topic Speed of wifi in Broadband

Speed of wifi

Joshredway — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:52:13 GMT

Hi there,

Trying to download a game at the moment and my download speed is only at 130mbps, it should be faster than this as far as know with the package we got.

thanks,

Josh

Re: Speed of wifi

TimmyBGood — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:56:13 GMT

@Joshredway

130Mbs on a wireless connection may be entirely reasonable: all WiFi is zero Mbs on the other side of a few walls.

Re: Speed of wifi

Joshredway — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:05:37 GMT

Okay if I got an cat6 cable would this speed things up?

thanks

Re: Speed of wifi

TimmyBGood — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:13:54 GMT

@Joshredway

That should deliver the speed which is arriving at the Hub.

Note that the connection may also be throttled by the download server itself.

Re: Speed of wifi

Giggsy1977 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:11:24 GMT

What speed package are you on? Cat 6 cable (or any decent cable) is always more reliable than WiFi.

Re: Speed of wifi

Joshredway — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:14:19 GMT

As far as I know 900mbps

Re: Speed of wifi

Giggsy1977 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:20:48 GMT

You'll struggle to get that over WiFi for sure! I would grab a cat 5e which will do 1gb plus and is more flexible than a cat cable. I would check the spec of the ethernet port on the device you're connecting the router to. Televisions are 100mbps so WiFi would be faster (or you can have a USB adaptor to get full speed). A console is likely to have a 1gbps port so cable would be the way to go.