Good idea. I will switch video over this evening and see how it compares.
The only thing on either network was the music I was streaming. Desktop was sleeping and the laptop was off.
ISP and Sound Quality
So last week I picked up T-Mobile's Wi-Fi and Mesh network along with my wife's new phone. Apparently, this is a new venture for T-Mobile. I thought I would give it a try and see how it works, as I am on Xfinity at the moment.
I was absolutely shocked at the improvement in sound quality with the T-Mobile setup. I have two subwoofers per side and I immediately overloaded the room with bass. That never happened before. I had to turn the level down on the crossover.
Streaming music from Tidal with Roon was clean, crisp, and sounding alive. By comparison, on Xfinity the sound was mushy and dull. It wasn't bad sound on Xfinity, but moving to T-Mobile was sure an eye opener. Interestingly, Xfinity just upgraded my modem a couple of months ago, too.
I checked the signal level at the BlueSound Node, but the levels were the same between the two ISP's.. But when I checked the data transfer, the T-Mobile had a 32% increase in speed over Xfinity.
The sound from both ISP's were on Wi-Fi. In the past, I did run a Ethernet 6e cable for a hard wire connection from the Xfinity modem to the Node but that didn't seem to make much of a difference, if any. I did the same yesterday with the T-Mobile but again, not much difference, if any. I didn't check the speed with the cable, I should do that just for the data point.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is all this just from the bandwidth speed increase? If so, I might have to go back to T-Mobile and ask for an increase!