wifi configuration

[cmdima]

I live in a house, the router is about 4 or 5 meters from the Pi, there`s a wall in between but there are open spaces in betwenn.

I`m using the speedtest app in my cell phone, the same the ARES wizard uses to test the connection.

When connected the Pi I measure the speed and is still in 9 mbps. And the pi shows nothing. I don't want to think that there are issues with th pi's antenna...

[Shadowron]

@cmdima Funny you mention this. Last week my old modem got fried, had no problems with this model. Got a different model from my ISP and Kodi is almost unusable. For example if i use Youtube on 720p i see the buffering icon more than the actual video.

Mobile phone everything works fine (9.1 Mbits/s). Just tested my pi with speedtest-cli and got a whooping download speed of 0.11 Mbits/s(!). Even the upload speed was 0.91 Mbits/s.

Gonna dive further into this as i'm quite sure this has to do with my new modem.

Edit: second test gave me 0.05 down and 1.32 up.

[jonnykesh]

It's definitely not a hardware issue with the Pi. Just tested mine using speedtest-cli and I get:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from BT (86.xxx.xxx.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Wi-Manx Limited (Douglas) [104.73 km]: 41.776 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 64.73 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 17.83 Mbit/s

Have you set your WiFi country properly?
Maybe try changing channels on your router.

[Shadowron]

@jonnykesh Thanks for confirming. What i tried so far.

• Disable power management on pi
• Set WiFi country on pi
• Disable QoS and WMM
• Changed 802.11 modes
• Changed channels

None gave any improvement.

[Drakaen391]

@shadowron can you run speedtest-cli and paste what it says?

[Drakaen391]

here is mine

pi@pibox:~/scripts $ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Comcast Cable (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Sprint (St. Paul, MN) [41.34 km]: 63.78 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 20.79 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed.....................................................................................
Upload: 12.36 Mbit/s
pi@pibox:~/scripts $ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Comcast Cable (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by CenturyLink (Saint Paul, MN) [41.93 km]: 61.278 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 37.64 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................

My actual speed is 200 Mps down 13 Up

But as you can see where it pings makes a huge difference

[Shadowron]

@drakaen391 I did release the entire DHCP table and the speedtests seem a bit better now. Most of time 5 Mbits/s down and 1 up. Seen one run that gave 0.2Mbits/s down on 7 or 8 tries. Kodi still as slow as before, unable to stream 720p. But don't mind, i will get another modem tomorrow. My previous one never gave any issues.

[cmdima]

@shadowron said in wifi configuration:

bile phone everything works fin

@Shadowron the same thing that happens to me, and if you connect the ethernet cable you have the whole speed.

Now that you mention my internet provider sent me a new modem time ago. I'll run the speedtest-cli and paste the image and check the modem country configuration.

[Shadowron]

@cmdima What brand of modem do you have? Maybe it's brand specific? I have a ZyXEL.

[Shadowron]

A little update about this situation.

I've contacted my ISP and i can't seem to switch out the modem. They sent me some firmware updates, which also didn't help. The solution they offered me was, buying an external WiFi adapter or hookup a router to the modem. Both options are out of the question for me.

But now something I can't put my head around. As said previously most of times i get speed under 1 Mbit/s, but as soon I transfer files over to the pi by SFTP i get much better speeds (atleast 5 Mbit/s stable). This proves there is nothing wrong with the signal or antenna in my case.