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junpit

junpit

junpit

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I have just bought the X870E ASRock Taichi Lite. It is a very nice board and is running fine bar WiFi.

I believe this issue is nothing specifically to do with AsRock but effects ALL x670,x870,b650 and b850 boards that support WiFi 6E and WiFi 7.

Essentially MS have not enabled 6 ghz and whilst I don’t have a WiFi 7 router, I do have a set of WiFi 6E routers. The speeds from this Mediatek chipset are dreadful and don’t even come close to my iPhone.

10 mb/s on downloads and 90 mbps on a speed test. I have a 500/100 internet connection. have the google nest WiFi pro 2m away from the pc. It’s awful.

Any suggestions on how to get better speeds. I’m running windows 11 2024H2.
 
The first thing I'd ask is, you did connect the wireless antennae on to the back of the board yes?

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I just performed a WiFi test on my Asus Proart X670E motherboard and had 800mbps down and 900mbps up and the link connection was lsited as 1.2gbps up/down in windows settings. It is also a Mediatek chipset. Router is less than 2m away from the antennae here.
This would suggest that if have the antennae connected in already, you have a different issue on hand.
 
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ha ha. Yes I did.
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It's the first thing anyone should ask. Sometimes it's an easy thing to forget for users.

In that case, the other thing I'd ask is, are those Nest WiFi Pro's connected up via a hardline ethernet or using WiFi backhaul?
And have you used WiFi analyzer to check the local WiFi around your new system? If it's absolutely flooded with WiFi that can be an issue.
 
It’s perfect WiFi conditions. All of the nest WiFi pros are connected via Ethernet backhaul. The room is where I game and is essentially an insulated box with silver backed insulation on all 4 walls, floor and ceiling so there is no WiFi at all without the router in there.

The nest WiFi pros sits 2m away from the mounted antenna.
 
Yeah that doesn't sound right at all. :confused: Which driver have you used? For WiFi and Bluetooth I always use Intel drivers (not from ASrock). Do Mediatek offer something similar? I'm unsure what Mediatek chip that board uses to search.

What do the WiFi stats for Windows show when you are connected? i.e. Band, Channel, Link Speed, etc?
 
Hmmm, I wonder if those silver panels might be causing excessive amount of reflection of the signals and it's confusing the antennae?

As per @Firegod are you able to provide us the info on the Link Speed, Band, Channel, Driver?

Oh wait. Are you also able to turn your Iphone into a Hotspot? Try and connect to that? And see if that has the same wireless issue? If need be, open the door and leave the phone by the doorway just outside the room so the antennae can still receive it and see if that causes the same connection issue?
 
Sure. It’s connected at 1200/1200 using channel 36 and 5Ghz. It says it’s using 802.11ax.

The throughput is however only showing 90 mbps on a speed test and 11 mb/s downloading.

My MacBook Pro is doing the full 500 mbps on a speed test in the same room. It feels like it’s not using the full 160 mhz channel width and that’s the reason for being slow.

I’ll do some more testing.
 
Well…

Everything was reset and everything unplugged including the gigabit switch in the room.

Things have improved. It does 200 mbps on a speed treat now like the MacBook Pro. My iPhone 16 pro max does the full 500 in the same room although it wasn’t doing.

I think it’s only doing 80 mhz channel width like the MacBook Pro and hopefully this will be resolved via a driver soon. I’ll raise it with ASRock.

MORE CONCERNING however is that between last night and this morning the wired network port is not working and does not even have any lights on it. Last night I plugged it in via a long wired cable and it was fine. It lit up orange and windows reported it as connected at gigabit speed. Now windows says it’s disconnected and connecting it to the switch, the nest WiFi or anything via 5 different cables results in no lights. Its faulty. J even checked the bios to make sure it was enabled.

I’m currently stuck with WiFi but 200 mbps is ok.

Perhaps it was the temperature drop overnight as this is my external garage which has been converted. It has ac in there so is heated but it dropped down to 12 overnight.

I can’t live with the wired port as it’s brand new so will have to get in touch with support at OC.
 
That is really bad luck. But hopefully with a replacement, it might even resolve your wireless connection as well at the same time. As we don't know if the wirelss wasn't faulty (hardware based), or the lanes for communications wasn't faulty and hence causing a problem there that didn't fix itself until the wired connection went out. (The Asus Proart X670E for example had their USB4/Thunderbolt lanes shared with the PCIe5 m.2 drive spot, and using that drive at full can knock out the USB4/Thunderbolt lanes if connected and in use at the same time).
 
That’s interesting. I have 3 m.2 gen 4 drives in it. It’s got 7tb so I wonder if that’s impacting.

Just bought some BE65 WiFi 7 devices from Amazon to see if it will run at full
Speed if I swap them out.
 
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