Hardware Looks like the Switch's networking is capped at 50mb/s, both wired and wireless.

[Issac]

How do you test the speed on your Switch then?
All I noticed was that the firmware update and the Zelda update both only took 10 or 20 seconds each to download. Maybe those updates were small, but I think it went really fast.

 

[Dystopiq]

I've done extensive speedtests over and over, using both my LAN adapter from my Wii U (Which works, save your $29.99) using a 3 foot Ethernet cable, as well as the 5.0GHz Wi-Fi from two feet away, line-of-sight. I could never break 50 mb/s. If any of you do, would you mind sharing how? I pay $90/mo for 230mb/s with a Gigabit router, so that isn't an issue.

I'd like to hear from you in the polls.

50 megabits or 50 megabytes? On the Ethernet adapter the speed test read 75Mbps for me

 

[Jayro]

50 megabits or 50 megabytes? On the Ethernet adapter the speed test read 75Mbps for me

Mega bits (mb), as I never confuse the two.

 

[tbb043]

Maybe they downthrottled how much each system can use so the whole network wouldnt' t go down in the launch window, like these networks tend to around Christmas. If so, that'd be a good thing.

Is there really much to do on a switch online now anyway?

 

[Dystopiq]

Mega bits (mb), as I never confuse the two.

Megabits is Mbps/Mb for clarification.

 

[Shadowfied]

Maybe they downthrottled how much each system can use so the whole network wouldnt' t go down in the launch window, like these networks tend to around Christmas. If so, that'd be a good thing.

Is there really much to do on a switch online now anyway?

That's the idea that I was hoping no one but me thought of cause it's so fucking absurdly moronic. Even if that was the case (surely they don't let SUCH morons run shit at Nintendo?........................right?) why not just limit the downloads, instead of forcing the entire console...?

 

[Yil]

Wait, bit or byte?

 

[ned]

lol at you guys I pay $38 for 8Mbps which barely reaches 6 irl.
I don't even have option of fibre till next year, I live in the only part of england that doesn't use BT.

 

[Alkéryn]

LOL. That's really hard to reach 50 MB/s, that would need an Internet speed of 400 Mbps, which almost no one has. You are just bitching about nothing.

He said mb not MB
so 50mb = 50/8 MB which is about 6MB/s (6 mega octet / seconde)

 

[Mr. Wizard]

I'm un-watching this thread, it's become vacuous.

 

[Bladexdsl]

how are you sob's even getting 50 i can't get past 15!

 

[Yil]

We're talking 50 Mb, not MB.
It does not even reach 50 Mb, that's the point.
Also, gigabit is not even rare anymore.

Gigabit home internet, not internal networking. This means the switch isn't going for in-home streaming. But it could update to a higher bandwidth in the future and Nvidia might do something underhanded to Nintendo.

 

[Sonansune]

the title confused me for a sec...

if you mean mbps, just say it...
sometimes, ppl don't use upper case in MB, Mb, mb

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

my ISP capped is at 50MBPS But sometimes go higher, but that just download times.

Maybe you can try these settings.

• Go to network settings and select manual instead of auto.
• insert required information for ip address, gateway (Depends on router, check manual for instructions.)
• Go to next set of info which is DNS, set primary DNS to 8.8.8.8 and secondary DNS to 8.8.4.4 (It will look like this 008.008.008.008) cause is how the system register is, most common wifi uses 3 digits between each period)
• Set mtu to 1473)
• Test your internet speed, wired or wifi (On wifi, make sure you least have 5GHZ AC compatible router.)
• Do not add proxy unless you use one.

Just to be honest, these settings i found in youtube videos on how to get better online connections on ps4 systems, I been using them on all my systems ever since and i may not notice any actual improvements but i noticed better connections that don't have as many problems, if you wish anyone wish to try and comment, i would appreciate this test.

My router is trend.net AC 1750 dual band and my IPS has 50MBPS download speeds so mine is fairly good for anything as long as is wired or have AC, for B/G/N 802.11 It has more issues, including 3DS, WiI U and anything else not 5AC.

 

[linuxares]

Checking my Switch right now. It's 144/144 to my Router.

Maybe you guys shouldn't use an browser that doesn't really exist yet?

 

[AlexanderLS]

50Mbps is not a horrible speed to throttle the switch to.
For a long time when I had a DOCSIS 2 modem that is all I could get.
In my current rural area 40Mbps is the maximum available to us.

There have been years when I lived in a camper trailer, during which I was using Virgin Mobile's throttled unlimited internet. Also, when I was a kid there were numerous years when I had only dialup.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

whats the difference LOL

I managed to tell someone this before MB is different than mb. (Yes the capital letters make a difference.) MB is megabyte mb is megabit.

Is the same case with classic retro games in the 1990s where commercial used to advertise games with this marketing strategy of Donkey kong country on snes is 32mb 32 Mega bit just mean the rom file is is 4 MB = Mega bites.

Super street fighter 2 on genesis is 40 Megs = Megabits, the rom file is 5MB Mega bites. Pier solar and the great architects is a 64 Megabit game, the rom file is 8Mega bites. Is important to know,

• lower case = bits kilobit/megabit/gigabit
• upper case/Capital = bytes kilobyte/megabytes/gigabytes

Even though the number you see is much larger in bits, it gets converted into bytes after a certain point to make reading it easier for more common use. A byte is simply a easier way to read bits. At least is not blocks like nintendo used to have.

 

[Bladexdsl]

well i have a 100 mb/s connection and only manage to reach 15 mb/s on the switch

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How do you test the speed on your Switch then?

switch settings menu, internet, test connection.

 

[linuxares]

It's shooting on all cylinders over the Wifi for sure, but I'm not getting any good results to their server (where ever that might be in the world.) Then again 30/30 is fine for now.

 

[grossaffe]

I managed to tell someone this before MB is different than mb. (Yes the capital letters make a difference.) MB is megabyte mb is megabit.

Well actually the 'M' should always be capitalized as that stands for 'Mega' as opposed to 'm' which stands for 'milli'. However, as bits are quanta, there is no such thing as a 'millibit' thus 'mb' is incorrect and only further confuses things because it just shows that the person is not using any capitalization and begs the question of whether the 'b' should actually be a 'B'.