@Freimmientis36 Ethernet cable is the solution.
- fastest connection to other network devices
- resistant to interference from external influences
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16 days later
Excuse me for making an observation.
Rightly the LAN cable connection is the most reliable, however I did the test on my TV Box 5 placed in a room next to the router and talking about connection speed it is much faster via WiFi with the Internet Box4 router than with the lan cable which is limited to 100Mbit.
To test this, just install the LAN speed test program on the TV Box.
No, not a wrong LAN cable, but the TV-Box 5 does not have a Gigabit LAN adapter, but a cheaper Fast Ethernet LAN adapter, which is completely sufficient for the maximum bandwidth requirement of a Swisscom TV-Box of approx. 20 Mbit/sec.
The decisive factor when connecting a TV box is not the maximum achievable bandwidth, which is never needed by the TV box, but the stability of the connection, and a LAN cable connection always has an advantage over a WLAN connection.
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Maybe I did not explain myself well, the two measurements I posted in photos taken from the TV screen (no PC was used) are related to my TV Box 5, the first photo with the connection of the TV Box to the LAN, while the second photo refers to the same TV Box connected with WiFi. The programme I installed on the TV Box to do the test is “Internet Speed Test”.
I repeat, I in no way want to prove that the WiFi connection is better than the LAN cable, I simply wanted to illustrate the fact that in WiFi the TV Box 5 achieves higher connection speeds.
Is it just me who has these results with my two TV Box 5s? I would be curious to know if you also have similar results with TV Box 5 and Internet Box 4 router with 10GBit Fibre.
I did the same test with the TV-Box 5 and practically the same results, but I still have a copper connection with 680/150 Mbit/s with the Internet-Box 5.
*Only upload with WLAN is lower because there is no fibre optic.
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So that there is no more guesswork here about the Swisscom TV boxes and their respective LAN and WLAN capabilities, here are the hardware features available for each box in the order of their release date:
- IP1400 (UHD box): Fast Ethernet with just under 100 Mbit/sec , WiFi 5 with net max. around 700 Mbit/sec
- IP2000 (Swisscom box): Gigabit Ethernet with net around 940 Mbit/sec, WiFi 5 with net max. around 700 Mbit/sec
- IP1800 (Swisscom Box 21): Fast Ethernet with just under 100 Mbit/sec, WiFi 5 with net max. around 700 Mbit/sec
- IP2300 (TV-Box 5): Fast Ethernet with just under 100 Mbit/sec, WiFi 6 with net max. around 850 Mbit/sec
What is clear with all LAN connections is that the Ethernet bandwidth is always limited by the slower LAN adapter of the two communication partners. This means that the speed of the Internet connection is irrelevant as long as it is greater than the performance of the Ethernet connection.
For all WLAN connections, it is mainly the distance between the two WLAN nodes that plays a role, as well as the smaller WiFi standard of the two nodes as a protocol limit. This means that a TV Box 5 with a WiFi 6-capable router will be able to achieve around 20% more WiFi bandwidth than all other Swisscom TV Boxes limited to WiFi 5.
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