{"id":1049,"date":"2023-03-16T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2023-03-16T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T21:37:20","slug":"wifi-upload-speeds-when-did-they-get-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"WiFi Upload Speeds. When did they get so bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I noticed my Zoom calls on work Surface Pro were getting consistently bad. I did a Speedtest from my personal laptop and discovered that whilst the download speed was good at 60 Mbps, the upload was rubbish at 0.5 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m no stranger to this problem but one of the advantages of BT Broadband over Virgin was\/is that it had better upload speeds and I&#8217;m pretty certain I got 5-10 Mbps when the system was new (a few years ago now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took my booster disc out of the equation. Doesn&#8217;t seem to do anything anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did a test from the router itself and it reported 20 Mbps uplink bandwidth. Bit of a discrepancy there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next test was to eliminate WiFi. Lo and behold, a Speedtest from a wired connection straigh into the hub gives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired-1024x790.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired-1024x790.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired-389x300.png 389w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UploadWired.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Upload Speedtest results on wired connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas on WiFi, same place same time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi-1024x797.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi-1024x797.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi-386x300.png 386w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Upload-Wifi.png 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Upload Speedtest results on WiFi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consistently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I need to go and find out if it&#8217;s a generic problem or if there&#8217;s anything I can do about it as a result of my setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed my Zoom calls on work Surface Pro were getting consistently bad. I did a Speedtest from my personal laptop and discovered that whilst the download speed was good at 60 Mbps, the upload was rubbish at 0.5 Mbps. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=1049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}