- WiFi 6E 802.11ax
My meantime solution is I have one of those ethernet adapters, which smooths out my mbps to about 40-50.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084CZMYNM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
but I would much rather have 200-250 or at least 100 mbps like my iphone.
What could be causing the drastic loss of speed?
Would something like the amazon aero help?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WGJ8ZD3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Disagree heavily, (In cases when there’s no need for high performance devices to ever consider slower 2.4GHz g/n networks littered with 10year old iot stuff, they’ll still sometimes pick 2.4… and there’s usually no other way to configure this restriction on clients), … but that’s a bit of a longer discussion.
MoCA could be a nice hack if coax is there between floors and Ethernet isn’t.
Also, there’s “fancy” wifi client gear from Mikrotik in 50-100 bucks range, stick one end into Ethernet, point it towards the router and enjoy the +20dB of signal, as if the PC was in the same room.
(I apologize for using Mikrotik and fancy in the same sentence, but compared to most desktop adapters , the CLS of Mikrotik is kind of fancy, … I’m thinking of their sq5 series here in particular)