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Wifi on Windows 4 TIMES SLOWER than on Linux!

SkyFire69

i got a 100 mbps fiber connection recently

It works flawlessly on every device except my 2 laptops while using windows with the same Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174A wifi card.

I have a pop os(ubuntu distro) dual boot on one of those laptops and on pop os i easily get 110-120 mbps up and down while downloading something using speedtest

However on windows on both laptops i am only able to get around 25 Mbps or so. I have tried

1) Reseting everything network related on both laptops (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/internet-download-speed-is-slow-on-only-one-device/65528449-efc9-4582-8d70-4220b43e0a6c)
2) Changing the wireless mode on both laptops (https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/550011)

3) Perform a clean boot on both laptops (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows)
4) Uninstalling, disbaling, enabling updating the wifi card drivers on both laptops
However nothing has worked
NOTE:-
1) I am using 5 GHz on both laptops and on ubuntu and windows
2) Both the laptop and router support AC Wifi so have a lot of extra bandwidth to work with

ALSO: The local file transfer speeds are abysmal like i am getting 16-17 mbps on doing that

 
 
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Are you using the mode 12 (a/b/g/n/ac)? Is the Dynamic MIMO Power Saving option disabled? Are you testing while charging or on the battery? What is the link throughput reported by windows? You can see that in the respective network adapter in the old control panel or looking at the network properties in the settings app.

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