Surface Pro 3 Slow WiFi - 72Mbps Max (driver)

Question

I have an Apple Airport Extreme 802.11ac wireless router at home and am only connecting at a max of speed of 72Mbps (usually closer to 11Mbps if I'm more than 20 feet away from the WAP). I have two other 802.11ac laptops at home (Samsung AB9+ and rMBP) and my two other computers are connecting up at 800Mbps+ and pulling down the same on Internet speed tests; yes, I have real GigE connectivity. Is anyone else having these problems?

Answer 1

Zach,

We have a surface pro 4 , seems to have the same issue. Can you direct me to a link or instructions to increase dual band speed?

Paul

Answer 2

For me the issue was the routers used channel!

I had the exact same 144mbit/sec issue, fixed at that rate, or some 130.

Now I checked my router and saw that on my used channel 6, much other WiFi routers were working. then i switched to channel 4, instant got 500mbit/sec on battery usage. So I did a sleep state, woke up the surface, still full 500+ mbit/sec

So if anyone is still running into this issue, first update to latest drivers, then change your WiFi channel in the router.

Answer 3

That fixed the problem, thank you! I downloaded the drivers from the link, installed, rebooted, and my speedtest jumped to 120mpbs. I incorrectly assumed that doing a Windows Update was giving me all the latest drivers.