I have a 2nd gen fire tv. When hooked directly to my router via ethernet cable, I am only getting about 4-5 Mbps down (and 1.5—2 Mbps over WiFi).
Meanwhile on my laptop (also directly connected to router) I'm getting about 35 Mbps, and around 20 Mbps on my phone over WiFi.
The numbers above were both in megabits per second, according to Speedtest.net.
My ping was also much higher on the Fire TV (between 200 and 300 ms on the FireTV, around 20ms on my laptop and phone.)
Is there something I'm doing wrong that is throttling my speed on my Fire TV? Or is the Fire TV not capable of faster data speeds?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide!
The AFTV2 is limited to a 100mbit port, so 100mbps / 8mbps/MBps = ~12.5 MB/s theoretical max throughput... though still less than your reported outcome.
LzeroKI said:
Is there something I'm doing wrong that is throttling my speed on my Fire TV? Or is the Fire TV not capable of faster data speeds?
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Invincibear said:
The AFTV2 is limited to a 100mbit port, so 100mbps / 8mbps/MBps = ~12.5 MB/s theoretical max throughput... though still less than your reported outcome.
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He most likely meant 4-5mbps which is I think about 700 KB/s
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Welp, this is embarrasing.
I saw an archived thread on this forum where someone was having a similar problem with speedtest results on their fire tv. The OP of that thread figured out what the problem was: trying to run the speedtest via the Speedtest.net website slowed their results due to use of web-embedded Flash. I followed the OP’s advice and sideloaded the android Speed Test app, and voila: a nearly constant 36 Mbps down.
So, I basically made a total noob mistake. Anyway, thanks for your assistance everyone! Hopefully others that have the same “problem” I did will see this thread at some point.
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So I just realized what I had always suspected: my wifi is terribly slow. I've had my inc for 7 months and I rarely turn wifi on at home because its simply not worth the 10 seconds or so it takes to get started. I just did a speed test on my inc and got .85 mbps. My computer gets 27 with Comcasts speed boost but usually around the 15 mbps that I should be getting. I have a laptop in the other room that gets 17, and my ipod touch gets about 10. But no matter what I do, I get less thatn 1 mbps on my inc. The upload speed is about 2.5, where its about 3.5 on the Ipod, but that's not the issue. Does anyone know of anything I can do with my router settings or inc settings or do I maybe just have a bad wifi chip?
I'm currently running OMFGB btw.
yeah, my wifi is pretty damn slow on mine too. sometimes it'll say its getting 5-6mbps with speedtest, while my computer gets 15-20.
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So I just realized what I had always suspected: my wifi is terribly slow. I've had my inc for 7 months and I rarely turn wifi on at home because its simply not worth the 10 seconds or so it takes to get started. I just did a speed test on my inc and got .85 mbps. My computer gets 27 with Comcasts speed boost but usually around the 15 mbps that I should be getting. I have a laptop in the other room that gets 17, and my ipod touch gets about 10. But no matter what I do, I get less thatn 1 mbps on my inc. The upload speed is about 2.5, where its about 3.5 on the Ipod, but that's not the issue. Does anyone know of anything I can do with my router settings or inc settings or do I maybe just have a bad wifi chip?
I'm currently running OMFGB btw.
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Try checking what channel your wifi is using. If you are in a highly populated area (ex. an apartment complex), your router may be on the same channel as several others which can dramatically slow down your performance. You might have a wireless b/g/n router and your laptop can see the n frequency (5G) while our Inc's can only see the b/g frequency (2G), and in that case, that is why your computer is getting better performance. Most newer computers (and some older) can see this 5G frequency, while most mobile devices can only see the 2G, which is why you're phone's speed is slowing down. Try a different channel that is empty or less crowded. It is quite common for many routers to operate on the same channel and newer routers have a function that automatically will switch to the least populated channel. Hope this helps, it has helped me in the past.
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Try checking what channel your wifi is using. If you are in a highly populated area (ex. an apartment complex), your router may be on the same channel as several others which can dramatically slow down your performance. You might have a wireless b/g/n router and your laptop can see the n frequency (5G) while our Inc's can only see the b/g frequency (2G), and in that case, that is why your computer is getting better performance. Most newer computers (and some older) can see this 5G frequency, while most mobile devices can only see the 2G, which is why you're phone's speed is slowing down. Try a different channel that is empty or less crowded. It is quite common for many routers to operate on the same channel and newer routers have a function that automatically will switch to the least populated channel. Hope this helps, it has helped me in the past.
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Thanks for the response I think this is my problem! I don't live in an apartment complex so I don't think that is the issue but I do think it is my router as I was just at my girlfriend's and was able to get the 5 mbps hers puts out. Any idea how I may go about changing the b/g/n to just b/g? I don't see an option in the router settings. I have a linksys. I now know I'm sort of in the wrong place but any help would be appreciated!
