Hardware :: Internet Speed Through My Airport Express Slows Down About Half The Speed
Apr 10, 2009
I have a WDS local network at my house. I use a Airport Extreme in my main part of the house and a Airport Express for my back part of the house i.e. the backyard. Now every two weeks or so my internet speed through my Airport Express slows down about half the speed but when I am connected trough the Airport Extreme my speed is normal. I know this because I test my connection very often. Now when I want the Airport Express to get back up to speed I have to unplug, and plug it back in. Then after awhile it starts to slow down again in a time period of two weeks or so.
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Oct 2, 2010
I'm having friends stay with me for a few weeks and want to set up the AE to limit the speed of internet available so they don't stream video all day (I have a data cap)
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Mar 7, 2010
I'm using a new AirPort Express updated with the latest firmware and AirPort Utility and both my roommate and I have been banging our heads against the wall. Speed to the APE is 130 Mbit/sec and both of our computers are connected to the APE just fine.
This is what the ping looks like. Ping has started ...
PING google.navigation.opendns.com (208.69.32.231): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=155.129 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=151.575 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=154.526 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=154.267 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=155.645 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=153.226 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=153.340 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=153.381 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=155.097 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=152.302 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=10 ttl=53 time=156.201 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=11 ttl=53 time=153.732 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=12 ttl=53 time=156.210 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=13 ttl=53 time=155.551 ms
64 bytes from 208.69.32.231: icmp_seq=14 ttl=53 time=155.359 ms
--- google.navigation.opendns.com ping statistics ---
15 packets transmitted, 15 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 151.575/154.369/156.210/1.359 ms
When I did a speakeasy test, it turned out that I am getting exactly half of our allotted bandwidth. Is there a way to configure this APE to act more like a router that truly shares a connection rather than a splitter that's cutting it in half? Any help would be much appreciated as I'm getting download speeds of 7kb/s and it takes around 15 seconds to load google!!
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All the other wifi devices in my house (ipad, laptops) do not have this problem at all so it must be the imac and not the connection. I'm running the latest version of Snow Leopard 10.6.8
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I recently moved, and I transferred my comcast high-speed internet service. At my old residence, I used my airport express base station (802.11b/g) with my cable modem, and the internet was quite fast. At my new residence, I set up my network and the speed is quite slow. I initially attributed the problem to Comcast and spent more than an hour on the phone with them this morning. However, I discovered that when I plugged my MBP directly into the cable modem, the internet was blazing fast. So the problem seems to be with the Airport Express.
I'm thinking about just upgrading to an extreme, but I wanted to ask people in the forum to make sure there's not some obvious thing I'm missing so I don't waste my money. I don't really understand why my Airport Express would suddenly become very slow when it was working fine last week, but I don't know how else to explain this problem. I checked my speed using speedtest.net. It measured my download speed as 0.79 Mb/s when connected to airport, and approximately 15.5 Mb/s when connected directly to the cable modem. That's a nearly 20-fold difference!
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Aug 9, 2009
My current set up includes a cable modem to a Linksys wired router, to an Xbox 360, PS3 and Airport Express. This is the set up I have had for about three months. When downloading files or streaming videos the download speed rarely settles in more than 200 kb/s. My old place had a DSL model, which had a slower internet connection, but the airport express speeds (same set up) were much faster. I have tried directly wiring the computer to the router which unsurprising, resulted in much higher speeds. The things I can think it could be:
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2. Airport express just not up to streaming at height 802.11n speeds, although it is rated for them.
3. Attached to a slower port on the router.
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