WIFI slow when bliuetooth is on

[liamread2000]

Hello,

I have a HP laptop with a Realtek RTL8723BE 802.11 bgn Wi-Fi Adapter which includes Bluetooth.

All the drivers are up to date however when Bluetooth is turned on my internet speed is about 0.40mb/s and when its off I get around 50mb/s.

Is there anyway to fix it?

Thanks in advance

 

[Paul NZ]

Looks like this is a common prob when BT is turned on. Your wifi gets chopped in half

Try changing the channel for the wireless in the router

If both are on 2.4, there maybe interference / they maybe conflicting

 

[liamread2000]

Okay thanks for your such quick response!!

HP said they would take it to replace the adapter however I don't feel comfortable, I feel a bit better knowing this is a common issue well the WIFI card only supports 2.4 ghz.

 

[Paul NZ]

If you do a search in Google, you're not the only one with this prob

It can happen in Windows, Linux, Surface pros, androids etc. Probably everything that uses BT and wireless

And both wifi and BT do use 2.4

 

[liamread2000]

Yeah, I tried Windows 7 and Ubuntu and they both had the issue. Do you think I should take the laptop to HP for them to replace the adapter as if its common I may not be just with this card?

Thanks again and sorry I'm a pain.

 

[Paul NZ]

If you've got a dual band modem / router, if you could, I would replace the adapter with a dual band adapter that supports BT.

This prob will probably disappear. Once you connect to the 5 ghz connection

 

[liamread2000]

Yeah, HP have limited what adapters can be put into the laptop.

But however all the other laptops I've owned has never had Bluetooth so I don't really think I'd use Bluetooth often anyway.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Paul NZ]

No probs. Yup I found that out when I had an HP laptop.

I found a modded BIOS that fixed that lol. It did work, I could chuck any card in, and it worked

 

[liamread2000]

Mines a HP Probook 450 g2.

It all works fine its just the Bluetooth.

I have never really used Bluetooth anyway its just nice to know its there>

Thanks