Low WiFi speed

[Bjorn_Nordin]

Greetings!

I am using an EU model and have some questions about the internet speed, when using my home WiFi on the 5Ghz band.

On my old phone, I am getting around 300mbit/s in download, compared with my new G6 which provide a top speed around 200mbit/s.

Its a bit odd that my Motorola style/pure gets higher download speed, then what my new shiny precious gets.

I saw in a another forum, that Samsung s8 had the same problem, and a fix was on the way, so I wonder if the G6 have the same issue?

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[Eric Rhodes1]

I'd be interested to hear an answer before I buy.

 

[TylerLV76]

Try and change the 5ghz channel on your router to channel 36 and run the test again. Ive had to do that on a few of my Android phones.

 

[Bjorn_Nordin]

I will try that,thanks!

On a sidenote. The phone did performed very well picking up signals on 2.4ghz at work, where it is concrete walls and the Motorola really had to struggle with poor reception.

 

[Bjorn_Nordin]

Changing to channel 36 did not help for me.

The download speed still differs between 80 to 100mbit/s. Uploads are the same on both phones.

I have a subscription that will grant me 250/100Mbit/s, so its not bad to get around 200mbit/s in download, its just that i do not understand the differens. It bugs me.

 

[TylerLV76]

Interesting. I don't have access to anything higher than 100mbps so I can't help test anything higher. I wonder if somehow the chip is capped around 200? Can that even be done?

 

[Bjorn_Nordin]

I have sent a question to support. I guess its just a wait and see issue for now.