Nope.. still not working.
I get 5Ghz if I'm plugged in, but that's a failed solution
Surface Pro 3 Slow WiFi - 72Mbps Max (driver)
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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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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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Barb Bowman 80,805 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2014-10-31T10:07:17+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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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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Anonymous
2014-10-30T23:14:01+00:00 Agreed, but first they need to make sure it actually works so the card is reliable 100% of the time, before the 10/28 update it was 99% reliable finally! and now we are back to square one.