Wifi connection to router vs ethernet..... speed difference

[Michael Simpson 24]

Hi. I currently access 3's 5G broadband service using a Huawei 5G CPE Pro (Balong 5000) router - I have to locate this some way down my garden to pick up a signal.
I notice that when connecting to the router using a cat6 ethernet cable (either 3m or 100m), I get c. 80Mbps down. When connecting via my iPhone 12 and wifi i get c. 250Mbps. Before I daisy chain a set of wifi extenders across my garden, does anyone have any views why i get much better speeds when connected via wifi?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Bubblesthefish6]

Hi. I currently access 3's 5G broadband service using a Huawei 5G CPE Pro (Balong 5000) router - I have to locate this some way down my garden to pick up a signal.
I notice that when connecting to the router using a cat6 ethernet cable (either 3m or 100m), I get c. 80Mbps down. When connecting via my iPhone 12 and wifi i get c. 250Mbps. Before I daisy chain a set of wifi extenders across my garden, does anyone have any views why i get much better speeds when connected via wifi?
Thanks in advance.

The ethernet controller is flawed in this router. That router also has WiFi 6 so your phone will be connecting at a very high link speed. You cannot look at the link speed I don't think on an iPhone. I don't really know how you would sort this out but this is what I've got: Sit the wifi extender right next to the router then plug a mesh system into the WiFi extender. The WiFi extenders are awful. Mesh is much better.

 

[Lucian]

Wow, didn't expect you could still fail at Ethernet in 2021, especially Huawei.

 

[Bubblesthefish6]

The whole product is flawed really. It's badly designed which is why they swiftly replaced it with the CPE Pro 2

 

[Bubblesthefish6]

Bad ethernet controller, bad firmware updates, bad 5G antenna design, bad 5G speeds, can't see some bands that are being broadcasted (Applies to 4G only).

 

[Buggerlugz]

I certainly wouldn't recommend Huawei routers personally, certainly the quality/speed of the processors used with the lack of firmware updates, its enough to put me off. (That and other considerations.)

 

[Lucian]

Fair enough. Personally I am happy with my CPE Win H312-371 (which I think shares many things with the CPE PRO 1) and the B535 is not half bad either.

 

[Bubblesthefish6]

I couldn't fault my B535 either Lucian. Only pesky thing is i can't get rid of the three firmware but i can't complain as it was free with my contract lol.

 

[winstainforth]

Thanks for this, I posted a few weeks ago why ethernet is slower than WiFi, now I know!

 

[isyaqoob]

for me its totally different i just bout 5G CPE router everything is fine but the strange thing is if i use wifi and speed test give me around 90 MBPS download speed and if i use LAN it goes to 900 MBPS its very strange i was wondering may be because i have old 4G s9+ smartphone and it has old wifi technology. This is very strange the LAN speed is 9 time faster also i tested by download 10 gb test file which was downloaded in 5 minutes but wifi needs hours. I have trield wifi laptop same result.

 

[Lucian]

@isyaqoob the rule of thumb is that ethernet beats wifi, maybe wifi6 will change this, but so far this has been the case.

 

[kommando828]

Go into advanced against the wifi link on your phone and look at the frequency (2.4 or 5) and the data rate of the connection.

 

[The Wee Bear]

Go into advanced against the wifi link on your phone and look at the frequency (2.4 or 5) and the data rate of the connection.

Here's my WiFi 6 connection on my Tablet. Lovely Jubbly.

That's with my CPE Pro 2 and Galaxy Tab 7.

 

[kommando828]

I get 526mbs reported on my Draytek 2925AC, if I go outside and connect to one of my old outdoor 2.4G antenna I get 72 mbs.

 

[eccles]

I have found no difference between 5 gig wi-fi and ethernet from my B818-263. 2.4 gig is slower. But with 4g+ I'm obviously working from a lower baseline with peak download speeds around 160mb/s.