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

Anonymous
2014-06-21T05:48:07+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-31T03:25:34+00:00

    OCTOBER 28 UPDATE DOESN'T FIX WIFI ISSUES!

    IS THIS THING GONNA BE EVER FIXED?

    STILL GET LIMITED CONNECTION! ENOUGH ALREADY, FIX THE DAMN THING!

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  2. Barb Bowman 80,805 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-10-31T10:07:17+00:00

    On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:01:15 +0000, DextsarII wrote:

    >>So I can definitely say that the latest update made things worse....At my house on the router I have enabled Dual band operation with Band Steering feature (Band Steering detects clients capable of 5 GHz operation and steers them to that frequency, while leaving 2.4 GHz available for legacy clients.) which was working out good and I was getting the expected 300mbs.

    So, I'm guessing Band Steering requires that the SSID name for both the 2.4 and

    5 GHz networks to be the same, if it is anything like the smart wifi that

    Netgear offers on some of their routers. The Surface Pro 3 has had a problem

    (that NO other device has) when SSID names are the same.

    As an experiment, if your turn off this advanced feature and use separate SSID

    names and connect specifically to the 5 GHz SSID, does the issue occur?

    I DO understand that the Band Steering feature should work, but to help diagnose

    the issue, can you test this out please?

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    Please mark as answered if this answers your question

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-02T12:30:57+00:00

    I agree.  the one big issue is theconnectivity.  I am now down to 54 mbps. 

    please fix this thing

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-11-03T15:42:34+00:00

    Nope.. still not working.

    I get 5Ghz if I'm plugged in, but that's a failed solution

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-11-04T02:19:40+00:00

    This update has still not helped with the Bluetooth interference.  

    I've recently noticed that when I don't have a full signal and enable a bluetooth mouse, my wireless link speed decreases to 1Mbps.    For example, a 26Mbps link with the Mouse turned off turns into a 1Mbps link when the mouse is turned on.

    When I have a strong signal it typically gets cut in half 144 (mouse off) turns into 72 when I turn the mouse on.

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