Ethernet and Wi-fi speeds match up. Problem is Download rate is not.

[chishio8]

I use uTorrent and over wi-fi, my download rate is capped at 2.1 MBps but when plugged in directly via ethernet, my speeds jump to 7+ MBps. On Speed test.net, I got 56 Mbps and 60 Mbps on ethernet. Shouldn't my speeds in utorrent match up? I was thinking maybe my wireless card is to blame and I was thinking of upgrading it or buying a powerline. Thinking of getting the Intel centrino N6230 chip as an upgrade. What might be the problem and the best solution?

Also I'm right directly above my router. My room is on the second floor directly above it. So I doubt it's a distance thing.

ISP: Comcast 50Mbps/20Mbps
Modem: Arris SB6121
Router: ASUS AC56R
Wireless Card: Ralink RT5390R

 

[modernwar99]

Speedtest.net measures internet speed in megaBITS per seconds, not the megaBYTES per second utorrent is displaying. There are 8 megabits per megabyte, plus ISPs throttle torrent downloading which will probably cap your DL speed at 2 megabytes per second most of the time. Ethernet will always be faster than wireless, but not sure why it's a 400% increase. Have you tried doing a hard reset on the router (unplug power for 1 min, plug back in)?

 

[chishio8]

Speedtest.net measures internet speed in megaBITS per seconds, not the megaBYTES per second utorrent is displaying. There are 8 megabits per megabyte, plus ISPs throttle torrent downloading which will probably cap your DL speed at 2 megabytes per second most of the time. Ethernet will always be faster than wireless, but not sure why it's a 400% increase. Have you tried doing a hard reset on the router (unplug power for 1 min, plug back in)?

Yea I know the difference.That's why I put MBps for Utorrent and Mbps for speedtest. As far as I know Comcast doesn't throttle P2P and glasnost test agree. Comcast has it on their website stating that they don't. I have done a hard reset a few times and nothing really changes. I test utorrent speeds by using highly seeded torrents (1000+ seeders) and over wireless, max I've seen is 2.3MBps but ethernet is 7+MBps on the same torrent. I'm assuming that my wireless card is to blame. I've run test and switched WiFi channels (channel 9 currently). Channels 1,6,11 are popular in my neighborhood.

 

[modernwar99]

Oh... a cable company like Comcast definitely throttles torrent downloading. I have TWC which is owned by Comcast and torrents, youtube, itunes, and a lot of game downloads are throttled by TWC. Luckily there are ways to block TWC's servers that throttle the connection. On average, my torrent DL speed is around 2mbps with TWC's 20mbps internet package.

 

[chishio8]

Oh... a cable company like Comcast definitely throttles torrent downloading. I have TWC which is owned by Comcast and torrents, youtube, itunes, and a lot of game downloads are throttled by TWC. Luckily there are ways to block TWC's servers that throttle the connection. On average, my torrent DL speed is around 2mbps with TWC's 20mbps internet package.

In my case, I don't believe it's throttled because of my speeds when directly plugged via ethernet. You might as well downgrade your internet if it's being throttled. I did my research before switching to comcast haha.

 

[Victoria Sowers]

whoa, whoa, whoa... i am having the same problem. and looking at related topics over the last 2 months... this is becoming more and more clear... i am on a 100Mb connection. a file caching service used to serve me files @ 10MB/sec. now i get 1,300KB/sec. (via ethernet). now however, my android devices via wifi can still download from caching site @ 4MB/sec, while the ethernet connected devices only get 1,300KB/sec... remove the router from the equation, and the ethernet connected PC will download full speed, but only 50% of the time. so i must start a download from caching service, if its 1,300KB/sec i must cancel then restart until it gives me full speed 4-10MB/sec.

call me crazy but i am starting to see a pattern here... DAMMIT!

fight for the future... (google it, participate, donate if you must) mother-flipping FCC is screwing us... its happening now...