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    WiFi speed limited to around 100Mb?

    Discussion in 'LG' started by slainte0317, Apr 8, 2020.

  1. slainte0317

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    I had not noticed this before, but my wifi speed seems to be limited to 100Mb. It started around 60-70, with some tweaking got it to max out 99-102Mb. I find this odd, as my LG V40 cellphone is able to get 270Mb on the same AP from the same physical location as the laptop. I did try updating the drivers to no avail.

    Sorry, totally blanked on spec - 2019 LG Gram 17, 17Z990-R.AAS9U1 (Costco) model, Intel AC 9560. The limit is speed test (multiple sites) - Currently connected to the 5GHz antenna. Link speed increases to 300 Mbps
     
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    What laptop model?
    What WiFi card model?
    Is that connection speed, or a speedtest?
    Go to task manager, performance tab, Wifi graphic, right click on the graphic and select Show network details, what does it say about the link speed?
     
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    Sorry, totally spaced on that. Included the info in the original post. Let me know if you can think of anything.
     
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    And does the link speed keeps at 300Mbps during a speed test?

    Have you already tried changing the settings to prefer 2.4Ghz and see if its more stable/faster?
     
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    Yep, it hopped on the 2.4 first. It does go from 270 to 300 during the speed test, and maintains that until complete. Something I need to look at is VHT160 settings.
     
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    If its connecting at 270-300Mbps, try another server on the speedtest, or try using dslreports instead.
     
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    I'll give it a shot. I tried google's, same result. I can use the android app, same spectrum servers in columbus, same AP in the house (5GHz as well) and get 220Mbps on my cell wifi.
     
    slainte0317, Apr 13, 2020
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    Open task manager and see CPU usage per core during the test, but it would be pretty strange for a modern CPU to choke with a speed test at 100Mbs.
     
    senso, Apr 13, 2020
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