Could some of you fine people post here results of what you get from speedtest.net while testing mobile data and wifi data? I’m interested on both, top speeds and averages of several tests, up and down. What are HW theaoretical limits vs. real world.
L5 EG, PureOS.
4G Only L5 VPN - 20-39Mbps - 162ms
Wifi Only L5 VPN - 19-22Mbps - 54ms
Wifi Only ext VPN - 26Mbps - 20ms
I am a little surprised at the high latency while on 4G, and Wifi, i am using OpenVPN running on the L5 and it more than doubles latency which makes me wonder if it could be a bad configuration in the openvpn file. Download was varying quite a bit interestingly almost a factor of two.
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wifi: 38.06mbps - 18ms
4g: 32.20mbps - 28ms
I am currently on vdsl with ~80mbps on my laptop (LAN). I will get fibre in the coming months, 1000mbps, but I doubt the L5 will benefit from it. I also tested with a Xiaomi phone which reached 82mbps.
However, I never had the feeling of lack of bandwidth using the L5. Sometimes loading a website takes long to start - due to a bug as I have read.
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The BM818 mobile modem has theoretical limits of 150/50 Mbps and Redpine wifi brochure states “802.11n: MCS0 to MCS7” which translates to max 150Mbps using optimal modulation and frequency etc., if I’m not mistaken (see table of MSC index). You may also want to try different servers near and further. Also good to know, if your contract has a speed cap.
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I think that Wifi speed should be tested with/against a laptop connected to the router with LAN. And the speed of the router to/from Internet also with a laptop connected to the router with LAN. All other values are a mix and imprecise.
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That would give us something to compare against locally with wifi. Mobile, which interests me a bit more atm, is more difficult. My stats were
mobile data (best of today, tried at different spots):
66.9Mbps down (mostly closer to 50Mbps),
44.5Mbps up (pretty close to average),
ping 23ms
wifi, 2m from AP, line of sight (LAN 55.1Mbps dl / 58.7Mbps up, ping 2):
33.9Mbps dl
28.7Mbps up
ping 6ms
Side question: anyone yet measure power consumption mobile data vs. wifi data (download same files, surf or stream for an hour etc.)? As in, from power saving point, which one should users prefer?
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