These are very good speeds for wi-fi, right? I know using an ethernet cable would be faster, but a) I no longer even have one, and b) my modem/router is located in an area 100% void of furniture. I would have to sit on the floor or something.

So I can't test with an ethernet, but I made some tweaks to my modem/router and man these speeds look good to me, especially for wi-fi speeds. A FIOS representative stopped by to try and sell me FIOS and claimed their wi-fi speeds would be even faster. Anyone know if that's true before i consider jumping to FIOS?

EDIT: I do know their (FIOS) overall speed is faster than my current ISP, (using an ethernet connection) but I'm wondering if wi-fi speeds would really be any faster.

Woohoo! Broke the 200 barrier for the first time (lastcapture).

That's nice! So what is it, a gigabit connection or what? At least here the current common "fast speed" seems to be 100Mbps, and the next step would be to upgrade it to a 1 Gbps connection (which of course will probably remain lower than that due to various reasons; just the theoretical upper limit I guess).

I'm still happy using my 10Mbps cable modem for normal stuff, and if I want to download something really big, maybe switch to my 4G mobile connection that will give me 20-50Mbps, depending on the time of the day. That's still plenty fast for me, but of course extra speed would always be nice for those extra big downloads. The only reason I haven't updated to 100Mbps (or more) is because I am such a cheapskate.

I find it a bit odd though that you have such ultra-high tech internet connection... but no mobile phone? So you are both very advanced and very retro when it comes to technology.


I forgot to ask: what kind of download speeds are you getting from GOG now?

You're getting more than 200x my speeds, so I'd call that good. ; )

Re: upgrading to FIOS. If it's a higher cost, then weigh the cost versus what you're actually going to be doing with the connection. That 150-200 Mbps you're getting now is - in my opinion - really darn fast already, and should be more than enough to deal with several people downloading or streaming at the same time. I think 1080p is something like 5-10 Mbps, and 4k HD would be, well, ~4x that much. You've got that covered big-time already.

The cost issue is... a non-issue. The cost of Fios would be $3 more a month for TV, Phone, and Internet than what I'm paying Comcast for TV, Phone, and Internet. Or, if you broke that down into the 3 services.... $1 a month. LOL

I do know that my ethernet speeds would be faster (they have a 1GB speed.... or 980Mbs per second. Though you won't see those speeds everywhere) but I really can't imagine Wi-Fi being any faster. And if Wi-Fi isn't, I'm not changing. Now if I found out their wi-fi speeds were 300 or 400 Mbs, then that would probably worth the $1 a month (though again, that's not really the factor... the factor is the PITA of changing everything.TV, phone and internet and a new learning curve to overcome)

But I always thought wi-fi speeds were way. way lower than ethernet speeds. In fact, I always thought 200Mbs was out of range for wi-fi speeds.... until I topped it last night LOL. Sure am glad I found those tweaks to do to the modem/router. Before my wi-fi speeds were about 150 to 160. Made a significant difference. My plan says 200Mbs. And until last night I thought that was only reachable with the ethernet. LOL. FIOS offers a 1G speed for about the same price that I'm paying now.

As for GoG, using my browser (probably be faster with Galaxy???) I'm getting about 12-15MBs when I download games, which has always been significantly slower than Steam, on which I get consistent 30MBs. Which is very nice LOL. I downloaded the whole Fallout 4 (almost 100Gb) in about 20 minutes, which was awesome compared to what I was hearing others talk about on the forums. But for some reason GoG has always been slower, and I think it's probably that I'm using my browser. (In fact, when I use JUST my browser (Firefox) all I get is 3.5MBs. I only get the 12-15 when using DownThemAll, a download manager for Firefox.

The 802.11n should have a theoretical max speed of about 300Mbps, though usual would be about 100Mbps. The 802.11ac has a theoretical max speed of ~7Gbps, though usual is closer to 2Gbps.
Remember that you always connect at the lower protocol your devices support, so if one device is 802.11n and the other 802.11ac you will be using the 802.11n speeds.

Wow. I never knew wi-fi had advanced to that. The modem supports all of those. How do I find out what my laptop has? Under Device Manager maybe? I'll check there.

Do you know if you are using NAT currently? I think my cable modem operator has said that if one upgrades the 10Mbps connection to 100Mbps, then one should switch the cable modem to bridged mode, meaning that each device that connects to the modem will get a true public IP address.

The problem is that they offer only five such IP addresses, meaning one could have max five devices connected to it. Nowadays when one might want fo connect all sorts of tablets, smart TVs, IoT devices etc to the router as well (with wifi), being restricted to only five IP addresses could be a problem. i guess the workaround would be to connect another router to the cable modem, and let it offer NAT (against one public IP address).

Also I kinda like using NAT due to the extra protection it is supposed to offer against incoming connections, but then I don't know how meaningful security measure this is nowadays.

Anyway, I was wondering if this is a generic restriction in routers and shit, ie. these higher speeds need bridged mode.