Better phone speed test than laptop

[Azzip]

Hello,

I have recently run into an odd situation. I have a NEXQ6GO with a EM7411 modem. I am able to connect and have OK speeds (about what I expect). When I compared the speed test on my phone to that on my laptop there was a significant difference.

My Galaxy S9 in airplane mode connected to the WIFI saw about 20/3 and the laptop saw 2/1 connected to the same WIFI less than 2 minutes apart. I figure that there is something in the router setup I might be missing. Outside of setting passwords and changing the SSID and TTL to 65, there are no changes.

Any ideas what to look at from this point would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Didneywhorl]

Thats interesting. Does the laptop always run this slow on wifi tests?

I doubt its the router if the phone pulls better wifi speeds.

What does the pc get via ethernet?

[Azzip]

The laptop is brand new, though it could be a configuration issue on that end. It varies I did manage to get those numbers on the laptop last night before going 2/1 or even 0.5/3. I managed to get my hands on another device and it matches the cell results of 20/3, more or less, so I will try a couple of driver updates.
I see a bit of variance in speed, I might try some external antenna pointed to the tower once I get a ground wire to the roof.

Thanks for the response!

[Dr-BroadBand]

What model of laptop do you have?
What OS are you using?

Can you use your phone hotspot to do a test with the Wi-Fi of your laptop??

What seed do you get with using an Ethernet cable??

Would Bring your laptop to another network with Wi-Fi like Starbucks do a test

[Didneywhorl]

You will see variances over short time periods, that may vary by quite a lot. You have to use long term speed sampling to get an idea of averages throughout the day and night.

[Dr-BroadBand]

Also take note what server is being used for your speed test. Take good notes!
I have seen my speed be cut in half from one speed test to another.
Took me a while to see that the slower test was using a different server.

Since this a LAN problem using a tool called Iperf3 maybe better.
See link for details.

Iperf3 Throughput Test
https://youtu.be/5UOlo8NLeiA

[derekjsmith]

Sounds like your TTL may not be set right with your NEXQ60G router. Most cell providers uses the TTL to determine if the device connected is via a hotspot and as such will throttle. I had a similar issue, had done a firmware upgrade with full reset and forgot to re-setup my TTL on the router in the firewall/custom rules section. The cell provider was throttling and I was getting 2/1 vs 15/3. Depending on your provider the TTL maybe 64, 65, 66 or 117. You may need to experiment.

My custom rules setting:

TTL=64
INTERFACE=wwan0
ip6tables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o $INTERFACE -j HL --hl-set $TTL
ip6tables -t mangle -I PREROUTING -i $INTERFACE -j HL --hl-set $TTL
iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o $INTERFACE -j TTL --ttl-set $TTL
iptables -t mangle -I PREROUTING -i $INTERFACE -j TTL --ttl-set $TTL