Edit: Never mind got it! Thanks!
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Thanks for the response I think this is my problem! I don't live in an apartment complex so I don't think that is the issue but I do think it is my router as I was just at my girlfriend's and was able to get the 5 mbps hers puts out. Any idea how I may go about changing the b/g/n to just b/g? I don't see an option in the router settings. I have a linksys. I now know I'm sort of in the wrong place but any help would be appreciated!
Edit: Never mind got it! Thanks!
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Glad to hear you solved your problem. You're very welcome.
Ok, I have charters 100mb service at home with has a Belkin N150 router hooked up to it...I do lots of speed tests and rarely will I get over 25mb on my speed tests...Usually between 20-25. Shouldn't I be getting alot more than that? I realize I loose some speed going thru the router, but that much? Is there anything I can do to improve? Does this sound normal to you guys? Many thanks
P.S. The speed test numbers are done from my galaxy nexus
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Ok, I have charters 100mb service at home with has a Belkin N150 router hooked up to it...I do lots of speed tests and rarely will I get over 25mb on my speed tests...Usually between 20-25. Shouldn't I be getting alot more than that? I realize I loose some speed going thru the router, but that much? Is there anything I can do to improve? Does this sound normal to you guys? Many thanks
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Depends on what else is using your internet
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Usually its just my phone and my galaxy 10.1 tab, but they are never online at the same time.
I read somewhere on here that the wifi on the GNexus is not that great and wasn't all that fast, the LTE is usually faster. I may be wrong.
Do you live in a large apartment building with extremely crowded wifi channels? I know that my Gnex gets about 7 Mbps (36 Cable connection) on 2.4 GHz because it's so crowded. When I switch the router to 5 GHz it gets about 34 Mbps because those channels are empty.
I have 35/35 fios that actually hits 42/30 on the every single computer and laptop at home. I have NEVER gotten higher then 29 on my phone and like the OP I usually only get 20-25. Buff McBig (great name btw) What do get on speedtest with your phone on wifi can you post a screen?
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I have 35/35 fios that actually hits 42/30 on the every single computer and laptop at home. I have NEVER gotten higher then 29 on my phone and like the OP I usually only get 20-25. Buff McBig (great name btw) What do get on speedtest with your phone on wifi can you post a screen?
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Apparently I exaggerated because I can only average 29 or 30 and max at 32. That is with 3 devices all samsung. The others are gtab 10.1 and sprint gs2. My transformer prime can't connect to 5ghz.
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every mobbile device is basically limited by its hardware, memory/cpu and throughput bottleneck. you cant get much higher than 30Mbps on the nexus as it's hitting hardware limits due to a mobile device.
thru the generations speedtest results have gone up though.
i test my phones download speed with http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ and i get some fast dowloads 10 to 40 mbpps. it one instance i got over 42. it kind of makes me suspect of the results.
when i tether and test my speeds, i usually get about 5 to 8, averaging 5 mostly. is tethering usually that slow compared to what the phone can download itself.
what kind of speeds are you averaging when tethering and how reliable do you think http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ is
I would use Speedtest.net (they also have an app for Android). The speeds are much more realistic.
Yeah dude.. I'd say to use speed test. Net because the results from the page you linked are showing my GS2 downloading at 54mbps while speed test shows 17... That's a huge difference..
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i test my phones download speed with http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ and i get some fast dowloads 10 to 40 mbpps. it one instance i got over 42. it kind of makes me suspect of the results.
when i tether and test my speeds, i usually get about 5 to 8, averaging 5 mostly. is tethering usually that slow compared to what the phone can download itself.
what kind of speeds are you averaging when tethering and how reliable do you think http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ is
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+1 Speedtest. I've never got anything anywhere close to 40 Mbps on my phone, and I've tested on 4 different networks in 4 different countries.
I've had my t310 for a while and noticed its wifi performance is a lot slower than my other devices.
I'm running a topnotch 2.4/5ghz dualband router with 100mbit fibre optic connection, theres also a laptop connected via ethernet with a massive harddrive for the whole house.
My PCs get roughly 24megabytes/s for file transfers and 13megabytes/s as download speed through fibre (450mbit wireless). My tablet reaches 7mbytes max on both internet and local file transfer. My S4 gets 13+ on both.
Does this tablet use inferior wifi hardware? Both phone and tablet are connected to the 5ghz signal at 150mbits yet my phone reaches almost twice the speed right next to the router.
Ive messed around with tcp buffer tweaks and different congestion controls but noticed no difference. I've also tried original firmware, modified stock and CM.
Does anyone have some performance numbers I can compare to?
I have the sam issue on my sm t-315, its supposed to be a b/g/n card, bytt I cant get wifi speed above 40Mb/s. My Htc one max gets past 100 on the same network.? Is this a known fact? Is there a fix
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I've had my t310 for a while and noticed its wifi performance is a lot slower than my other devices.
