The one on the left, I did from my iPhone sitting in my bedroom chair which is an “average” (but not great) location in my house for WiFi reception. Here are two side by side speeds tests that I just ran at more or less the same time around 7:30pm Friday night (which is probably the busiest, most congested time for any Internet Service Provider). So if you are one to care about your Internet speed, then you’ve got to test using an Ethernet connected computer. That’s fine for convenience, but let me repeat: WiFi is a lot slower than Ethernet cables. Remember Ethernet cables? These days, fewer and fewer people are even bothering to connect their PCs, Macs or laptops using Ethernet cables, opting instead to just connect via WiFi. ![]() When you do an Internet speed test via WiFi all you are doing is testing how good your house WiFi set up is, and not the Internet connection since WiFi is always going to be slower than a gigabit Internet link. Second, they did it via their phone, which has the worst WiFi strength of any device, and moreover, it uses WiFi. The answer is that this person made two mistakes.įirst, they used the speedtest app, which is the most common, and unfortunately, the most awful speedtest tool you can use (see below for reasons). They send me photos like the one here wondering why they aren’t getting anywhere near gigabit speeds. People often ask me why the speed test they’ve just run on their fancy new gigabit fiber connection is so slow. I’ve left the rest of this article for historical purposes. Make sure the app has selected “Race Communication, Los Angeles” as the target server for high speed results. ![]() So, use for measuring your Internet connectivity and if it doesn’t show around 800+ Mbps up and down during off peak times, then you might have a problem. You can now routinely and reliably see near gigabit speed results when you use from an Ethernet connected PC on the RSF Connect fiber network. Sometime in the last year, Race Communications installed a server onto their network.
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