We pay for up to 500 Mbps and it’s $104 a month. T-mobile home internet is $50 and typical download speeds are between 72 – 245 Mbps, according to their website
I figured there was no point in switching but ran a speed test (first time, never done that before) through the app and these were the results.
This is bad, right? Like, it seems to me like I’m wasting my money? I need a TDLR for internet speeds and stuff cause honestly I don’t understand much of this
There’s 2 things when your talking about internet speeds. There is your bandwidth and there is your wifi speeds. Your bandwidth is 500Mbps which is the maximum all your devices can use at one time. Your wifi speed is the amount of Mbps from the device your testing on to your router. If you stand right next to your router, you just might get 500Mbps over WiFi but it’s not guaranteed. Wifi has tradeoffs. You trade speed for convenience. You get to walk around the house and not have an Ethernet wire dangling behind you. If you used an Ethernet cable to plug into your router directly into a computer, you’d get that 500Mbps any day of the week, but you’re limited because of that ethernet cable.
What you probably need is a mesh wifi system with multiple mesh nodes placed throughout your home. This spreads that wifi coverage out throughout your home and gives you much better speeds in the far corners of your house. Because of how wifi operates, the more distance and the more walls you put between your device and your router, the slower the speeds will be.
Update: I did it on my laptop and got 564 Mbps!
This suggests your issue is WiFi coverage and not Internet speed.
Look at getting a modern mesh like Eero. Be careful where you place points, so that you’re getting good coverage, but not too far between points.
This suggests your issue is WiFi coverage and not Internet speed.
Look at getting a modern mesh like Eero. Be careful where you place points, so that you’re getting good coverage, but not too far between points.