Not sure what's going on here. My son and I have identical Lenovo Yoga 7i/Windows 11 laptops. My son noticed that he was getting poor download speeds, so we set up the laptops side by side on the same 5GHz network. Using fast.com on Edge, mine will get 450Mbps while his gets 60-70Mbps. I've checked drivers (reinstalled his), UEFI/Bios settings, network adapter settings, power/performance profiles -- all are the same between the 2 laptops.
I have a spare TPLink USB WiFi adapter, so I plugged that in for each laptop, and turned off the internal WiFi adapter. Both laptops got 230MBps from fast.com.
Other observations:
Same results with Edge, Chrome, and Firefox. All extensions off for Edge, same results.
The wireless network properties shows:
Link speed (Receive/Transmit) 1021/961 (Mbps)
When I set up a 1GB file on our Synology NAS and had his machine copy it to a local folder in File Manager over wifi, I got 400+ Mbps.
When connected to ethernet, fast.com on Edge gives 600Mbps
No QoS or parental controls set on router. His laptop does the same thing on other networks, so already pretty sure it's not my router.
No VPN, no proxy on his laptop.
It feels like download speed over http is capped for the internal adapter on his machine, but I don't know how or why that would be.
Any ideas or things to check?
Thanks in advance.
I have a spare TPLink USB WiFi adapter, so I plugged that in for each laptop, and turned off the internal WiFi adapter. Both laptops got 230MBps from fast.com.
Other observations:
Same results with Edge, Chrome, and Firefox. All extensions off for Edge, same results.
The wireless network properties shows:
Link speed (Receive/Transmit) 1021/961 (Mbps)
When I set up a 1GB file on our Synology NAS and had his machine copy it to a local folder in File Manager over wifi, I got 400+ Mbps.
When connected to ethernet, fast.com on Edge gives 600Mbps
No QoS or parental controls set on router. His laptop does the same thing on other networks, so already pretty sure it's not my router.
No VPN, no proxy on his laptop.
It feels like download speed over http is capped for the internal adapter on his machine, but I don't know how or why that would be.
Any ideas or things to check?
Thanks in advance.
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