No offense but I think you are mixing up a few things OP, your WIFI and ETHERNET speed have NOTHING to do with your internet plan. Let me explain why. Your network has 2 sides, the WAN side (Wide Area Network) and the LAN side (Local Area Network).
The WAN side is the part between Verizon and your Router/Modem, also called the "WAN facing side". The contract with verizon determines how fast you can upload and download once the data gets TO your modem/router from your wifi connection or ethernet. It can go superfast or slow once there from your Computers and other devices (your LAN side).
The LAN side is anything between the router/modem they give you and your devices and is often called the "LAN facing side. Your network can only go as fast as the slowest part lets it.
Now to make things more complicated things are measure in megabits per second at the ISP and for WIFI and ethernet while windows measures things in kilobytes and megabytes per second. Eight bits is one byte, so you can divide megabits by 8 to find the real number in megaBYTES (what windows uses). Eight isn't perfect because some of what is transmitted isn't actually data that you asked for, but data to correct errors and to tell the stuff where to go and other stuff. This is called "overhead" and so you need to really divide your Megabits by TEN and not EIGHT to get a real number.
Verizon 25.5 megabits per sec up and own equals about 2.5 megabytes per second in Windows for example.
Now to use all of that 25.5 megabits only requires you to have roughly the same connection speeds from your wifi card or ethernet.
Computers have had 10 base t or 100 base t internet for the longest time, this is 10 Megabit ( same as 1 megabyteper sec ) and 100 megabit (10 megabytes per second) since the the 1990's. If you have a computer built within the last 4 years you probably have GIGABIT Ethernet. This is 100 Megabytes per sec as measured in windows) *
8 (Giga means billion and is the same as 100 megabytes because a billion bits per sec divided by 10 is 100 million BYTES per second or 100 Mega bytes, Mega means a million.)
Now 100 base t (100 megabit), or 1000 base t (1000 megabit or "Giga" bit) is certainly faster than 25.5 megabit.
100 or 1000 is much larger than 25.5.
Even if you upload and download at the same time that's only 50 megabits total bandwidth you need and Ethernet has you covered. ethernet cards are usually full duplex which means they can do uploading and downloading at the same time. Half duplex means one at a time basically, but that's old and you likely don't need to worry about it on Ethernet.
It works the same way for WIFI. What is different is that if you look in your os at your connection speed it's giving you the speed it initially connected you at and not always the actual current speed when you look at it. It's that way because wifi fluctuates often where Ethernet doesn't. It looks better than seeing your wifi symbol go nuts and constantly chance the number of bars you get. People would complain more and the people that make operating systems don't like that.
If your wifi averages over 25 megabits per sec then you are maxing it out in that direction. Some really low end wifi is half duplex and can only transmit or receive slowly. This is usually the case with super cheap laptops because they only have 1 antenna that has to take turns doing both.
Decent equipment has 2 or more antennas and can use both without bogging down. This gives you a better connection.
What you need to do is get some kind of tool like Inssider to check your average wifi connection and make sure it's at least 50 megabits per second (wifi is generally shown in bits in the OS when looking at the connection speed between the card and router). if your speeds on wifi and ethernet are way above your connection from verizon then you don't need to upgrade your wifi or ethernet to get faster internet, it wont help.
INSSIDER IS NO LONGER OFFERING FREE TRIAIL AS FAR AS I KNOW SO YOU NEED TO CHECK OR FIND ANOTHER WAY TO MEASURE YOU AVERAGE WIFI SPEED.
The easiest way is probably to connect and disconnect your wifi in your os a lot and see if it varies it's stated connection speed a lot or not. If not it is probably fairly stable and you
can divide by 10 if it's in BITS.
The same principle applies in reverse, if you upgrade your internet plan to say 100 megabits, but your Wifi and ethernet cant connect at 100 megabits and connect at say 70 then it also won't give you the full benefit.
DragonSlayer7832 :
I want upgrade my WiFi and Ethernet but i don't know how i currently have a modem/router all in one from Verizon fios and have a 25 25 up and down speed i want to be on a budget but i dont want to go super low. So i don't know what to do can you leave any advice or hardware i should use thanks i would really appreciate it . Also i have a netgear at200 nano powerline adapter
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