Download Wifi on my HP Win 10 laptop peaks at only 1.4Mbps

[Advaitom]

Hi All,

I have a HP 15-ab030TX Pavilion (Notebook) with a Realtek RTL8723BE 802.11 bgn Wi-Fi Adapter. The wifi download speeds never goes above 1.4 Mbps (mega bits, not bytes). I looked at the wifi adapter properties in Device Manager and they appear OK.

Any way to break thru this 1.4Mbps barrier? I'm on cable internet which I know is very fast. I also have the same 1.4Mbps peak when I take my pc to other homes that also have fast cable internet. I'm able to view Netflix totally fine on my home entertainment system.

What other details you need to diagnose this?

I googled this problem but was not able to find any helpful links.

Thanks,

 

[thejackal85]

I'm assuming the download speed is much higher than 1.4mbps on other devices on your network, yes? Do you get the same speed if you plug a physical internet cable in?

 

[Advaitom]

I'm assuming the download speed is much higher than 1.4mbps on other devices on your network, yes? Do you get the same speed if you plug a physical internet cable in?

OK, I partially solved the problem. On a hunch I uninstalled VirtualBox 5.04 and my max wifi download speed immediately went from 1.4Mbps to 3.8Mbps. Nice. 2.5 times faster. Could be that I didn't have VB configured properly, but I wasn't using it anyway so I just got rid of it.

3.8Mbps is nice but is that the fastest I can expect from a b/g/n adapter? I'll take my pc to another location and see if that makes a difference. Also, if I get a USB wifi adapter I'll post here if that makes a difference. Thanks,

 

[thejackal85]

That isn't the fastest you can get, no. There are other adapters out there that are now USB3.0 compatible that provide speeds much faster than that.

Glad it's working!

 

[Advaitom]

That isn't the fastest you can get, no. There are other adapters out there that are now USB3.0 compatible that provide speeds much faster than that.

Glad it's working!

I called the ISP (Comcast) and they said our data plan is 4Mbits/sec max download which which matches what I'm seeing. 4Mbits/sec is also good enough for my parents (I'm just visiting here for a while). I'll test it again when I get to another location. I have a feeling uninstalling VirtualBox 5.04 fixed the problem. Thanks,