Bear with me here on account of limited IT vocabulary. My issue is became apparent while streaming Plex via Wi-Fi from BSA's account onto a Roku Ultra device. I decided to hardwire it but had to use a extra long HDMI cable that is oddly fat, like 1/2" thick. Not only did it not help but a connection check on the device showed 80 or 90 MBPS while in the past I remembered it being over 200 MBPS.
I went back to my standard Wi-Fi connection using recommended length BJC HDMI cables and only then realized the HDMI cables wouldn't affect the speeds the device was seeing. My connection test on the Roku Ultra still showed numbers in the 80 and 90 MBPS range. This morning I ran a Ookla Speed test on my laptop and got close to 50 and 50 download and upload results. The problem is that I remember those numbers being over 300 MBPS in the past. So I ran the test again and got numbers close to 250 upload and download. That might be because the laptop had recently been turned on but I thought it had been on long enough. It was a matter of a few minutes. A third speedtest showed numbers close to 250 MBPS again.
It's Verizon Fios connected to the house. I'm wondering what could cause the variation in speeds. What tipped me off is the Plex streams buffering and switching to lower and lower resolutions. Last night it was 82 MBPS and right now (5 AM-ish) it's 227 MBPS. There can be a couple of phones connected via Wi-Fi and one TV hardwired to the router plus a laptop connected via Wi-Fi. It didn't matter that my Roku Ultra was connected via Wi-Fi verses being hardwired.
Oh, and I had unplugged everything and plugged it back in after waiting a minute or so trying to get things to stream Bluey of all things. I'm looking to at least understand if not actually fix the problem. To get around the issue last night I set the stream to a fixed speed on the Roku Ultra to like 12 or 20 MBPS versus Automatic which would eventually degrade to something like 300 KBPS and look lousy.
BTW, once I got it going the 5 year old niece watching Bluey had a pretty content little smile on her face. This was not only Bluey but Bluey with a pretty decent 2.1 audio system hooked up to it and it was virtually uninterrupted, entire seasons of Bluey. As you can imagine, I f^%&ing hate Bluey.
