If I take some devices off my Wi-Fi network, will it let my Wi-Fi run faster?
I took my iPhone off. And it seems to be moving a bit faster. Or is this a coincidence?
I don't think so. At least, when my pc is on a Wi-Fi, when I turn off mobile Wi-Fi, it is much faster. Same with high school - Morning = Fast Wi-Fi, Middle in day = Slow as hell.
One sentence: Turning off your mobile Wi-Fi will make it faster.
Most likely. All that depends on how many internet pages you have up on all the devices in use of your Wi-Fi network. Wireless is gonna be slower than non wireless (connected with wiring) if you have less pages up on that specific device (like a laptop) then it will go faster. Sometimes the less files you have on your desktop the more internet and other document speed you'll have!
hope that helped!
Yes it does!
That depends on a few things.
- The bandwidth of your ISP connection. This is a major factor in WLAN performance where the internet is the primary destination. If you've only got a 1 Mb connection than you're going to eat that up pretty quick, even with one device.
- Your wireless device. Not all wireless devices are the same. If you're using an older 802.11b wireless access point (WAP) than you're only connecting at 11Mbps half duplex. Essentially that means your bandwidth is about 5.5 Mbps but it is actually slower than that if you take overhead into consideration.
- How many devices are on your WLAN. You've already hinted that removing a device off your network seems to speed things up. This is a real possibility. The less devices on a network can increase your performance but it's not so black and white as that. It depends on what each device is doing on the network. If most devices are connecting to the internet surfing, downloading, and streaming than your ISP connection is probably going to play more of a factor in performance because that tends (but is not always the case) to be where traffic hits a bottleneck on a home network. But if the devices are connecting to local resources on within your network for say streaming video's/music, playing games, etc. Than your wireless device could then become the bottleneck.
All in all I'd say to assess your network and understand what is being done on it. When you know that you'll have a better idea of how and why your network speeds up/slows down in many situations.
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