Topic: Something to help with Slow Downloads?

I dont know either.. But a cable can speed it up. I just tested it on my ps3. It downloaded at 2MB's wireless but 4-5 wired.

So in a few hours i will go to the store and buy a switch and i will re download the game and give my report to see if cable really doubles the download rate. (it could be that wii-U uses 6 year old wifi tech.

The simplest answer is usually the right one , so im going to hop on the its the servers fault for things going slow. When i download things on Steam, I start tieing up all the bandwidth because its going 5M/s . The only other thing it could possibly be is a Port issue in which case portforward.com

All I know is that all my gadgets download at the same pace. I was considering a LAN adapter myself, but I haven't heard concrete evidence that it improves anything all that drastically.

Latency is better, but speed is worse since it's USB and such.

when i've got a slow download going, i usually go do something else for a bit.

Actually the USB adapter is technically faster, I've tested it. Still I'm pretty damn sure that any bottleneck will be somewhere else. The LAN adapter won't help unless you've got a particularly bad wireless signal or if you're pushing local traffic. I have the LAN adapter but use wireless because it's good enough and there aren't enough USB ports on the back for it and my external HDD with Y-Cable.

@skywake
For sure. I have no lag on my connection, so I can't justify buying the USB LAN adapter. My Wii U is about 4 feet away from my router. That's the only reason why I would consider it, besides a possibly better connection.

Since I can't notice any lag on my end, there's no point for me to buy one unless I somehow get stuck with a modem by itself. My router is a modem combo maxed at 20mb/s potential speed, so I can't even go that much higher even in terms of internet, altogether.

Well, my connection is 70Mbit fibre and all ports are open.. Still it downloads super slow.