I have had a Kabel UnityMedia 2play150 contract since December 2019, but this was carried out directly via Vodafone. The speed should therefore be "up to" 150 MB.
Now the connection was always ok, not bombastic and sometimes I had to restart the router. Almost nothing has been going for a few weeks now, I have reached speeds of only 7 MB in Wi-Fi - I have tested this with several devices (company laptop, private laptop, cell phone), results unchanged. The router is not 5m away and there are no pieces of furniture in front of it (great tip from Vodafone ;-))
Since I currently have to work from home due to Corona, I rely on the Internet. Are there any tips I could do?
Is it "only" due to the current overload, because many people work from home because of Corona? → Then why does the modem still reach full speed?
It can't be because of the wiring in the house when 150MB arrive at the modem, right?
In another thread on the subject I read that the router should be reset to the factory settings - could that help?
Unfortunately, I'm quite a layperson and look forward to any help!
WLAN is slower than LAN (cable connection to the computer).
I.e. Please try to connect to the router via cable and then check your speed again. If this is still 7 MB / s then it is the line that goes from the router.
I have a 3Play50 contract at home and have received "only" 2 MB / s instead of 6 MB / s in the evening since Corona. This is definitely due to the utilization of the line…
I have had a Kabel UnityMedia 2play150 contract since December 2019, but this was carried out directly via Vodafone. The speed should therefore be "up to" 150 MB.
For information:
Unitymedia was bought by Vodafone. Unitymedia as a company only exists on paper, otherwise not. There are still shops with the company logo of that time, but these are gradually being replaced by Vodafone logos.
Now the connection was always ok, not bombastic and sometimes I had to restart the router. Almost nothing has been going for a few weeks now, I have reached speeds of only 7 MB in Wi-Fi - I have tested this with several devices (company laptop, private laptop, cell phone), results unchanged. The router is not 5m away and there are no pieces of furniture in front of it (great tip from Vodafone ;-))
In general, Wi-Fi is more of a horror than a blessing. Even if it is so nice and comfortable, you should avoid it as much as possible. Connect your PC to the router via a LAN cable and your problems are a thing of the past.
The cable connection is still the best, most stable and safest connection at home. Even if you would like to use your cell phone / smartphone to go online via your router, a cable connection would be the best option. Matching USB to Lan adapters are available to buy. Years ago I was also a Unitymedia customer and at that time I already avoided Wi-Fi like the devil's holy water. It is generally insecure, unstable and not suitable for streaming. It is enough that the neighbor in the Wi-Fi is up to mischief to have problems in his own Wi-Fi network. In the cable network, no neighbor in the world can disturb you or give you lost connections. Meanwhile, almost every user uses Wi-Fi and that is the main problem. The channels are getting more and more frequented and you can hardly get through yourself. Then upgrade one, then the other, etc. Does not have to be if it can be easier.
WLAN is slower than LAN (cable connection to the computer).
It's faster with me.
Thanks to DualBand, I reach 1.3 Gbit / s via W-Lan and thanks to the limitation of the Lan port only 1 Gbit / s via Lan. So if you only look at the connection between router and PC.
So if you have a tariff with over 1 Gbit / s, then hats off. But even with dual band, 1.3 Gbit / s with 802.11ac are only a theoretical value and often it is even lower. Unless you already use 802.11ax
Did I mention internet speed or did I mention how fast data transfer is possible?
Think for a moment. I'm concerned with how fast I can theoretically send data back and forth between the router and the PC.
But it doesn't help you to have a theoretical data value of 1.3 Gbit / s if you can't even take advantage of it. And what else would you like to get from the router other than the Internet? If you have a speed of 1.3 Gbit / s in your local network via the router, that's all well and good, but it does not help you, you should get data from the Internet and you have a much slower line.
I can connect a NAS with SSDs to the router or even better connect it to the router via dual band Wi-Fi, then I could also take advantage of the 1.3 GHz. Then the data value is not only theoretical but also practical.
In addition, I was only trying to refute your statement that Wi-Fi would be slower than Lan.
Well I do not think that LAN is faster than WLAN and have not mentioned this here in this post. Yes, it is correct that you can of course get more than 1.3 Gbit / s in the LAN with WLAN and I would not rule that out. Most people usually say that LAN is faster, since the normal user will not build strong technology at home to be faster with WLAN. The Wi-Fi faster than the mostly limited 1Gbit / s ports of the router should also be clear. But the effort to become faster than 1 Gbit / s as a normal consumer is not worth it anyway.
Huhu, I was the one who said LAN is faster…
And that's exactly my point @skiddy. No Otto normal consumer who takes the router from the provider has n network with more than 1GB / s network speed…
