I setup the new 5G home internet gateway, have a 3-bar “solid” signal and when I connected my iPhone11 it’s getting a speed test of around 222 Mbps download speeds. The laptop I use for work also connected to the same gateway (5Ghz band) runs a speed test of 52-146 Mbps varying range.
The laptop has 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6. Any ideas why the disparity and how to address the laptop speed?
Thanks in advance
Update:
The speed is not consistent for my Mac. In general, it’s a lot slower than the phone, but sometimes I could get matching speed with the phone.
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Update:
Hi, I rebooted the device and now I can see the speed is also good for my Mac.
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Exactly the same here. I got 5 bars. Phone gets like 450Mbps, but Mac barely reaches 100Mbps. I disabled the wifi 2.4GHz signal to make sure the devices all use 5GHz wifi.
I had the same problem. Netgear Router connected to T-Mobile router. Everything that connected directly to the TMobile router was blazing fast (@450mbs) but anything that connected to the netgear router was @130mbs. After going through various tests it turns out that the Netgear has a QOS (Quality of Service) setting that wass the problem. The QoS setting favors interactive traffic … but the speedtest app is a bulk transfer type of trafic and was getting throttled. Turned QoS off and desktop/Wifi/phone now all get comparable speeds.
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