how to fix slow Wi-Fi and get increased data speeds in this video I will be
showing you how you can figure out what's causing the issue as well as on
how you can fix the issue as well now before we start looking into what's
causing the exact issue why the Wi-Fi is slow
here is a quick layout to show you guys what a typical network looks like on the
leftmost we have the ISP which is our Internet service provider and the modem
is connected to the ISP and then we have the Wi-Fi router which is connected to
the modem for some of the users they might have an all-in-one solution where
the modem and Wi-Fi router are together and then on the right we have all the
clients so the clients are let's say it's your mobile device that you're
connecting to the Wi-Fi it could be a PC tablet and then you know there are many
other devices that you might have connected to the Wi-Fi network so the
reason why your internet might be slow is because of the connection between the
ISP and the modem let's say there are throttling your data connection but it
could also be that your Wi-Fi router is slow or it could be the connection
between the Wi-Fi router and the devices has some issue or it could be the device
itself there are two approaches you can use to see if your internet service
provider is throttling your internet connection or not the first approach is
slightly advanced so if you're not familiar with networking at all and you
don't want to take out any cable out of your modem feel free to follow the
second safer approach now I have my Wi-Fi router with me and what you'll
need to do is you'll need to go on the back side of your Wi-Fi router where you
will have all the cables connected and look for the one that connects the modem
to the Wi-Fi router and you'll need to take that cable out that cable will look
something like this and what you'll need to do is you'll
need to plug it into your computer when you do that you will have a network I
can show up on your computer and then you will need to go on two websites one
of them is speedtest.net and run a speed test so that is my speed test one and
I'm gonna wait out for it to finish
so I know now that my maximum download speed is 927 Mbps the next website you
should go on is fast.com and run a speed test there as well so I've already
ran it on my computer and ask per the fast.com speed test my speed is 500
90 Mbps in case you got speeds less than on both the speed tests then what plan
you have with your internet service provider there could be some kind of
throttling but for me since I have a 300 Mbps plan and in both tests the speed
was way more than what my plan is it doesn't look like there is any kind of
throttling happening on my network right now now one thing to note is that you
should close any application that might be using the internet connection other
than the speed test otherwise you might end up getting inaccurate results once
you've ran the speed test you can safely plug in the networking cable back into
your Wi-Fi router the second approach that you can do to see if your internet
service provider is throttling your data connection or not what you can do is you
can turn off all devices but one so let's say if you have your mobile device
you can install an app called speed test speed test it's available for free on
Play Store and all you will need to do is take your phone near your Wi-Fi
router as close as possible and run a speed test there so what I've done is
I've placed my mobile device I disconnected all my other devices on
the network and now I'm gonna run a speed test
so my data plane is 300mbps and I'm still getting very fast speeds
something to note here is that my speeds from my approach one are different from
approach two because I have a speed restriction on my Wi-Fi router otherwise
I would be having higher speeds and that speed is somewhere around 300 Mbps so in
my case since I'm getting more than 300 Mbps and I have a 300 Mbps plan I do not
have any issue with my internet service provider however in case let's say
you're getting only 10 Mbps but you are paying for 400 Mbps there is definitely some
kind of issue with your internet service provider the next step for us will be to
see if there is any kind of issue with our Wi-Fi router if you have a Wi-Fi
router with external antennas similar to mine you should make sure that the
external antenna is tightly connected to your Wi-Fi router now I've had issues in
the past where I was having issues with my Wi-Fi just because the antenna was
loosely connected to my router so let's rule that out that it's not causing any
issue for you guys as well in case your external antenna was loosely connected
to your router and you have tighten it up now feel free to run a speed test at
this point to see if your speeds have improved or not we can also make some
kind of configuration changes to our Wi-Fi router to make sure that it's
working properly in your Wi-Fi router settings make sure that the transmit
power is set to high if you have an advanced router make sure
that beamforming and nat boost is enabled once you have made those changes
on your Wi-Fi router make sure to run another speed test and you can do that
by using the speed test or you can use the fast app as well either you can do
the test on your mobile device or your computer and see if you notice any kind
of improvement in your Wi-Fi if the performance is still not improved the
next step would be to see if there is any kind of issue between the Wi-Fi
router and the clients there are three things you should be checking to see if
there is any kind of issue between the Wi-Fi router and the device you can
check if the speed varies based on the distance so you can do two speed test one
beside the Wi-Fi router and then go far away and see if in another room you are
getting the same speed or not the second thing you should be noting down is that
if there is any kind of obstruction it is gonna reduce the Wi-Fi signal and
that might be the reason why you might be getting really slow Wi-Fi speeds
which brings down to our third point which is location ideally you should
have the Wi-Fi located in a central location where your Wi-Fi router is not
too far from all of the devices in your area now in case you have a very large
house and you're not able to get enough signal what you'll need to do is get a
Wi-Fi extender you can get the Wi-Fi range extenders from Amazon and they do
not cost too much the next step for us would be to see if there is any kind of
problem with the device that we are using so for this example I actually
have two different devices on which I ran speed test
and the one on the right is a newer device it gives me 260 Mbps when it's
connected to Wi-Fi while the one on the Left gets me only 54 Mbps so it really
depends on which device you have if it's a really old device you might be getting
slower speeds just because it's old and you can simply determine it by running
speed test on each of the devices like I did make sure to run the speed test just
one at a time another thing you can do is you can make sure that your devices
are using a better DNS service the one I recommend is 1.1.1.1
and if you have a mobile device you can just install the app it's available on
the Play Store as well as on Apple Store as well once you install it you'll need
to enable it and it's enabled and make sure in the settings it's set to just
using the CloudFlare's DNS you can apply that DNS profile to all your
devices whether it's mobile PC or tablet to ensure that they benefit from a
better DNS service something to note is that if you have a hundred Mbps plan and
let's say the PC user is downloading something and it's taking the full
bandwidth available that does not leave anything available for the other devices
and they might experience slowdown as well in case you have an advanced router
you can enable QoS on your routers and you can limit how much bandwidth should
be available to each device as well so let's say instead of 100 Mbps this
device will only get let us say 90 Mbps and the 10 Mbps will be available to
other devices they would not have any kind of slowdown
in service There are some other things that can slow down your network as well for
example torrents if you have a torrent application running on any of the
machines you might notice that the Wi-Fi is really really slow when you're
accessing webpages and that is because torrent uses a lot of connections and
what you'll need to do is update the configuration of torrent whichever
application you're using to use less connections less connections you're done
making those changes you should be experiencing fast networking speeds do
let me know through comments if you have any kind of questions following the
tutorial and I'll be very happy to answer them thank you for watching it
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