WiFi speeds and WeTransfer

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Jeremy Glyn

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I send photographs to clients on a regular basis using Wetransfer.
According to a "Download Time Calculator" I should be able to send a Gig of images in about 23 minutes via my WiFi with a pretty constant up and download speed of 6mbps.
However, it usually takes between 4 and 6 hours.
What am I missing?
 
Are your clients on the same WiFi (ie local area) network? Or are they on the internet? Sounds like the bottleneck is your WAN (internet) connection, not the LAN. What sort of internet connection do you have?
 
My clients are on the internet and download in minutes what takes me hours to send. I have a wireless internet connection, billed as 4mbps. I have just run a speedtest and I'm currently getting 5mbps. HOWEVER, I just went to my Task Manager and my Wi-Fi performance is running at between 0.4 and 0.8mbps? (I'm currently running a large download.)
 
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Jeremy Glyn said:
My clients are on the internet and download in minutes what takes hours to send. I have a wireless internet connection billed as 4mbps. I have just run a speedtest and I'm currently getting 5mbps. HOWEVER, if I go to Task Manager, my Wi-Fi performance is running at between 0.4 and 0.8mbps? (I'm currently running a large download.)
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All this means nothing since you are uploading a file.
What your upload speed?
 
isie said:
All this means nothing since you are uploading a file.
What your upload speed?
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This. The problem we had was ADSL upload is only 512kb, max 1024kb. I decided to get fiber as the upload is 2Mb on a 4Mb line. But been able to upload at 3Mb. This and the stability makes it easier to upload on weTransfer.
 
An old router will easily do those speeds so the WiFi is not the bottleneck- it's definitely your internet connection speed.
 
UPDATE:

A "My Broadband" speed test shows a relatively constant 5Mbps from my wireless internet connection.
My Wi-Fi (via Task Manager (Wi-Fi performance)) was only around 0.5 mbps.

Any idea what's up?
 
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Jeremy Glyn said:
UPDATE:

A "My Broadband" speed test shows a relatively constant 5Mbps from my wireless internet connection.
My Wi-Fi (via Task Manager (Wi-Fi performance)) was only around 0.5 mbps.

Any idea what's up?
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Have you tried using Dropbox to see if it is faster?

Possibly WeTransfer is the problem.
 
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What does the upload speed show, also 5mbps?

And do a speedtest to a server in the USA as that is where the wetransfer servers are
 
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Also, depending on where you are looking, 0.6MB/s does equal 5mbps...

Task Manager: shows the number in bites per second.
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Resource monitor: shows in bytes per second, but it's also delayed...


Note that I am running windows 10.
 

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SharkBait said:
Also, depending on where you are looking, 0.6MB/s does equal 5mbps...

Task Manager: shows the number in bites per second.
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Resource monitor: shows in bytes per second, but it's also delayed...


Note that I am running windows 10.
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Task manager will show Mbps if you are doing Mbps transfers, and Kbps if you are only doing Kbps transfers...

So if he's is showing 0.5 he is only doing half a meg upload, not 5Mbps

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irBosOtter said:
Task manager will show Mbps if you are doing Mbps transfers, and Kbps if you are only doing Kbps transfers...

So if he's is showing 0.5 he is only doing half a meg upload, not 5Mbps

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I am aware of that, but I was trying to show something else, but it seems the forum is fscked. :confused:
This is what I see, but from your quote, it's not what you guys are seeing:
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Like I said, depending on where you are looking, the reading is either in mbps/kbps or MB/s or KB/s...
 
Yes depends on where he is looking, could also be he's local upload speed in SA is fine as per his upload speedtest but international upload speed might be slower
 
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