benjitek
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:shocked:...lucky!Speediest.net...SP3 on battery connected 5GHz AC Bluetooth enabled
Comcast Residential 50Mbps downstream 8Mbps upstream
This is consistent with my SP2 and S2
Wifi on Battery
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benjitek
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Makes sense -- if it isn't transferring anything there's no speed to rate ;-) Is it the same if you turn off Bluetooth?
Interesting... just ran a speedtest.net test, and did get my full download speed (35Mbps) on battery, despite showing a 6Mbps connection that did ramp up a bit to 58Mbps during the download portion of test. The upload portion however is still much slower on battery... plugged in I'm right at 5Mbps, what I always get on all devices; upload speed however is only 1.1Mbps on the SP3 when on battery.
This is using whatever drivers were installed during Windows Update and using an updated Netgear R7000 5.0ghz AC network.
This is using whatever drivers were installed during Windows Update and using an updated Netgear R7000 5.0ghz AC network.
benjitek
Active Member
Bluetooth on or off?
Bluetooth on.
I'm testing it now myself, not sure if the guid are the same but here's the command.
powercfg -setdcvalueindex 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e 19cbb8fa-5279-450e-9fac-8a3d5fedd0c1 12bbebe6-58d6-4636-95bb-3217ef867c1a 000
Btw, this setting only affects wireless power saving to force it max performance when on dc power which replicates the same setting as ac power mode. Confirm the setting change before and after with 'powercfg /q | more' and it should show on the first page.
powercfg -setdcvalueindex 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e 19cbb8fa-5279-450e-9fac-8a3d5fedd0c1 12bbebe6-58d6-4636-95bb-3217ef867c1a 000
Btw, this setting only affects wireless power saving to force it max performance when on dc power which replicates the same setting as ac power mode. Confirm the setting change before and after with 'powercfg /q | more' and it should show on the first page.
scfoster
Member
I'm having wi-fi issues both with battery or connected to power. Just got off the phone with MS Support and the tech told me they are aware that there are wi-fi "issues". She put me on hold for a while and came back and told me a fix was in the works.
With the SP3 sitting next to my Macbook Air, the download/upload speeds over wireless are half the Macbook speeds. The Macbook has full bars and the SP3 has 3 bars. So there is an issue.
We did the wi-fi driver uninstall then reboot. That seemed to help a little.
She did tell me I have 45 days to return the SP3. Would rather not as I do like the form factor.
With the SP3 sitting next to my Macbook Air, the download/upload speeds over wireless are half the Macbook speeds. The Macbook has full bars and the SP3 has 3 bars. So there is an issue.
We did the wi-fi driver uninstall then reboot. That seemed to help a little.
She did tell me I have 45 days to return the SP3. Would rather not as I do like the form factor.
benjitek
Active Member
It's good you have the safety-net of time to return it. It might be worth considering, maybe revisit the device once they come out with the 2nd-gen version of the SP3.
Although the sleep issue is still present and the latency still appears to be somewhat of an issue. After using this to work this evening remotely, I can confirm the overall connection is ten-fold better with this setting. FYI to this interested to try this out, by setting 000 to be 002 it reverts to the original setting.
