Hi all,
I live in a student dormitory. The internet speed in my room is 10Mbps however next to the door and passageway it hits 200Mbps. The distance is only few meters !
I am suspecting I might be connected to a distant router?! For example, l am in my room now and the internet speed on my phone is hitting 200Mbps which is 20Mbps on my PC.
What can I do in this case? Thanks all !
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I think l found the problem but not sure how to solve it: when my laptop was connected on 5Ghz, the speed was insane and bypassed 200Mbps. However when l got disconnected and reconnected it went to 2.4 GHz and the speed went down again !
How can l force the wifi to be 5GHz?
If your computer has a Realtek/ralink/Mediatek wifi radio, you would probably benefit from upgrading to an Intel radio. Intel radios handle congested environments better than Realtek ones. In the suburbs it doesn’t matter, but in a college dorm it should be a noticeable improvement.
It has to do with the nuances of how the radios detect and decode 802.11 frame preambles. Realtek radios are less sophisticated, and will often fail to receive stronger signal frames that collide with weaker signal frames. Intel radios do a better job, and usually pick up the strongest signal frame even when there’s a collision. In a college dorm, there’s collisions pretty much constantly.