Today I noticed something strange. Actually, I noticed it before but only looked at in detail today.
Usually, in the old Windows days... I would hoover my mouse over my wifi connection icon in the system tray. A yellow pop-up would tell me at which speed my wifi connector was connected. I could also see it in Task Manager with network connections.
But in Windows 8 you cannot easily find this information! Only network strength is shown (with the bars). But 5 bars on a 1Mb connected 300Mb wifi adapter will do squad with your 60Mb internet!
Strangely enough, not many people seem to ask this question. All I could find was this article:
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about39944.html . Only solution given is going to the command prompt and typing... :s
cmd.exe
netsh wlan show all
Receive rate (Mbps) : 144
Transmit rate (Mbps) : 144
Signal : 63%
But that answer is WRONG*. These numbers only seem to say what your adapter is capable off. When I double checked with WirelessMon Professional (torrent gave me version 4.0.1007) showed my actual speed was 36Mbit/s... Not 54 (what is should be with me).
Maybe one should do calculus? In my case 79% of 54Mb? :|
Does anyone know of a (free) windows tool that shows the windows 8 wireless connection speed? Something quick. Something that does NOT involve client/server based solutions ;p (QUOTE: 'The best (free) way to test network speed/throughput is using "iPerf" or "jPerf"')
For now, I'll stay with the official "solution"...
http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/GetArticle.aspx?docid=810e021f443a43779294b05bd6b5bedc_3967.xml&pid=80&converted=0#win8... Karma!
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