Ethernet V's WiFi?

I've been playing around with my MX2 Android box and testing the speed. I have a 50meg connection and with the Ethernet, i get a speed of around 20megs, but on WiFi, i get 40+? I would have though it would have been the other way around?
I've also got an M8, which is a better box (twice the RAM and twice the cores) That gives a similar speed on Ethernet, and a bit slower on Wifi. How come the MX2 Wifi is twice as fast as all the rest?

lulasing said:

you need to google it on wifi ethernet. there are a lot of solutions

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? lol

It's not a problem. Just wondering why?

watch your posts do not turn to clocking

oops someone just sorted lol

Not easy to explain @dar1437,

Normally a wired connection would hands down beat a WiFi connection, my instinct tells me that the router is setup to process WiFi traffic over hard LAN?

Also the ping time between devices will be much better over hard lan, which means the speed of the startup transfer and talkback should be lighting fast compared to wifi.

Some Kind of Quality Of Service feature built in possibly for WiFi traffic.

However if you have a box that is better with WiFi and vise versa, then I would probably say the box that has the slow Ethernet port has some kind of issue mate...

How are you testing this also?

Are you testing downloading a file from a PC and say from a laptop?

As it could also be the machine you are using, slow hard drives (old nearly out the door) will also factor.

But it is a strange one, I would personally be happy though with a good wifi speed for a kodi box as you won't need a cable.

Mick

Hello Mick,

I was testing using the speed test app from Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

It was odd, the better spec box was around 20mbps on bothe wifi and lan, but the other cheaper box was 20 on lan and late 40's on wifi?? lol

Cheers

Is the Wi-Fi built into the box or an adaptor plugged into USB as an adaptor say G/N+ on USB 2.0 speed would probably be faster than a standard 10/100 NIC, @Mick has explained it well enough above with perhaps some form of 'Throttling' over LAN

digi247 said:

Is the Wi-Fi built into the box or an adaptor plugged into USB as an adaptor say G/N+ on USB 2.0 speed would probably be faster than a standard 10/100 NIC, @Mick has explained it well enough above with perhaps some form of 'Throttling' over LAN

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It's built in wifi.

The throttling over LAN doesn't explain why one box is 20mbps over wifi and the other 48mbps.

The speed test App is not 100% accurate at the best of times so perhaps its giving you an over enthusiastic reading i know it did on my android phone biggest load of bollox ever

digi247 said:

The speed test App is not 100% accurate at the best of times so perhaps its giving you an over enthusiastic reading i know it did on my android phone biggest load of bollox ever

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It's possible, but i've tried it on 3 different occasions and it gives near enough the same results?

Ethernet is better at the high signal change the default you get wifi.