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

Hello all

Thank you for your continued patience and feedback.  The out of band update is available, please see This Thread for further details.

Keep the feedback coming.

Best regards

Hello Aarodynamics,

On Wednesday, July 16, we will issue our second July update for Surface Pro 3 Wi-Fi. Collectively, these updates address the great majority of customer feedback around Wi-Fi consistency. Specifically, these updates address:

• Limited Connectivity after exiting Connected Standby
• Limited Connectivity after exiting Hibernate
• Limited Connectivity during active use

If you are experiencing Wi-Fi connection inconsistency, we strongly recommend that you download and install this update; we have been using this update and have seen an improved experience. But we are not done. We are still very focused on two remaining areas:

• Wi-Fi isn’t available in the Settings charm or under the Connections setting. We are seeing a few reports of Wi-Fi being unavailable, which requires a reboot to resolve.  We don’t have an immediate fix, but we continue to work on this and will have an update as soon as possible.
• Dropped connections or reduced throughput to certain access points. As mentioned above, the July 16 firmware update will address the majority of Limited Connectivity scenarios. However, there are still fringe scenarios where Limited Connectivity errors are present or network throughput is lower than expected, depending on the network configuration. We anticipate multiple improvements over time.
  • Note: When measuring your network throughput, the most accurate and reliable indicator of network speed is through a third-party speed test like using Speedtest.net, not necessarily through the local network speed indicator reported in Network Connections settings.

We will keep you informed as we continue to make your Surface Pro 3 experience better and better – http://blog.surface.com/2014/04/windows-update-makes-surface-better/.

Thanks for posting in the forums, and reach out to us again with any further questions.

Best Wishes,

Zack_T

Thanks Zack, I have shared your statement in other forum all about Surface.

http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/statement-from-ms.9761/

Hello Aarodynamics,

On Wednesday, July 16, we will issue our second July update for Surface Pro 3 Wi-Fi. Collectively, these updates address the great majority of customer feedback around Wi-Fi consistency. Specifically, these updates address:

• Limited Connectivity after exiting Connected Standby
• Limited Connectivity after exiting Hibernate
• Limited Connectivity during active use

If you are experiencing Wi-Fi connection inconsistency, we strongly recommend that you download and install this update; we have been using this update and have seen an improved experience. But we are not done. We are still very focused on two remaining areas:

• Wi-Fi isn’t available in the Settings charm or under the Connections setting. We are seeing a few reports of Wi-Fi being unavailable, which requires a reboot to resolve.  We don’t have an immediate fix, but we continue to work on this and will have an update as soon as possible.
• Dropped connections or reduced throughput to certain access points. As mentioned above, the July 16 firmware update will address the majority of Limited Connectivity scenarios. However, there are still fringe scenarios where Limited Connectivity errors are present or network throughput is lower than expected, depending on the network configuration. We anticipate multiple improvements over time.
  • Note: When measuring your network throughput, the most accurate and reliable indicator of network speed is through a third-party speed test like using Speedtest.net, not necessarily through the local network speed indicator reported in Network Connections settings.

We will keep you informed as we continue to make your Surface Pro 3 experience better and better – http://blog.surface.com/2014/04/windows-update-makes-surface-better/.

Thanks for posting in the forums, and reach out to us again with any further questions.

Best Wishes,

Zack_T

I tested over the weekend and the Wi-Fi seems to be a bit more stable.  Instead of losing the Wi-Fi connection every hour before, now it only loses the connection 2-3 times per day.  Still far from acceptable but it is somewhat manageable now.  I am hoping that the July 16th updates will finally fix these Wi-Fi issues though.

I am only connecting to the "N" WiFi SSID of my router for now.  Once the next updates are released I will switch to the AC band and see if they have solved the problems for good.  

Battery life seems to have been improved as well.

Still no firmware update here...

Finally got the firmware update yesterday.

No hard numbers but my battery life seems better.