Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Take your measurement by connecting your computer directly to the modem, not a router. It may then read the advertised speed.


Not necessarily true but I am not going to argue it. I have tested here with computer on cat5 vs wireless, downloading a file on all 6 computers at the same time, and my speeds were within 2% on both, so that whole thing about a home router being a bottleneck isn't, and has never been, true. Unless you are still using WEP for security, which limits speeds, but everybody on earth is WPA these days. Internet providers teach their techs to tell customers that if you have 100mb down and you use 4 computers through a router that each of them gets 1/4th of that speed, and that is simply not true. Every IP is assigned to a socket that is a peer of the other sockets. That's kind of what peer to peer means.

Between cameras that run 24/7, 6 PCs that stay on 24/7, 2 Roku devices, tables, cell phones, wireless printer, etc... I use 22 IPs in my house. My performance NEVER waivers based on demand. Here's my speed test with all those IPs moving data.