I am paying for 1.5Gbps but only get 90mbps max?
I am paying for 1.5Gbps but only get 90mbps max?
If you have two laptops with the same wifi card, they should perform just as well. When you check the connection status, it might show transmit and receive speeds, but those are actually just how the data is encoded, not real speed differences. Do these numbers differ between your two laptops?
So when I look at the network adapter status from both devices at the same time, it goes up and down a lot like 866mbps or 252 mbps or even 40 mbps. It never stays steady. When I run another speed test on both computers side by side, this machine where I am writing gets about 60 mbps, while the other one is at around 200 to 220 mbps.
So here are the numbers explained: 866 usually means you want a channel around 80MHz with 2x2 MIMO and a strong signal to use QAM256. I don't see the values like 252 or 40 listed right now. If you are on Wi-Fi 6, maybe it's somewhere on the far right side of this chart. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...nK...ingle=true There isn't much you can do here. You might try forcing a setting if your computer has that option, but most times you can only change it on the router itself. Usually, both the router and the PC try to find the highest speed they can handle together. The only thing I can think of is that one of the PCs is getting less signal strength for some reason.
Thanks for helping me out! I'm trying something new with my Bell Home Hub 3000. Where should I start? Here is what I tried: Reset all my network settings. Uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled them, and went back to an older version of drivers. I also changed the wireless channel and adjusted the network adapter settings to match the recommendations on the box.
This happens if everything on your gadgets does exactly the same thing, so it's likely just your router or your Windows software that's causing trouble. When two identical Wi-Fi cards show up with big performance gaps at the same spot, I'm guessing you swapped out an old laptop for this brand new wifi6e one unless the old computer is less than a year old. This can be tricky if it's on a laptop because it's much harder to swap out PCIE cards in a desktop machine just to test things out. My guess is that digging through all the settings, drivers, and other stuff on both computers might show up the difference for you.
Oops! I made a mistake before. My old laptop had an Intel 6AX201, and my new one has an Intel 6EAx210. At first, I thought the numbers were the same, but looking closer, they are actually two different cards.
There is another thing about the 201 that uses cnvio, where the chipset helps part of the wifi work on it while the 210 has all the features on the board. It shouldn't really matter at all. Even though you can't swap cards because you are using wifi5, it doesn't make a big difference. If you were using wifi6 they would be the same too since the only real difference between wifi6 and wifi6e is that wifi6e can use the 6g radio band. All I can think of is they run different drivers. Maybe check the intel site to see how the drivers compare and find out which one you have loaded.
I'm going to try installing this driver again. The new file is called 22.190.0.4. That's the last driver I saw on Intel's website before. My computer was running version 22.180.0, which came with it originally. When I compared that old version to the new one, there wasn't really any difference. Should I try going back even further?