Wired Ethernet

[congenialoki]

Hi to all, have changed a wireless ethernet connection to a hard wired one to overcome the issue of the connection continously dropping, this is now fine. However have run a download speed test on the pi and only get 3mbps, I have a broadband router that delivers in the region of 20/25 mbps to a wireless laptop. Any ideas whats happening to the difference?

Still a very mature newbie!!

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi to all, have changed a wireless ethernet connection to a hard wired one to overcome the issue of the connection continously dropping, this is now fine. However have run a download speed test on the pi and only get 3mbps, I have a broadband router that delivers in the region of 20/25 mbps to a wireless laptop. Any ideas whats happening to the difference?

Still a very mature newbie!!

How are you measuring the speeds ??

[congenialoki]

With the terminal command, wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/do ... test10.zip

Have just tried it again and get a speed of 4.8mbps

Thanks for reply.

[drgeoff]

With the terminal command, wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/do ... test10.zip

Have just tried it again and get a speed of 4.8mbps

Thanks for reply.

You are aware that wget reports speeds in Bs per second? That is bytes not bits.

[rpdom]

A better test would be to compare how long it takes each computer to download a specific file, rather than comparing bit/byte rates.