iPhone WiFi extraordinarily slow?

[eicca]

My iPad on 13.6 tests at speeds over 200mbps down and up. My iPhone on 14.0 beta 7 barely hits 30mbps down and 7mbps up, often it is much much slower. Same network, same physical position in the room, etc. Already tried resetting network settings to no avail.

Is this an iOS 14 problem? Any additional diagnostics I can try?

 

[cmaier]

My iPad on 13.6 tests at speeds over 200mbps down and up. My iPhone on 14.0 beta 7 barely hits 30mbps down and 7mbps up, often it is much much slower. Same network, same physical position in the room, etc. Already tried resetting network settings to no avail.

Is this an iOS 14 problem? Any additional diagnostics I can try?

I’m seeing 444/34 On my iphone on 14.0b7. Assume you tried rebooting, making sure you are connected to the right mesh point, etc. Maybe reset network settings?

 

[TonyC28]

My iPhone 11 on PB7 suddenly won’t even connect to Wi-Fi. It’s saying that the password is wrong or that it’s unable to join the network.

 

[saudor]

Yeah i noticed that too. I only get 50mb-ish or something and old.reddit.com takes particularly forever to load (other sites are fine). The connection itself is 500+

 

[eicca]

I think I figured it out. The WiFi I use in my apartment has both 2.4ghz and 5ghz under one SSID. My iPad consistently connects to the 5ghz, but my phone always connects to 2.4. Is there a way to force a 5ghz connection?

 

[teeshot44]

I think I figured it out. The WiFi I use in my apartment has both 2.4ghz and 5ghz under one SSID. My iPad consistently connects to the 5ghz, but my phone always connects to 2.4. Is there a way to force a 5ghz connection?

Use different SSIDs. Turn off 2.4 on the router if you don’t want to use it anywhere or forget the 2.4 network on your phone.

 

[eicca]

Use different SSIDs. Turn off 2.4 on the router if you don’t want to use it anywhere or forget the 2.4 network on your phone.

I would if I had access to the router...

 

[teeshot44]

I would if I had access to the router...

I gotta ask. Why don’t you have access?

 

[eicca]

I gotta ask. Why don’t you have access?

It's a college apartment with provided WiFi. Management is in control.

But what I do have is physical access to the plugs on the router and an extra Netgear router of my own kicking around so I have an idea.

 

[aakshey]

I think I figured it out. The WiFi I use in my apartment has both 2.4ghz and 5ghz under one SSID. My iPad consistently connects to the 5ghz, but my phone always connects to 2.4. Is there a way to force a 5ghz connection?

This happens when your 5Ghz signal isn’t strong enough. Get another mesh node for that room. iPads have stronger antennaS than iPhones. Got nothing to do with iOS.

 

[eicca]

This happens when your 5Ghz signal isn’t strong enough. Get another mesh node for that room. iPads have stronger antennaS than iPhones. Got nothing to do with iOS.

Makes sense.

I hooked my Netgear router into the apartment Google internet box router thingy and set up my own 5GHz network. Spent a little time finding the best channel and I'm getting better speeds than the apartment network, on both iPad and iPhone. I'll just tuck this little guy away and enjoy my private speed access.

 

[aakshey]

Makes sense.

I hooked my Netgear router into the apartment Google internet box router thingy and set up my own 5GHz network. Spent a little time finding the best channel and I'm getting better speeds than the apartment network, on both iPad and iPhone. I'll just tuck this little guy away and enjoy my private speed access.

Yes

 

[Christoffee]

I’ve had this as an intermittent fault for years on various WiFi networks. I’ve never been able to figure it out. Only on my 6S, never on any other devices. I figured it was a hardware issue, but it’s never been bad enough to do anything about.

More recently the WiFi was stopping entirely. Switching the WiFi on and off would fix it. A clean install fixed it. I’m on iOS 13. Never tried 14.