Normal speed through LAN cable but slow through wifi

@subhramani I am also getting bad speed from google play. Recently I changed my router and I was of the opinion that router may not have been configured properly. Looks like it is ACT wide issue.

@gopichandpai - Are you in Bangalore too? And since when do you have this issue? I have a feeling they fucked something up when they increased people's broadband speed by 10mbps. So I have this issue for the last one week. It was fine until a week ago.

I am seeing this issue since 10 days now.

Hi

I too have the exact problem.

With some R&D, I now landed on a conclusion that both your Wireless NIC on Laptop and your wireless router should have good speed. Your Wireless NIC should at least be of 150 Mbps speed to support a 50 Mbps ACT connection. Also your NIC should at least be 1 Gbps to support a 50 Mbps connection.

Now that I understand you already have a N150 Router, please try checking the speed of your WNIC.

Having said that we must understand the speed over WiFi will not be same as speed over a wired connection. Airtel doesn't offer speed more than 16 Mbps in an affordable price, so most of us are left with a chance to test the speed of Airtel @ max 16 Mbps connection on WiFi and on a wired LAN and that we mostly find same.

But ACT's very high speed connection has to be tested with fast Router + fast Ethernet only. Additionally, the speed on WiFi will definitely be less than the speed over wired connection.

I wrote this after testing my 50 Mbps connection on various LAN / WLAN / Routers / WiFi Routers.

Still you can share your views.

With Regards,
Subhankar

SD_netter said:

Hi
I recently ( a week ago) acquired an ACT fibernet 40 mpbs connection.
However, I've faced this issue since the beginning: I get 40 mbps of speed through LAN cable (as tested on speedtest.net) but the moment i connect via wifi, the speed drops to 20 mbps, and fluctuates wildly, often dropping to 1-2 mbps, so i can hardly browse.
I figured that the issue might be with the Netgear N150 router, and I called ACT CC, who tried to configure the router, but to no avail. I then contacted NETGEAR CC, who were similarly unable to help, despite a lot of modifications to the router configuration.
I then ordered a new router (TP-Link N300) from flipkart, but (you guessed it) same problem. ACT CC is saying that it is not an issue with their end, as a direct connection gives the promised speed.
I tried configuring the router(s) in a hundred different ways (Channel 1, 6, 11, Auto; MTU size 1454, 1492, 1500; Dynamic IP, PPPoE; WEP, WPS) but nothing works. I placed it all over the house, but everywhere the issue is the same.
Another point: I have also an Airtel connection, which I hadn't disconnected as I wasn't sure about ACT, and the routers work absolutely fine with that! So I don't think the issue is with the wireless network adapter in my laptop, or the routers, or the range. Besides, the story is same on the phone and the tab.
I'm at my wits' end as to what to do. I'm sure the issue is with some setting somewhere, but despite scouring google for answers, I've found none. Any help will be much, much appreciated.

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i have 300mbps N wifi router from TP-Link, it's brand new and even if the signal has full bars and has -52 dm signal yet the speeds are inconsistent,i have complained twice to ACT but for couple of days the speeds are good and then it goes same again ,during peak hours the speeds are like 15 mbps and non peak hours around 20 mbps and once in a while it hits 30mbps

Invest in a good quality AC Router guys 😀

Ok there should be some solution to this. Yes of course, ACT should provide that solution.
BTW, Have we tried with a Dual Band Router with 5 GHz speed?
D Link DIR 816 Wireless AC750 Dual Band Router | eBay

Hey All, I guess I have found the solution. I too had similar issue. In Lan i had full download speed (around 49 mbps) but on wifi it used to throw 70 -80 % less. My Plan is a 50mbps plan ..I normally connect to my extended router in 1st floor and the actual Master router in in ground floor which is basically connected to ACT line .

So,, what I did is I logged in to my Master router(D-Link) and enabled the Traffic Control in Advance section (in some routers it will be QOS option). Then I allocated 45 mbps as download speed and 5mbps as upload. This much should actually solve your problem. Somewhere i read that sometimes the wifi routers doesnt emit the actual speed and we are supposed to do the same as i mentioned.

But additionally I have done couple of more things which i felt i should do it for my devices (my laptop and iPhone)to get the proper speed. In my master router(dlink) ,1st I allocated dedicated IP's for my laptop and my Iphone from the DHCP range available. Then after that in traffic control option page, I have added the rule that my iphone and laptop must get minimum of 40mbps download speed at any given point of time. Let the rest 10mbps be for other family members. I just saved all these setting a rebooted my master router. Bingo !!! It works like Charm 🙂 In speedtest it shows full bandwith via wifi now 🙂 Try this out and let me know.

-Regards,
Digvijay
9902095942.
Bangalore.

I'm having the same problem with my 60mbps ACT Blaze connection. Ever since the speed was upgraded from 40mbps to 60mbps this problem is there.
With the ACT cable directly connected in my laptop, I get 60mbps download and upload.
On my Netgear WGR614v10 router, (sitting right next to it) I am getting only 20mbps dowload. Upload is ok at 50 mbps.
On the same router, with a LAN cable from one of the ethernet ports on the router to my laptop, I get 40mbps download and 55 mbps upload.
Previously when the plan speeds were 20mbps and later 40mbps, I was getting the full speed ( for both download and upload) on this router through wifi or lan cable.

So, the ACT technician told me that the router might have become old and advised me to buy a new one, prefarably dual band. He suggested D-Link DIR 816.
I got the D-Link DIR 816 AC750 Dual Band Router from Amazon. Now, with this router it is the same exact story as my previous router mentioned above (both with wifi and lan cable from ethernet port of router to laptop)! This is with the 2.4GHz band on D-Link 816 as my laptop only supports 2.4 GHz band. I checked on ipad mini on 2.4GHz band and same results.
Only my smart phone supports 5GHz band, I checked on this and again the download speed is only 20mbps and upload is 50mbps.

I have tried changing channels on the routers, enabling and disabling WMM option in QoS, but nothing works. Even the ACT technician does not know. He says he has even seen people with D Link 816 getting 100mbps download on 100mbps plan(on 5GHz band) and 50-60mbps on 60mbps plan (2.4GHz band). He too tried with his Linksys E1200 router,but the same story.

So, I am breaking my head on what to do next. I don't think it is a router issue. It may be issue with ACT once they upgraded their plans. Unnecessarily, I had to buy a new router.
Has anybody had else had this problem and found a solution? Pls let me know.