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Artie-1
My wifi is extremely slow compared to my cell phone. Phone gets 400 mbps with speedtest.net, Surface Pro gets less than 100 mbps. I went through all the Microsoft recommendation with no change. I went looking for a new driver from Marvell and found none.
My current driver is:
Provider: Marvell Semiconductors, Inc.
date is: 1/21/2020
driver version: 15.68.17018.116
So I thought I'd try going back to the first driver shipped with my Surface and low and behold, my wifi got to 355 mbps. So I then picked a prior driver (date:2/9/2017, ver:15.68.9114.29) and it too worked well. So apparently the 15.68.17018.116 driver slows things down.
How to rollback your driver:
1. select Windows Key and x
2. select Device Manager
3. expand Network adapters
4. right click on Marvel AVASTAR Wireless-AC.........
5. select Properties --> Drivers --> Update Drivers
6. click on "Browse my computer for drivers"
7. click on "Let me pick from a list of available drivers ........"
8. make sure "Show compatible hardware" is checked
9. the driver at the top of the list is your current installed driver, so select a driver below it, click on Next, driver will install, click on close.
note: Before you reboot, you can see the driver version by repeating steps 4 & 5 above.
10. reboot to activate
Hope this works for you as well.
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My current driver is:
Provider: Marvell Semiconductors, Inc.
date is: 1/21/2020
driver version: 15.68.17018.116
So I thought I'd try going back to the first driver shipped with my Surface and low and behold, my wifi got to 355 mbps. So I then picked a prior driver (date:2/9/2017, ver:15.68.9114.29) and it too worked well. So apparently the 15.68.17018.116 driver slows things down.
How to rollback your driver:
1. select Windows Key and x
2. select Device Manager
3. expand Network adapters
4. right click on Marvel AVASTAR Wireless-AC.........
5. select Properties --> Drivers --> Update Drivers
6. click on "Browse my computer for drivers"
7. click on "Let me pick from a list of available drivers ........"
8. make sure "Show compatible hardware" is checked
9. the driver at the top of the list is your current installed driver, so select a driver below it, click on Next, driver will install, click on close.
note: Before you reboot, you can see the driver version by repeating steps 4 & 5 above.
10. reboot to activate
Hope this works for you as well.
Continue reading...