04-29-2023 10:43 PM
Hi everyone,
I have a TUF GAMING X570-PRO WIFI II mobo and the onboard Wifi is very slow.
I am getting about half the speeds I get on my laptop.
I am using the latest driver.
Is there anything I can do? Or should I connect via ethernet?
Cheers
04-29-2023 11:01 PM - edited 04-29-2023 11:04 PM
Do you have your antenna connected to the board? The antenna is mandatory for good performance.
Ethernet is generally always the better choice if it's practical and reasonable to run a cable to your router. It's lower latency than WiFi, and gives consistent and predictable performance. WiFi is subject to attenuation, congestion, and interference; all of which compound together to significantly reduce the speed below the headline speed that the card & router could theoretically achieve. Your 2x2 AXE WiFi card on your motherboard has a headline speed of 2402 Mbps on 5 GHz with a 160MHz channel (or 1201 Mbps with a 80 MHz channel), but that requires perfect conditions and is only half-duplex (i.e. can't transmit and receive simultaneously). Your 2.5G Ethernet port is 2500 Mbps full duplex (i.e. it can theoretically do 2500+2500 RX+TX simultaneously) and should hit that speed every time (if there's something on the far end which can generate that much traffic).
04-29-2023 11:04 PM
The antenna is connected and on my desktop.
I am getting half the speeds I get on my (Intel chip) laptop (also on Wifi).
04-29-2023 11:22 PM
Depending on which "latest driver" you have, there may be a newer driver you could try. Your board's downloads page has 3.3.0.525, but you can get 3.3.0.771 from MoKiChU's [DRIVERS] AMD|MediaTek WiFi/Bluetooth page. It's possible you may already have that via Windows Update, I'm not certain what version it might offer for the RZ608 / MT7921K.
04-29-2023 11:27 PM
Thanks for your reply. I have the 3.3.0.771 driver already.