I'm running a topnotch 2.4/5ghz dualband router with 100mbit fibre optic connection, theres also a laptop connected via ethernet with a massive harddrive for the whole house.
My PCs get roughly 24megabytes/s for file transfers and 13megabytes/s as download speed through fibre (450mbit wireless). My tablet reaches 7mbytes max on both internet and local file transfer. My S4 gets 13+ on both.
Does this tablet use inferior wifi hardware? Both phone and tablet are connected to the 5ghz signal at 150mbits yet my phone reaches almost twice the speed right next to the router.
Ive messed around with tcp buffer tweaks and different congestion controls but noticed no difference. I've also tried original firmware, modified stock and CM.
Does anyone have some performance numbers I can compare to?
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The tablet network hardware is fine. Is it inferior to your desktop computer, the Wifi is not, but yes, it will never keep up the sustained data rate that your desktop can since your desktop probably has several GB more RAM.
Speed test software depends on a lot of factors not just network speed. You should test more carefully. In fact to test the performance of a device, only test locally on your LAN, not the internet. I get much better numbers than yours on the Tab 3.8 on the LAN hitting a local server. You will also likely get much better overall performance on the 2.4 Ghz channels than 5 Ghz unless you are always next to the router.
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The tablet network hardware is fine. Is it inferior to your desktop computer, the Wifi is not, but yes, it will never keep up the sustained data rate that your desktop can since your desktop probably has several GB more RAM.
Speed test software depends on a lot of factors not just network speed. You should test more carefully. In fact to test the performance of a device, only test locally on your LAN, not the internet. I get much better numbers than yours on the Tab 3.8 on the LAN hitting a local server. You will also likely get much better overall performance on the 2.4 Ghz channels than 5 Ghz unless you are always next to the router.
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Not being rude but I did say that I get the same performance accessing local files on LAN and internet which is roughly 7megabytes/s whereas my phone reaches double that with similar cpu and ram specs. The tablet has plenty of ram, I barely ever get close to using all of it so that is not the issue either. 5ghz is faster for me than 2.4 and yes, I am next to the router.
It's not even down to the write speed of the internal memory sinde that reaches well over 20megabytes/s sustained writing which leads me to the only other thing, which is the wifi controller.
Edit: the only reason I mentioned speedtest results was to rule out the possibility of the source drive being slow on my local network. I tested the speed both using speedtest and downloading an OS image from Microsoft
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The tablet network hardware is fine. Is it inferior to your desktop computer, the Wifi is not, but yes, it will never keep up the sustained data rate that your desktop can since your desktop probably has several GB more RAM.
Speed test software depends on a lot of factors not just network speed. You should test more carefully. In fact to test the performance of a device, only test locally on your LAN, not the internet. I get much better numbers than yours on the Tab 3.8 on the LAN hitting a local server. You will also likely get much better overall performance on the 2.4 Ghz channels than 5 Ghz unless you are always next to the router.
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Well I think not, I test with the same prog on the same server and the same network. It got to be the tab that is faulty configured. My guess is either the radio or the kernel or both.
Hey I was just wondering if someone could help me out with an odd situation ive been having with my FIRE TV. Im beginning to think ive been given a defective unit. I have a 100mbps down rate and the fire tv roughly 5 meters away from my DIR655 router (behind one wall) .
I noticed that majority of the videos i played on my fire tv would constantly stutter or constant buffering so i decided to run a speed test on my device and found that i was getting speeds of roughly 5-7 mbps down only although the FIRETV says im receiving a good signal . While all my other devices in the same location were getting roughly 65 mbps . Ive tinkered with my router finding the most suitable channel switching wireless between wireless b g n and also mixed with no changes to my speed. I even created a wireless bridge between an old router and connected it directly via ethernet. The bridge router was receiving roughly 50 mbps when connected directly to my laptop via ethernet although when i switch it to the FIRETV my rates dropped back to 5-10mbps . The only solution i currently have is running a 100 foot ethernet across my rooms to the FIRETV from my DIR655 main router.
Is there some way i can increase the wifi signal? ive tried resting my router several times but doesnt seem to help. Is my unit most likely defective? Will a 5 ghz router increase the speed?. Im also curious as to what speeds the rest of you are getting im using the speed test net application with a server within my city to test my rate.
Any help would be appreciated thanks guys !
Yesh 5GHZ will increase the speed, but it's reach is not as far. I use 5GHZ. Not sure of the copy speeds to be honest. I use a Netgear DGND3700.
If you did the test on Fire TV with a sideloaded browser using the sideloaded flash plugin,you will get poor results since Android flash kinda sucks because the lazy devs left it in bad shape before quitting on it entirely.
I get bad results most of the time,but when I ran the test on Puffin Browser (sideloaded) which has clouded desktop flash player,it returned with 26MB of my 30MB Charter provider.