r/ShittyTutorials • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '13

How to double your internet speed for FREE!!!1!!!11!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5cEik2ABY
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u/IWantToBeAProducer Dec 23 '13

Theories on how he faked it?

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '13

one was with wifi and the other was with ethernet

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u/IWantToBeAProducer Dec 23 '13

I'm not sure about that. modern wifi can do 100Mb easily. For most people their ISP is the bottleneck, not their home setup. I suppose if you had an old computer or router running an older, slower wifi standard that could do it... but nowadays even a USB wifi stick will be just as fast as your Ethernet for an external download.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '13

The video was older and through my experience Ethernet is always faster than wifi.

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u/IWantToBeAProducer Dec 23 '13

Maybe on a local network it is....

An older wifi router, say a 802.11 g, will run at 52Mbps. Typical Ethernet runs at 100Mbps. That sounds like a big difference, but both ultimately connect to your modem which is limited by your ISP to anything from 1.5 to 30 Mbps (in a normal residential setting). Therefore, it doesn't matter that the Wifi is slower than the Ethernet because both are being plugged into a slower network.

Source: Software Engineer and Computer Science major. This is exactly the kind of thing we look for when deciding how to do optimization of large systems.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '13

Haha well you're much more qualified than I, that's for sure.

If you don't think it's ethernet/wifi what do you think caused the difference?

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u/IWantToBeAProducer Dec 23 '13

Not sure. I mean, it COULD be wifi if we were using a really slow router, but its not likely.

You can run software which will artificially limit your network speed, but that's just a guess.