I've read through a bunch of forum pages and tried a ton of different items so i'm hoping someone here can help.
We also have an older macbook pro and it pulls down about 35mbps over wifi so what i deduced was the speed was only affecting the IOS devices.
I just installed the the .31 Merlin build and forced the mini onto the 2.4GHz SSID, the download initially ramps up to 10mbps down but drifts back to 3mbps, upload is a slightly faster at 5mbps.
Are there any IOS users who can share settings or suggestions for 2.4ghz... i'm probably flagged by amazon by all my purchases and returns by now.
Freq: 2.4ghz
hide ssid: no
wireless mode: N only (nothing else checked)
channel bandwidth (20/40) also tried with 20 only and 40 only
Control channel: 9 (tried auto and every other channel)
Auth: WPA2
WPA encr: AES
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
You know, I've been having similar problems with my iPad 3...sometimes the internet speed test will show the full download speed of 16Mbps, and sometimes it shows 2 or 3Mbps, or some download speed between those. The upload speed is always full speed. All my other devices are all behaving as normal, getting full wireless speed and the router has it's usual outstanding range on 2.4GHz., just the iPad is problematic on the internet speed test. The important thing, though, is that my iPad is functionaly fast enough on WiFi no matter what the internet speed test shows. So I'm taking the iPad speed test results as "interesting", and basically ignoring them, having decided that this is an iOS 6.1.3 thing, and I don't care enough to worry about it at this point.
I've tried power cycling my iPad, "reset networking" on it, and even a full restore install, where it totally reinstalls iOS, and nothing really affects this. Generally, immediately after I do something like resetting networking on my iPad, it will show full speed, then the speed becomes more random after a little while.
So, like I said, at this point I've decided that the internet on my iPad is totally functional, and is way fast enough, so I'm not worrying about it. Maybe it'll get fixed with iOS 7, who knows *smile*?
You may have a setting somewhere that is problematic for your iPad, and that's why things aren't working well, or you may be encountering what I'm seeing, which is just odd performance on the internet speed test. I can't use my ISP's speed test on my iPad, since it requires Flash, of course *smile*. Hopefully what you're seeing isn't affecting your experience doing things on your iPad, just your speed test results, that's the way that it is here.