Ethernet is still superior to wifi

Ookla, the developers of speedtest.net, have published a new one a report Which shows that wifi is still generally much slower than ethernet. From the millions of measurement results, it appears that those connecting via cable are getting more than twice as fast.

The vast majority of those taking speed tests on speedtest.net connect via Wifi 4 or 5 – 44 and 44.2 percent respectively – but in some markets operators were quicker to provide customers with routers with Wifi 6 and 6E. In Sweden, for example, 26.9 percent already have Wifi 6 and only 23.4 percent are still using the Wifi 4 standard. China ranks first with 42.6 percent already on Wifi 6.

In these markets, the gap between wifi and ethernet is also slightly smaller. In Sweden, 26.9 percent today have Wi-Fi 6, and the average Wi-Fi user gets 41.2 percent as fast as the average user connected to an Ethernet network.

The numbers show that the actual average speed that users get out wirelessly isn’t close to Wi-Fi’s theoretical limit. Not even in the US, where many suffer from slow broadband connections and Wi-Fi would likely not have been an obstacle.

Please share your measurement results and how to dial in the thread.