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Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed?

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Recently, I noticed there's some problem with my Wireless Driver. I had discussed with a computer technician (whom I call Engineer) he said that it will cost too much to replace Wireless driver. So he suggested me to use "receiver"(That's what he called), I have added a picture of "receiver" below.

mercusys receiver

He said that it is much more better than Wireless Driver. Even it cost less than main Wireless Driver. He also said that it's too powerful. The range is too much.

Can it increase the network speed? I meant if my WIFI downloading speed is 2 MBPS than my laptop can call 1.5 MBPS or close to 2 MBPS. So using the receiver can I call 2 MBPS?

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Someone told me that using receiver a 2 MBPS WIFI can reach upto 2.6 MBPS. I usually don't download too much things but recently I was downloading a 20 GB software using Microsoft Edge, the downloading speed had reached to 2.6 MBPS but when I used Internet Download Manager I noticed the downloading speed is 3.3 MBPS to 3.6 MBPS.

So my opinion is, receiver is much much more better than Ethernet. And toooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than usual Wireless card.

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"So my opinion is, receiver is much much more better than Ethernet" (6 comments)
"So my opinion is, receiver is much much more better than Ethernet"
elgonzo‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago

"So my opinion is, receiver is much much more better than Ethernet" I am really curious, how exactly do you think is this receiver better than Ethernet?

Anonymous‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

https://powerusers.codidact.com/uploads/JwT4tgD9HcvQAKE4r7D8Go9Y

That's why I think.. I was using Ethernet before buying receiver. And ethernet was slower than this. That's why I believe Receiver is better

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elgonzo‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago

Lol no. Absolutely no. Your screenshot is not showing ethernet speed. It's showing the speed of your internet connection (internet is not the same as ethernet -- the two words mean and describe two entirely different things). Even the ancient 100 Mb/s ethernet from 1995 is obviously faster than the 3.4 MB/s (~ 30 Mb/s) shown in your screenshot.

Anonymous‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

OK! I will add a screenshot of downloading speed while using Ethernet..

elgonzo‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago

That's pointless and nonsensical. That means nothing. Connect your Wifi to the same slow internet connection, and then make a point about Wifi not being faster/slower than ethernet in your case because the bottleneck is the speed of your internet connection, or due to differences in the two different routers/modems you are using...

Canina‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Perhaps more to the point, there's about a gazillion things that can influence download speed from a remote host on the Internet which are completely unrelated to how your computer is connected to the very next node over on the local network, especially when you aren't trying things out at the same time. Other than simply reasoning about the properties of each, there are ways to actually test and compare the speed of different network types, but it takes a fair bit more than just downloading something (even the same thing) repeatedly. Also, wireless by definition uses a shared resource (you're potentially sharing the radio spectrum with other people nearby, the behavior of which is out of your control), whereas wired connections tend to be more predictable.