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<blockquote data-quote="philappleton" data-source="post: 1824977" data-attributes="member: 392340"><p>Hi Guys & Girls,</p><p></p><p>I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a very strange internet speed issue I'm having. If anyone ever went through all the previous posts / or followed it as things developed then you would of seen before all the weird things I was encountering on my Apple products which seemed to baffle Apple Senior Advisors and some very knowledgeable people on here! Well its never gone away completely however instead of everyday my Electronics playing up and crashing then now it comes and goes. </p><p></p><p>First of all here is a Youtube link to the video clip recording of me actually doing these tests although it might be worth reading on a bit before watching the clip <a href="https://youtu.be/pXp4cN41cSk" target="_blank">YouTube</a></p><p></p><p>And below is a writeup of the problem I'm having.</p><p></p><p>Now I know this is a Mac forum however I'm kinda hoping the Admin and Moderators don't mind me posting this regarding my iPhone because it does include a link to a Youtube recording I've done which does include my MacBook. Plus I tend to find a lot of guys on here are good with all apple devices, so I'm hoping there may be a solution to my problem.</p><p></p><p>So using my iPhone 7 as a internet hotspot I don’t understand why it runs so slowly when other devices connecting to the hotspot are getting ten times the speed in a nutshell is my problem.</p><p></p><p>In this recording I have my iPhone 7 generating a hotspot and I connect my MacBookPro and Samsung S7 Edge to the hotspot. </p><p></p><p>First I run a internet speed test on my iPhone and only get 3.52Mbps Download and 9.82Mbps Upload which is slow for 4G where I live. Sometimes I can get 60Mbps Download on 4G. Anyway, next I test the internet speed of my Samsung S7 Edge which is connected to the iPhone’s Hotspot. Now here I would only expect slightly slower than the iPhone itself, bearing in mind the iPhone and Samsung need to communicate to one another over WIFI and then iPhone acting as a router then on to 4G, whereas on the iPhone it’s just straight in and out over 4G. So even if the Samsung isn’t slower than the iPhone there is no way it should be faster and maximum speed would be up to the speed of the iPhone itself. Same as a home network, your router will always achieve a faster Internet speed that any device connected to it. So the Samsung S7 achieves 38.9Mbps Download and 24.6Mbps Upload! That is ten times faster download than the iPhone! So next I try the MacBook Pro and first of all the Speedtest App didn’t work at all and needed to be restarted. After the restart the MacBook achieved 27.4Mbps Download and 13.3Mbps upload!</p><p></p><p>I then test the S7 and iPhone again and get 35.2Mbps Download and 23.9Mbps Upload on the Samsung and the iPhone was still painfully slow and only achieved 4.06Mbps Download and 9.72 Upload.</p><p></p><p>Are there any Network specialists out there that can explain to me why the iPhone is running so slow? And why is the iPhone got the slow connection when in fact it is in effect the router?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance to everyone who has taken a look even if you are not sure yourself I still appreciate you taking the time to have a look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="philappleton, post: 1824977, member: 392340"] Hi Guys & Girls, I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a very strange internet speed issue I'm having. If anyone ever went through all the previous posts / or followed it as things developed then you would of seen before all the weird things I was encountering on my Apple products which seemed to baffle Apple Senior Advisors and some very knowledgeable people on here! Well its never gone away completely however instead of everyday my Electronics playing up and crashing then now it comes and goes. First of all here is a Youtube link to the video clip recording of me actually doing these tests although it might be worth reading on a bit before watching the clip [url=https://youtu.be/pXp4cN41cSk]YouTube[/url] And below is a writeup of the problem I'm having. Now I know this is a Mac forum however I'm kinda hoping the Admin and Moderators don't mind me posting this regarding my iPhone because it does include a link to a Youtube recording I've done which does include my MacBook. Plus I tend to find a lot of guys on here are good with all apple devices, so I'm hoping there may be a solution to my problem. So using my iPhone 7 as a internet hotspot I don’t understand why it runs so slowly when other devices connecting to the hotspot are getting ten times the speed in a nutshell is my problem. In this recording I have my iPhone 7 generating a hotspot and I connect my MacBookPro and Samsung S7 Edge to the hotspot. First I run a internet speed test on my iPhone and only get 3.52Mbps Download and 9.82Mbps Upload which is slow for 4G where I live. Sometimes I can get 60Mbps Download on 4G. Anyway, next I test the internet speed of my Samsung S7 Edge which is connected to the iPhone’s Hotspot. Now here I would only expect slightly slower than the iPhone itself, bearing in mind the iPhone and Samsung need to communicate to one another over WIFI and then iPhone acting as a router then on to 4G, whereas on the iPhone it’s just straight in and out over 4G. So even if the Samsung isn’t slower than the iPhone there is no way it should be faster and maximum speed would be up to the speed of the iPhone itself. Same as a home network, your router will always achieve a faster Internet speed that any device connected to it. So the Samsung S7 achieves 38.9Mbps Download and 24.6Mbps Upload! That is ten times faster download than the iPhone! So next I try the MacBook Pro and first of all the Speedtest App didn’t work at all and needed to be restarted. After the restart the MacBook achieved 27.4Mbps Download and 13.3Mbps upload! I then test the S7 and iPhone again and get 35.2Mbps Download and 23.9Mbps Upload on the Samsung and the iPhone was still painfully slow and only achieved 4.06Mbps Download and 9.72 Upload. Are there any Network specialists out there that can explain to me why the iPhone is running so slow? And why is the iPhone got the slow connection when in fact it is in effect the router? Thanks in advance to everyone who has taken a look even if you are not sure yourself I still appreciate you taking the time to have a look. [/QUOTE]
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