Iphone 5 150Mb/s Macbook 43 Mb/s Why?

[Donfor39]

As the title states

Airport utilty IPhone 5 reports 150Mb/s Macbook 43Mb/s

Nestspot from Macbook confirmed my Airport Extreme is running over 5GHZ range

Is there a reason why the Iphone 5 gets the faster transfer rate?

My preference would be the Macbook gets the faster rate for CC Cloner

VM 30 MB broadband

 

[priitv8]

What S/N ratio do you get on Mac?
What MCS Index do you see in WiFi menu?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/11...ps_wifi_on_2011_thunderbolt_macbook_pro_imacs

 

[Donfor39]

What S/N ratio do you get on Mac?
What MCS Index do you see in WiFi menu?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/11...ps_wifi_on_2011_thunderbolt_macbook_pro_imacs

SNR Level -34 Signal66% Noise -90 Noise % 10%

Aiport utilty has a different screen?

Network Utility Link speed 144Mbits/s 0 errors

PHY Mode 8.0.2N
Channel 1 2.4ghz
RSSI -41
Transmit rate 59
MCS Index 6

 

[priitv8]

SNR Level -34 Signal66% Noise -90 Noise % 10%

Aiport utilty has a different screen?

Network Utility Link speed 144Mbits/s 0 errors

PHY Mode 8.0.2N
Channel 1 2.4ghz
RSSI -41
Transmit rate 59
MCS Index 6

2 things to investigate:
- why don't you get connection to 5GHz band. I seem to have had similar behaviour with the Mac - after a while it seemed to fall back to 2.4GHz band. I gave 5GHz a different SSID and now connect explicitly to 5GHz WLAN.
- try with different channels, both in 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. WiFi Diagnostic tool (or alternatively NetSpot) will show you channel allocation at your location.
http://www.wlanpros.com/wireless-diagnostics-utility-in-mac-os-x-10-8-4/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57487340-263/apple-enhances-wi-fi-diagnostics-in-mountain-lion/

 

[John Kotches]

5 GHz doesn't carry as well through walls as 2.4 GHz does. That could be a contributing factor.

Are these devices in the same location?

Other networks on the 2.4GHz band can slow throughput as well so see if you can optimize 2.4 GHz performance by selecting an uncluttered channel. There are WiFi analyzer tools (I use one on my Android phone) to help optimize performance.

 

[Donfor39]

Thanks for the helpful reply's

I've re run netspot which now shows macbook on 2.4ghz band ch1 where yesterday it shows the 5ghz band ch 100


I think this is a Virgin Media 'superhub' issue as it 'auto switches 2.4-5ghz channels.

so it's either a 'new superhub 2' or 'crawl' with 2.4ghz

Cheers