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I have a 5+ year old AirPort Extreme Wireless Station (Model A1301, 3rd Generation, Early 2009), and 2 year old MacBook Pro, and a 2 year old home made gaming PC running Windows 8.1.
On my Mac, I get 50Mbps+ download (As confirmed by SpeedTest.net) but on my PC, I can’t get above 15Mbps. This is more of a recent phenomenon, because I never noticed slow ping while playing online games until a couple months ago.
I thought maybe it was the router, so I purchased a Netgear N600. My PC has a Medialink 802.11n USB wireless dongle. I plugged it in and nothing, still the same speeds.
I also tried changing my DNS (to Google’s at 8.8.8.8
) but that didn’t help.
My PC is on the other side of the room, but not more than 15 feet away with a direct line of sight. I also tried moving my MacBook Pro right next to the PC and I was still able to get fast speeds on my Mac.
I just ordered another Wi-Fi dongle for my PC, thinking 802.11ac might do the trick.
What else could this be? It is weird because I usually get 30ms ping on my online games but now I’m getting 80ms.
SOLUTION: A new Wi-Fi dongle (dual band) for my PC did the trick. I purchased the Netgear A6200. The funny thing is, I get 50+Mbps with the new dongle + AirPort Extreme but with the Netgear N600 router + Netgear A6200 dongle, I only get 25Mbps using either 2.4GHz or 5GHz.
1Why'd you buy an 802.11ac dongle for your Mac if your Mac was already fast? Did you mean to say you bought it for your PC? Did you know that your AP needs to support the same flavor in order to get the higher data rate? So upgrading your PC's dongle to 802.11ac doesn't help until you upgrade your AP to 802.11ac. – Spiff – 2015-09-21T01:42:00.990
Yes, I meant I purchased another dongle for my PC. It is dual band so will hopefully be fast on 5ghz – Matthew Berman – 2015-09-21T03:45:47.703