• Couple of Qs

    Anyone know why my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) has significantly slower speeds than other devices. Just ran a bunch of speed tests (in varying orders and tried last week too) and my Mac is about 30mps and phone and work laptop are 400. When I get nearer the router it's 80 vs 900.

    Router is a Linksys MX5600 from Community fibre on channels 6 (2.4GHz) and 44 (5GHz).
    I plugged in my Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR to test (need to set this up but not yet worked out where to put it or how to get the ethernet there, also debating picking up another Linksys node but not checked price yet) but no different.

    Research suggested turning off bluetooth and setting channel to 44 (which it was already set to from a radio scan) but no avail.

  • Older, slower chip. 2015 Macbook is 802.11ac, a new iPhone for comparison is 802.11ax

    bit of googling suggests you might realistically expect about 200Mbps from the old Macbook, and anything upto 2Gbps from the iPhone (if you had a net connection that was that quick, and router)

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