OT, Amazon Fire Stick 4K

Don't know where to ask this but I'll try here Even if OT.
Why is my Fire Stick 4k Wi-Fi download speed faster than my Ethernet
wired adapter?
The Wi-Fi is using the 5 GHz radio band, the Ethernet is fed from the
router to an Amazon Ethernet adapter then to the Fire Stick.

Wi_fi gives me 165 GHz
the Ethernet gives me 82 GHz.
Mostly just curious.

Rene

In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Don't know where to ask this but I'll try here Even if OT.
Why is my Fire Stick 4k Wi-Fi download speed faster than my Ethernet
wired adapter?
The Wi-Fi is using the 5 GHz radio band, the Ethernet is fed from the
router to an Amazon Ethernet adapter then to the Fire Stick.

is your ethernet wired adapter 100bt?

Wi_fi gives me 165 GHz
the Ethernet gives me 82 GHz.

you must mean gb/s, not ghz

On 2019-10-09 12:23 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Don't know where to ask this but I'll try here Even if OT.
Why is my Fire Stick 4k Wi-Fi download speed faster than my Ethernet
wired adapter?
The Wi-Fi is using the 5 GHz radio band, the Ethernet is fed from the
router to an Amazon Ethernet adapter then to the Fire Stick.

is your ethernet wired adapter 100bt?

Wi_fi gives me 165 GHz
the Ethernet gives me 82 GHz.

you must mean gb/s, not ghz


Yes 100, Sorry, Meant Mb/s not GH, Anyway did another set of tests and
now am getting 250 Mb/s for 3 consecutive tests this is at the TV using
www.fast.com
My download speed at the computer is consistent at 335 Mb/s,
Somewhere I seem to recall reading that some Ethernet adapters such as
mine are only capable of 100 Mb/s or so, Not sure if this is true. If so
that might explain it, Needless to say I am staying on Wi-Fi.

Rene'

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-10-09 12:23 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Don't know where to ask this but I'll try here Even if OT.
Why is my Fire Stick 4k Wi-Fi download speed faster than my Ethernet
wired adapter?
The Wi-Fi is using the 5 GHz radio band, the Ethernet is fed from the
router to an Amazon Ethernet adapter then to the Fire Stick.

is your ethernet wired adapter 100bt?

Wi_fi gives me 165 GHz
the Ethernet gives me 82 GHz.

you must mean gb/s, not ghz


Yes 100, Sorry, Meant Mb/s not GH, Anyway did another set of tests and
now am getting 250 Mb/s for 3 consecutive tests this is at the TV using
www.fast.com
My download speed at the computer is consistent at 335 Mb/s,
Somewhere I seem to recall reading that some Ethernet adapters such as
mine are only capable of 100 Mb/s or so, Not sure if this is true. If so
that might explain it, Needless to say I am staying on Wi-Fi.

Rene'

Yes, there are some routers where they used 100BT ports
instead of GbE. Seems strange to do that when giving 250Mbit/sec
on the radio side. Some rental modems in the States are
designed that way, I guess to annoy the customer as
much as possible. Some of this equipment with 100BT
on it, isn't really all that old.

Lucky for me, my WAN isn't fast enough to hit such limits,
so I'll never have this problem :-/

Paul

On 2019-10-09, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-10-09 12:23 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Don't know where to ask this but I'll try here Even if OT.
Why is my Fire Stick 4k Wi-Fi download speed faster than my Ethernet
wired adapter?
The Wi-Fi is using the 5 GHz radio band, the Ethernet is fed from the
router to an Amazon Ethernet adapter then to the Fire Stick.

is your ethernet wired adapter 100bt?

Wi_fi gives me 165 GHz
the Ethernet gives me 82 GHz.

you must mean gb/s, not ghz


Yes 100, Sorry, Meant Mb/s not GH, Anyway did another set of tests and
now am getting 250 Mb/s for 3 consecutive tests this is at the TV using
www.fast.com
My download speed at the computer is consistent at 335 Mb/s,
Somewhere I seem to recall reading that some Ethernet adapters such as
mine are only capable of 100 Mb/s or so, Not sure if this is true. If so
that might explain it, Needless to say I am staying on Wi-Fi.

Rene'

Read that both the Fire TV & Roku use 10/100 chips for ethernet;
infact, lots of stuff still do the 10/100 instead of 10/100/1ghz. I think
my 4K tv is also at the 10/100. Most ethernet adapters for the fire tv
is also using 10/100 chipsets.

I still do an 'overkill' with 1ghz switches.

On 2019-10-09 2:58 p.m., lew wrote:
On 2019-10-09, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-10-09 12:23 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Don't know where to ask this but I'll try here Even if OT.
Why is my Fire Stick 4k Wi-Fi download speed faster than my Ethernet
wired adapter?
The Wi-Fi is using the 5 GHz radio band, the Ethernet is fed from the
router to an Amazon Ethernet adapter then to the Fire Stick.

is your ethernet wired adapter 100bt?

Wi_fi gives me 165 GHz
the Ethernet gives me 82 GHz.

you must mean gb/s, not ghz


Yes 100, Sorry, Meant Mb/s not GH, Anyway did another set of tests and
now am getting 250 Mb/s for 3 consecutive tests this is at the TV using
www.fast.com
My download speed at the computer is consistent at 335 Mb/s,
Somewhere I seem to recall reading that some Ethernet adapters such as
mine are only capable of 100 Mb/s or so, Not sure if this is true. If so
that might explain it, Needless to say I am staying on Wi-Fi.

Rene'

Read that both the Fire TV & Roku use 10/100 chips for ethernet;
infact, lots of stuff still do the 10/100 instead of 10/100/1ghz. I think
my 4K tv is also at the 10/100. Most ethernet adapters for the fire tv
is also using 10/100 chipsets.

I still do an 'overkill' with 1ghz switches.


Thanks all for the info, Will stay wit Wi-Fi on the TV, Ethernet to the
2 computers and printer.

Rene

On 10/9/19 2:58 PM, lew wrote:

[snip]

I still do an 'overkill' with 1ghz switches.

I frequently transfer files between computers, at speeds much higher
than possible with 100M switches/ports.

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