What is the difference between Wifi and Flow?

What is the difference between Wifi and Flow?

Wifi and throughput are two completely different values.

You can have low Wifi but excellent throughput, just as you can have excellent Wifi but a low throughput.

What is Wifi?


The term WiFi WiFiis the abbreviation of Wireless Fidelity. It designates a system of connection to Internet wireless. Internet access is through the transmission of radio waves. It also allows you to connect several equipment to each other (a printer to a computer for example).

You can use the WiFi WiFion computers, tablets PCs, some printers and some mobile phones, known as "WiFi".


What is flowing?


To simplify, it can be said that the internet debit designates the speed of your fixed internet connection(internet box) or your mobile connection (4G network). The faster the speed, the less time you take to download a file, update your apps, or display a website. It is also your internet flow that determines the quality of TV channels on your box and streaming videos.

To be more accurate, the flow refers to the quantity of information that can flow on your line at a time T. It is therefore measured by reporting the volume of data, expressed in bits, to the time required to transit to your devices. So we are talking about kb/s and now, more generally, in Megabits per second (Mb/s) with the generalization of broadband and very broadband. See in Gigabits per second (Gb/s) for ultra-fast connections via the fiber optic network. The following video illustrates quite simply the difference between a flow rate less than 1 Mbps and a flow rate of 1 Gb/s:


Although it is in English, we understand quite well the purpose and interest that an ultra-fast Internet connection can have to comfortably enjoy all the services based on its box. The quality, and in particular the speed of your Internet connection, conditions your internet experience day after day. And if your flow is bad, the consequences are now well known: web pages that take several seconds to display with each click, download photos in slow motion or empty os that take infinite time to load, even connections, slow and disjointed synchronization.

But what is a "good" debit?


A good flow today is around 100Mbps down and 25 Mbps up. (Multichannel fiber connection)

The average rate observed is approximately 10 Mbps down and 0-1 Mbps up in ADSL

This connection is not enough for optimal synchronization
Why is this connection insufficient?


The process of synchronization is very simple:

  1. Realize your state of play
  2. Sync your state of play (This is where you are stuck, the state-of-the-art synchronization sends data, so it uses the "Amount" connection. With a flow rate between 0 and 1 Mbps the synchronization time will be very long. Where to the feeling of synchronization "blocked" when it is not really.)
  3. Once your state of the location is synchronized, synchronize the other media (Here, the connection used will be "descending" being 10 Mbps it will be "sufficient", so the downward synchronization will be on average 10x faster than the rising).
How do I make my sync go faster? How do I get better synchronization?

  1. A fiber connection is the best solution for Startloc, but also for an efficient business environment.
  2. A 4G connection can be used when the connection is too bad, either by connecting your mobile or through a 4G key
  3. A VDSL connection is also a good solution, even if it is very low compared to the so-called "fibrated" connection, VDSL allows better performance than VDSL.
Optimal synchronization is therefore conditioned to a good connection.

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