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For people with slow wifi, in my experience the problem is often when too many neighbours are on the same wifi channel. Wireless Diagnostics is your friend, and remember that the channels are not perfectly separated. A neighbour on your channel +/- a few can still impact your network negatively!
 
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The responsiveness score is what your after which appears to be just cropped off the screenshot provided.
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He’s got 400Mbps down and 40Mbps up. Depending on what he’s doing, and M3 may be no faster than an M1 (or Intel) if it’s all network-dependent.
 
That's why my stratergy is to buy a Macbook Pro (and not spec it out completely) and use the leftover funds to buy a Windows gaming laptop if/when needed. Though I don't game a lot, but do want to try Baldur's Gate 3 at some point.

I just like the dual laptop plan. As someone else mentioned -- different tools for different jobs.
 
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He’s got 400Mbps down and 40Mbps up. Depending on what he’s doing, and M3 may be no faster than an M1 (or Intel) if it’s all network-dependent.
Thanks, although the responsiveness score is still missing which tends to be a much better measure of how fast a network feels than peak speeds (see Apple’s support document: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/101942).
 
Thanks all I have these responsive ness scores. I am just trying to make sure nothing is wrong with this new laptop. But certainly maybe the wifi.
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For people with slow wifi, in my experience the problem is often when too many neighbours are on the same wifi channel. Wireless Diagnostics is your friend, and remember that the channels are not perfectly separated. A neighbour on your channel +/- a few can still impact your network negatively!
Yes, if I remember correctly, there’s not sufficient separation to avoid co-channel interference with WiFi unless you’re 3+ channels apart from other nearby routers. And it’s just a fact of life that adjacent channel (and even co-channel) interference is simply unavoidable in particularly dense housing environments because there just aren’t enough channels, especially on the 2.4GHz band.
 
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