wifi speed

[yogeewan]

There definitely seems to be a drop in the wifi speed on Monterey for me compared to Big Sur. Anyone else facing a similar drop in wifi speed?

Big Sur Speed

Monterey speed (iCloud relay is turned off)

 

[casperes1996]

Nope, still just over 200Mbps. No change

 

[fisherking]

no change here either. probably other things in play; have you tried rebooting your modem/router? (or your mac, for that matter)...

(& check that you're on your 'best' network, if you have dual bands). my 2.4 network just gave my 85mbps, but my 5g gives me 209.69.

 

[yogeewan]

All reboots done still no change. Will investigate a bit more and circle back. It is on 5 ghz too.

 

[fisherking]

All reboots done still no change. Will investigate a bit more and circle back. It is on 5 ghz too.

you sure it's the mac and not your ISP? and how are you comparing OSes?

 

[yogeewan]

you sure it's the mac and not your ISP? and how are you comparing OSes?

Consistently slower at every test compared to Big Sur. have tried it at all locations and will smc and nvram resets as well

 

[fisherking]

both macs used to show the same speed? you could try resetting the nvram, or...

just wondering what the bottleneck is. again, my speeds between big sur and monterey are consistent. hope you sort it out (maybe others here will have some suggestions).

also, see how the next beta affects this

 

[Fishrrman]

casperes --

What command in terminal invokes the speedtest?
I did a quick search but not finding anything...

 

[casperes1996]

casperes --

What command in terminal invokes the speedtest?
I did a quick search but not finding anything...

It's speediest.net's program. It's not built into the OS. You can install it with
brew install speedtest-cli
assuming you have home-brew. After that you can just run
speedtest

 

[Prorege1]

Consistently slower at every test compared to Big Sur. have tried it at all locations and will smc and nvram resets as well

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There definitely seems to be a drop in the wifi speed on Monterey for me compared to Big Sur. Anyone else facing a similar drop in wifi speed?

Big Sur Speed



Monterey speed (iCloud relay is turned off)

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Had similar issues/reduced WiFi speed on my MBP M1 & top tuned Ubiquiti WiFi 6 network, couldn't find the culprit.

Finally found out that in my MacBook WiFi settings the DNS servers had somehow changed, I set it back to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - it's now back to the expected speed 😀

Good luck.

 

[Monotremata]

It's speediest.net's program. It's not built into the OS. You can install it with
brew install speedtest-cli
assuming you have home-brew. After that you can just run
speedtest

Or you can just install it from the App Store.

 

[brsilb]

Wow, same thing in Big Sur early betas, now it is the standard. Hopefully fixed for you in future betas

 

[casperes1996]

Or you can just install it from the App Store.

That's not quite the same. That gets you an app bundle. Installing through home-brew just gets you the CLI tool. Smaller, more convenient and managed by home-brew. Perfect.

 

[Marshall73]

I went back to Big Sur because of this. Except my M1 Air wouldn’t use data rates beyond 300. Back on big Sur it was going full speed again. Tried loads of stuff including resetting and clearing out the WiFi configs but no joy.

I used a WiFi scanner app which shows all data rates in use and available. This showed that on Monterey my connection was not supporting faster data rates.

 

[fisherking]

That's not quite the same. That gets you an app bundle. Installing through home-brew just gets you the CLI tool. Smaller, more convenient and managed by home-brew. Perfect.

not sure that a 44.6mb app is going to wreak havoc on storage space... but, whatever works

 

[casperes1996]

not sure that a 44.6mb app is going to wreak havoc on storage space... but, whatever works

It doesn't really matter all that much. But I live in the Terminal a lot so the biggest factor is that it's genuinely more convenient for me to just stay in the Terminal than to go to the App Store, download it there, then open an app. Easier to just
brew install speedtest-cli
speedtest

Smaller size is a bonus. Not a very significant one at these sizes, but a bonus

 

[AllergyDoc]

Bumping this up... I've always had excellent WiFi speed on my iMac, until Beta 4. We pay for 400 mbps but get ~450 on my Macs and iOS devices when they're fairly close to the router. In Beta 4 my iMac would race up to 425, then slowly drop to, typically, 60–75. I reported it. So far in Beta 5 it's back to its fast normal. Speedtest gives me 485 and Fast gives me 210, and Xfinity online 380.

 

[vince22]

Bumping this up... I've always had excellent WiFi speed on my iMac, until Beta 4. We pay for 400 mbps but get ~450 on my Macs and iOS devices when they're fairly close to the router. In Beta 4 my iMac would race up to 425, then slowly drop to, typically, 60–75. I reported it. So far in Beta 5 it's back to its fast normal. Speedtest gives me 485 and Fast gives me 210, and Xfinity online 380.

same here, downgraded from beta4 to beta3 for the same reason, beta5 fixed this issue. thanks apple.

 

[dborja]

Installed the 12.0.1 release and I'm actually seeing increased WiFi speed. We have 1Gbps service and I typically saw 400Mbps on my 2017 iMac (because of distance, walls, etc). After the update, I'm seeing about 550Mbps. 👍

 

[sdp77]

For me the problem was the Private Relay. It messed up my Orbi router. I was only getting 80 mbs. After I turned Private Relay off, my speed went back to 450.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

For me the problem was the Private Relay. It messed up my Orbi router. I was only getting 80 mbs. After I turned Private Relay off, my speed went back to 450.

Running a speed test with private relay on will affect your results, Apple even discusses this. However, it shouldn't affect your actual throughout.

Private Relay and network speed tests​

Private Relay uses a single, secure connection to maintain privacy and performance. This design may impact how throughput is reflected in network speed tests that typically open several simultaneous connections to deliver the highest possible result. While some speed test measurements may appear lower when Private Relay is enabled, your actual browsing experience remains fast and private.

 

[sdp77]

I wish it were true. My first sign that something was wrong was, when watching TV, my AppleTV started buffering. That's when I started checking to see what is wrong. Once I turned Private Relay Off and reset the router, things came back to normal.

 

[AllergyDoc]

Nothing makes a difference in testing for me. I turn Private Relay off, restart, nothing. Turn it back on, nothing—rinse and repeat. Difficult to get the results over 300 now instead of the usual 425+.

 

[nealh]

This is infuriating to me. I have the new 16in M1Pro 16gb with my home WiFiGoogle Mesh) I can’t get over 200Mbps on my Frontier 500/500 fiber. My iPhone 12ProMax can get 500 Mbps and 15in 2013 MacBook Pro get 250-500Mbps downloads when tested by ookla

I have made sure. Private relay is off. Changed DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. No difference.

With the stupid usb-c issues this has me ver close to returning the new MacBook Pro. Grrr

 

[dizmonk]

I went back to Big Sur because of this. Except my M1 Air wouldn’t use data rates beyond 300. Back on big Sur it was going full speed again. Tried loads of stuff including resetting and clearing out the WiFi configs but no joy.

I used a WiFi scanner app which shows all data rates in use and available. This showed that on Monterey my connection was not supporting faster data rates.

Which app did you use and how did you go back to Big Sur?... I've definitely seen a drop of about 20% speed since upgrading.