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
    2014-06-21T20:54:08+00:00

    So I got my sp3 yesterday and it was blazing fast on wifi. I did all the new updates and after doing so every web page was loading slow or timing out.

    I did some searching and there a bunch of people with the exact same problem "Other forum"

    I cant use my 5ghz network which is my wireless ac. I have a netgear nighthawk and the only way i can use this sp3 is by using the 2.6ghz now.

    Please fix this. I'm shaking my head that first update screwed something up.... i already went through nightmares with my sp2 so this isnt a good start :(

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-18T00:58:08+00:00

    So I re-installed September Marvell drivers cause I couldn't take it anymore. My download speed from local server jumped from 2.5Mbs to 19Mbs. I tested downloading a 6Gb file. It was consistent 18.8 rate. Substantial difference. Can be better though...

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-07-03T16:24:38+00:00

    I have the same problem on 802.11n networks.  Speeds are woefully slow and sometime wireless drops off conpletely and the SP3 doesn't "see" any network adapters on board necessitating a re-boot.

    Another problem, sometimes it doesn't wake up from hibernate after sitting overnight and other times it wont wake up from sleep or atleast the screen doesn't come back.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-22T22:22:52+00:00

    After I completed the mentioned steps I could see (in Device Manager) that the three items I had previously uninstalled were back. The O/S used the local version of those drivers to install them.

    As for Windows Updates, I didn't see anything right away. If you have it check for new updates you will likely see the important update from 6/19 reappear for installation. Again, don't install this. If you do you will be right back where you started.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-21T12:43:58+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?

    I have read at least one more user reporting the same issue with the AC connection and it seems that everything started after the  firmware update.

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