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I have been having some issues with the speed of my fibre broadband.
I now have a new router/hub and switch. Although some devices are hard wired i havent yet hard wired upstairs.
My phone (s10) and laptop(i5 vpro elitebook) are sitting right beside each other upstairs. Doing an internet soeed test, the phone says 22 meg but the laptop says 5
Why so different? Is it device specific??
What is the wifi device in the laptop? if it's an older standard, that could account for it being slower, the phone might be using the newer (802.11ac) for example.
I'll be watching this with interest, we provide wireless in some of our rented facilities and have enormous variation between devices, its normally the source of internet performance complaints.
I do wonder if there are any router settings that can make things better from some devices though.
Re wireless device, not sure but its a brand new, high level laptop from work so you would think its decent!
https://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=3JX29EA&opt=ABU&sel=DEF
Are you on a work VPN? That usually drops the speed down.
Beaten to it by Shinton, I reckon its your work VPN
Yes on a vpn, stupid me!
Doing an internet soeed test, the phone says 22 meg but the laptop says 5
Most wifi routers support two bands, the old 2.4 GHz 802.11b and 5 GHz 802.11ac etc. They often create identical SSIDs for each band and rely on band directed attachment where the router and device work out if they can support 5 GHz and switch to that as its much faster. If that doesn't work and the device registers on 2.4 GHz the best you can get is a few Mb/s.
Typically, cheapo IOT devices (thermostats, smoke alarms, doorbells etc) only support 2.4 GHz which is slow and driven even slower by poor links to IOT devices with crap link budgets.
Laptops, Phones etc all support 5 GHz which is much faster and can support >> 100 Mbs/s.
Try turning off 2.4 GHz and see if that makes things better.
I've given each band a different SSID so laptops etc can't end up on 802.11b which is painfully slow in our house due to lots of IOT devices on it.
Phone may be connecting on 5Ghz and laptop on 2.4Ghz
edit: wot he said ^^