Wi-Fi Performance Really Bad

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Hey guys,

The last month or so with my 6S+ has been horrendous when on Wi-fi. It just randomly started one day where I noticed it would either take ages to connect or when connected, just be stupidly slow.

Some days it's fine but others it's almost unusable to the point I just use data, which means I'm nearly maxing out my allowance. Even at home, where I'm used to getting a 72MB connection, it acts it's on 1% of that speed. The frustrating thing is when I run a speedtest, it does get the correct speed!

I've reset the network settings and that seemed to help for a couple of days, but that could just be coincidence, as like I said, some days it is ok.

The only real option I have according to t'interwebs is to reformat as a new phone, but I REALLY want to avoid that if I can as I've got so much stuff on there that would take an absolute age to get back to how I need it

Anyone had any experiences with this and luck with fixing it? I'm almost tempted to install the iOS10 beta just to see if that fixes it
 
Is this on any wireless network or just when you're on one specific one? I noticed a while ago that my wifi performance was utter pants but only when I was at home. Discovered some local QRM which was totally destroying wifi channels 1-4 at various times of the day so I moved my router up to the top of the band which fixed it.
 
You're not using a dual band router are you? (e.g. BT Home Hub)

iPhones have a problem particularly with the BT Home Hub where it can't decide which band to use, so it sort of flicks between them and basically acts like it's got a terrible connection. Check on the router settings and either disable one of the bands or set them up with separate SSIDs.
 
You're not using a dual band router are you? (e.g. BT Home Hub)

iPhones have a problem particularly with the BT Home Hub where it can't decide which band to use, so it sort of flicks between them and basically acts like it's got a terrible connection. Check on the router settings and either disable one of the bands or set them up with separate SSIDs.

Really? Haven't had a single issue with my 6S + however I am using a proper access point rather than ISP supplied rubbish.
 
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