Terrible upload speed despite good speed test

Terrible upload speed despite good speed test

Terrible upload speed despite good speed test
Terrible upload speed despite good speed test
2025-01-04 23:54:38
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I'm getting 455.5 Mbps when I do a speed test using the Tether app and yet while uploading large video files via wifi with my MacBook Pro within clear line of site to the router only 20 feet away I'm only getting about 15 Mb/s. I've rebooted the router, I've tried enabling and disabling Smart Connect, I've prioritzed the MacBook Pro in the list of connected Clients. 

 

Also, in the past I've tried using a wired connection to the router and have also not achieved better speeds.

 

When I do a speed test on my MacBook Pro (connected by wifi), I get 457 Mbps download and just 157 Mbps upload. There are plenty of other devices on the network but most of them are HomePods or little things. None are actively uploading anything.

 

What is going on??

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Re:Terrible upload speed despite good speed test
2025-01-05 02:00:29

  @redfitz 

 

Since it is both Ethernet and wifi, I would suspect the Macbook. 
 

Use your OS utilities to see if you can isolate the issue. Start with the activity monitor. 
 

Also do the usual things like power cycle, reviewing disk space, memory usage, check security, ...

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Re:Terrible upload speed despite good speed test
2025-01-05 04:47:22

  @ArcherC8 Thanks. However, nothing looks amiss in Activity Monitor. Nothing else is sending any data of any significance at all on the Network and there's plenty of memory and CPU bandwidth. I also have had no problems utilizing full upload bandwidth on other networks with this MacBook Pro.

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Re:Terrible upload speed despite good speed test
3 weeks ago

  @ArcherC8 

 

To add to this, I just tested uploading using the same MacBook Pro on an identical TP-Link router in a different location and achieved virtually the same upload speeds as those reported by the router via a speed test. On that router I'm getting around 40 Mb/s which is basically what I'm paying for. And on that one, I'm much further away from the router and separated by several walls. Whereas on the router in question, I continue to get a max of 27 Mb/s despite the router speed testing at 513.7 Mbps. 

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