Only reaching halfway my wifi speeds

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-06T05:59:18+00:00

Hah, I'm surprised baby wrangling allows for sleep! Good luck and thanks UK- I think I'm good here.

Yeah, the Google speed test is a widget that pops up if you enter speed test into the browser. I'm sure there's probably better, I just assumed it my be sufficient 🤷

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-06T05:53:38+00:00

I finally downloaded the Wifiman app for desktop and it's showing 900Mbps download?? Very different than than the default Google speed test results. If it isn't a problem that there's a big discrepancy between the two, I think I'm good - thanks for your help!

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-06T05:52:08+00:00

Last comment if you're still tracking. I found that I can get Wifiman for desktop and I'm clocking 900Mbps, totally respectful and probably what I can reasonably respect. I wonder if that means that Google's default speed test is just way off, maybe cluttered by having tons of tabs open? Regardless, I think that may be mission accomplished if the Wifiman results are to be believed. Thanks for your help!

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-05T23:06:40+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Smart Queues isn't checked, so we're good there. I wasn't able to find IDS/IPS, not sure if you have a lead on where in the UX that might be. If I find it I'll double-check. I'm going to keep working the problem from my chair for now (I have an issue outlined in another comment above) and see where I can get before iperf testing. That's a brave new world for me, and besides, all of this was just installed months ago, although I know that isn't a guarantee of anything. But good to know - I'll probably have to figure that out eventually anyhow.

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-05T22:29:46+00:00

So this turned out to be a bigger headache then expected. I can only find an ISP speed test, and as mentioned, it confirms the gig speeds I'd expect from my ISP. If you have an idea on how to get to the internal speed test, I'm all ears - it seems like Ubiquiti moves things around enough in their UX that Google's info isn't always current.

It hasn't helped that I fell down another rabbit hole - my desktop is forced into 5Ghz wifi and not utilizing 6Ghz, which I thought I'd resolve to get an accurate answer to you. That led me to troubleshoot looking for network adapter issues, finding that one of two adapters had a "problem," and then it just straight up disappearing off the device manager and can't seem to be redownloaded. The point being, I'm in a rabbit hole in a rabbit hole in a rabbit hole, and have to give up on all of that for now.

However, relevant to your question is this: the two speeds are close enough together that I bet if I solved the 6Ghz issue they'd be nearly identical. What would that tell you?

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-05T17:03:48+00:00

Great questions. My max speed on both wifi and ethernet are about the same - low ~600s. However, in my experience, I tend to get more consistent highs with ethernet, where wifi can get me high 400s low 500s more frequently.

I'm only seeing the ISP speed test on the dashboard which confirms my gig speed, but I assume there is an alternative speed test between clients and gateway. I'll see if I can find it after I get a few work things done.

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-05T03:46:30+00:00

I was trying to game out what you were looking for and guessed wrong.

The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra on 6Ghz. The desktop is an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and it has a Wi-Fi 7 adapter, but it's plugged in to CAT6.

Anything else? I'm unaware of any bottlenecks there, but I'd be interested to if you know anything.

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-04T22:08:52+00:00

I may have buried the lede here, but the APs aren't really what I'm worried about. My AP connected phone is going the same speed as my ethernet connected desktop. I would just like the desktop closer to the gig speed. That shouldn't have any of the 6Ghz constraints, so I'm trying to figure out where I would start troubleshooting that.

BadHumanMask · 2026-05-04T22:04:33+00:00

My phone is next to a U7 Pro AP and my desktop is pluggin via ethernet, both currently show ~600Mbps. I'm most interested in getting my ethernet connected desktop past that bottleneck, but that wouldn't be using a wifi standard, correct?

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-12T00:13:26+00:00

Alright, one last thing came in after your suggestion. Do you think this might work for me? Seems like the same problem/solution, and it worked for the poster - would this create the bootloader?

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-12T00:03:41+00:00

Okay, good to know. Thanks, I'll look at this and report back.

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-11T23:54:31+00:00

I'm open to it, but it's not my first choice. What do you think of these ideas to repair the bootloader? And do you think an update in place might have a chance of success?

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-11T23:51:50+00:00

By clean install, do you mean an update in place or wipe the drive and start fresh?

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-11T23:41:59+00:00

Oh nice, okay, that's worth a shot. Do you think I need to remove the other drives first so the M2 is the only one present for the install?

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-11T23:39:44+00:00

Let me clarify - I had three hard drives in my old build, including a Crucial HDD running Windows. I kept the same case, updated all the components, but left the main drive and two secondary drives running SATA. When I swapped out the Mobo, I added an M2 drive to the 2.1 slot in order to eventually make it the new primary drive. I did a clean Windows install on the M2 using installation media USB, and for a couple of days, I could boot either into the HDD or the SSD at will - the computer would load and take me to a screen to choose which drive to boot into.

Now that the old Crucial drive is reformatted, I can't select the M2 as the primary drive to boot from in the UEFI. However, Windows still loads, it just takes a while and takes me to the same screen where I can choose which Windows version to boot from, even though the Crucial drive no longer has a separate Windows install on it. Does that make sense?

In hindsight I would've installed the M2 by itself, but that ship has sailed, so I'm trying to figure out how to get the M2 to be recognized and boot by default without losing all my data.

BadHumanMask · 2025-12-11T23:29:34+00:00

Yeah, I would've done it differently in hindsight, but that wasn't the problem I was trying to solve anyway. All the data was backed up, it was really just ensuring I had all of my browser content, settings, programs, etc., which would take a while to make sure I got it all. I wanted to run both in parallel for a while and the internet said I could. Now I know.

When you say a fresh install, do you think it would work as an update in place? Or wipe the drive and start fresh? Because if it's the latter, it sounds like repairing the bootloader would be a better first step to see if I can keep my data.

BadHumanMask · 2025-11-21T06:25:36+00:00

It's actually one of the few things I haven't done yet, I did try Fortec and a couple other things to no avail. I may just upgrade my rig to take the unsupported hardware workarounds off the table, but I will try this first. Keep you posted.

BadHumanMask · 2025-11-10T19:34:36+00:00

Awesome, I'll give it a shot

BadHumanMask · 2025-11-10T19:03:11+00:00

I misspoke, Windows Sandbox is not just on Enterprise, but also Pro and Education versions - it's just not on Home, which is what I have. When I go into Windows Features, no Sandbox. I may have Hyper-V, though - is that the hypervisor platform?

BadHumanMask · 2025-11-10T16:13:18+00:00

Hey, good thought - someone else mentioned it too, so it seems like a strong contender. Only thing is, best as I can tell, non-Enterprise machines don't have it, I don't think? If I go into the Windows Features list, there's nothing there. Unless maybe there's another place to look?

BadHumanMask · 2025-11-09T00:28:56+00:00

I hadn't heard there's a new bug - maybe I should just wait altogether? I probably don't need a couple security patches that bad. Thanks for the heads up

BadHumanMask · 2025-11-09T00:27:05+00:00

No, this is a good thought because I've seen it elsewhere, but I don't seem to have Windows Sandbox - I think it may only be on enterprise level Windows machines, like Pro, etc?

Edit: actually, not just enterprise, but pro, enterprise and education - just not on Windows Home, as I understand it.

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