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bm99's avatar
bm99
Joining in
19 days ago

Pods speed

Hey all, so have 125 volted to 250mb

When doing speedtest near router get nearabout 260-290 but when checking downstairs max i get is about 75ish. Have 3 pods, 1 upstairs and 2 downstairs and just now when checking on the vm connect app 2 pods are showing fair and rebooting or anything doesnt make them better.

I do have a cable running from the router to a switch but have not wired the pods in, even though i could wire 1 x pod hard wired to the router, but not sure if this would help

Anything else to try plz guys

Thanks

9 Replies

    • Alex_RM's avatar
      Alex_RM
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      17 days ago

      Hi bm99,

      Thanks for posting, are you wanting to check the connection of your Pods or the Hub?

      You can find some help regarding the Pods here

      Any problems with your hub you can run through diagnostics here 

      Alex_Rm

      • bm99's avatar
        bm99
        Joining in
        14 days ago

        connection of the pods i have made another thread about this if you can respond to that if easer

  • fronty's avatar
    fronty
    On our wavelength
    19 days ago

    If you are connected via a pod, it will always be slower than connecting to the main hub. In the same way that wifi speeds get slower the further you are away from the hub, the pods also get slower the further away they are from the hub. The pods also operate at half-speed because wifi is half-duplex technology. It's not possible to receive and transmit at the same time, and the pods create another "hop" in the wifi network. When it receives a packet from the hub, it then has to stop what it's doing and once it's received it, it has to transmit it to your client. Similarly when your client replies to the pod, it has to receive it then has to transmit that onto the hub - it can't receive and transmit at the same time because the wifi frequency is already being used to receive the data. All this takes time hence why you will only ever get 1/2 speed maximum, and if the pods are located further away from the hub they won't be running at max speed anyway. So I'd say that 75mpbs is pretty good. Pods provide better coverage not speed.

    If you can hardwire the pods they will run a lot quicker so it's definitely worth doing that if you can.

    • bm99's avatar
      bm99
      Joining in
      13 days ago

      Thing is i asked about having 1 or 2 pods hard wired as i do have a wire running from the router downstairs which goes into a switch first then i can take 1 from switch out to at least 1 pod but they said it needs to be configued and not reccomended 

  • Roger_Gooner's avatar
    Roger_Gooner
    Alessandro Volta
    13 days ago

    Who said configuration is needed?

    You are getting poor performance because you don't have wired backhaul, so connect your pods by Ethernet cables to the switch or hub.

    • bm99's avatar
      bm99
      Joining in
      13 days ago

      Is there any point connecting the nearest pod to the router via a wire? Or moving it closer to the router than connecting with a wire?

      Downstairs in a cupboard is where i have a switch connected to the router and have a spare cat6, so for that i can move the pod which is directly opposite into the same cupboard and connect via that spare cable which should help with the speed right?

      So potentially i can hard wire 2 pods the 3rd (also downstairs) will have to remain fully wireless

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta
    3 hours ago

    Connecting a VM Pod via a network cable looks like a way to create a network loop.  

    Has anyone tried this and confirmed that it does work and does, or does not result in flooding your LAN with spurious traffic ?