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how does your 2011 MBP wifi compare to your previous computer?

  • Better

    Votes: 3 33.3%
  • Same

    Votes: 5 55.6%
  • Worse

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Total voters
    9

mulo

macrumors 68020
Original poster
Aug 22, 2010
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Behind you
So I just got my new MBP yesterday and i Immediately noticed that the wifi performance is a lot worse then on my 2010 MBP. In fact it's terrible!

Sitting in my room, 4 feet form the router, i'm getting a transmit rate of 52-78MBit/s on my 2010 MBP I am getting 270-300MBit/s

In the living room, 50 feet from my router, I'm getting 2-20MBit/s on my 2010 MBP I am getting 150-230MBit/s

What, you don't think transmit rates in the 100+ range matter?
well yes it does, firstly I'm paying for 40/40 MBit/s internet, secondly i stream a lot of data from my NAS, well i used to, its impossible to do with this transmit rate.

Anyway, to the point of this thread.
Are you getting worse wifi performance on your 2011 MBP? if so how much slower is it?
Have you found any solutions? if so what are they?
 
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