Hardware My Switch can't do more than 50mbps, is that supposed to happen?

[aykay55]

Hello GBATemp, several months ago I had my WiFi upgraded to 50mbps download/upload on both a 2.4 and 5GHz bands, the former would usually do 20mbps and the latter do the full 50, WiFi speeds were identical for all my devices, including my Switch. Recently I had it upgraded again to 100mbps, and all my devices are displaying speeds around that number - except my Switch. My Switch is never displays anything above 52 mbps to be exact, regardless of distance or time of day. My Switch is less than 10 feet from my router but even then I've brought it right next to it in handheld mode to make sure there was no interference. Is the adapter just so horrible or is something else wrong? Thanks.

 

[E1ite007]

I don't have a Nintendo Switch (I looked the thread in the recents tab on the main page)… but I guess it's because the WiFi card.
Possibly the WiFi card has some kind speed limit for uploading and downloading. Maybe is advertised to be around the 70mbps, but those must be flop numbers, and the limit goes down to 50mbps.

 

[JeepX87]

Same here - my Switch only download between 27 mbps, even I have 200 mbps internet plan and it was next to my router.

 

[mickthestud]

Hello GBATemp, several months ago I had my WiFi upgraded to 50mbps download/upload on both a 2.4 and 5GHz bands, the former would usually do 20mbps and the latter do the full 50, WiFi speeds were identical for all my devices, including my Switch. Recently I had it upgraded again to 100mbps, and all my devices are displaying speeds around that number - except my Switch. My Switch is never displays anything above 52 mbps to be exact, regardless of distance or time of day. My Switch is less than 10 feet from my router but even then I've brought it right next to it in handheld mode to make sure there was no interference. Is the adapter just so horrible or is something else wrong? Thanks.

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First world problems Australian nbn is lucky to reach 30 mb/s

 

[Bladexdsl]

First world problems Australian nbn is lucky to reach 30 mb/s

maybe out in the sticks but mine reaches 100 mb/s. telstra nbn 100

the switch has always had garbage online speeds and that's never going to change.

 

[yusuo]

It's the dns, change it to 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1 and the speeds should improve

 

[xs4all]

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First world problems Australian nbn is lucky to reach 30 mb/s

Not sure if you meant Mbps, because I'm on NBN fibre and I'm happy with 89Mbps down and 39Mbps up on my 100/40 Mbps plan.

 

[hippy dave]

It's the dns, change it to 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1 and the speeds should improve

DNS helps connection time, it doesn't help transfer speed.

 

[yusuo]

DNS helps connection time, it doesn't help transfer speed.

I understand that but it did for me, made the downloads alot quicker on my switch

 

[ryuku32]

DNS helps connection time, it doesn't help transfer speed.

Testing with 1.1.1.1, 4.2.2.2, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, and my isps resolvers, they all returned different nodes in the Akamai network. Therefore, it could help if there is high load on one's path.

50Mbps seems to be an application limitation. I can get "test internet" page to show over 100, but actual eShop downloads only go up to 50Mbps. I have 500Mbps connection.

 

[Clydefrosch]

You know we used to have 32kb connections, right?

 

[hippy dave]

You know we used to have 32kb connections, right?

You know we didn't used to have 15gigabyte games, right?

 

[fodder]

You know we didn't used to have 15gigabyte games, right?

lol 15gb is being very conservative nowadays

 

[akarolandc]

Capped at 50 mbps down...weird.

 

[aykay55]

I called Nintendo and the person just said "50mbps is more than enough". Didn't go into details.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Well, downloading on Switch from Nintendo's servers is going to be limited because it's on their end, just like how it is with the other companies. They have millions of people accessing their servers on a daily basis, so they limit the bandwidth of each consumer so they don't get overloaded. Even then, they still can, like on Christmas, simply because there's just too many people trying to connect.

 

[aykay55]

Well, downloading on Switch from Nintendo's servers is going to be limited because it's on their end, just like how it is with the other companies. They have millions of people accessing their servers on a daily basis, so they limit the bandwidth of each consumer so they don't get overloaded. Even then, they still can, like on Christmas, simply because there's just too many people trying to connect.

I was mainly talking about online play, the higher the speeds the better.

 

[DiscostewSM]

I was mainly talking about online play, the higher the speeds the better.

Latency is more important to online play than bandwidth, but that's going to be an issue between you and other players because most of it is P2P. Nintendo's servers, much like the rest, only really handle matchmaking.

 

[bigretromike]

Its all about how you have your wifi configured on router. Switch supports: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, so the best speed you will get when you setup AC (5GHz) wifi network on your router, and connect to that one. If you have configured it as N probably which aint real N (2 antenas etc). Try AC. But then again. You shouldn't worry about this much.

Also not that the console world use their own 'speed test' servers. So you can have 200/200 on your site, and then 10/10 on your switch. They aint the best (same goes to sony test servers).

 

[smf]

I can get "test internet" page to show over 100

That is on the switch right? I don't know how accurate that is, or what it is trying to measure.

I don't have broadband that quick and I don't download from eShop, but you may be hitting limits on their server, on the link between your ISP and eShop, a limit on your router or maybe a CPU or flash limit in the switch.

You need to be on 5ghz to get the best speed.