Windows 10: 4G WiFi connection drops to 512Kbps after waking form power save.

Hello everyone,

I've been fighting with my ISP for months over this, but it just might turn out that they may be telling the truth for once.

Basically, I have an unlimited mobile 4G plan with three SIMs, each of which is in a 4G Android phone, the hotspots of which I use alternately as and when needed.

In our household are two desktops and three laptops, all running Windows 10 Pro, and one laptop running Lubuntu.

In about November 2015, I started noticing that my connectivity speeds would drop from multiple gigabits per second to an average maximum of about 512kbps after a certain amount of data (usually two gigabytes downloaded and uploaded) has been consumed within the respective 24 hours; speed would go back up to 4G levels the moment the clock hits 12:00 AM every night. The throttling affects all machines and all SIMs.

I took on my ISP with this, and every agent I ever talked to said that they don't have a fair usage policy in place for subscribers of unlimited plan - in fact, that one of their marketing points; they even say so on their website. They firmly denied the implementation of a fair usage policy even after I showed them screenshots of the moment the connection speed dropped.

I even tried running YouTube continuously on my phones for a stretch of time to see what happens, with YouTube's autoplay feature turned on, and, indeed, I noticed that after a while of running videos at 1080p, I could barely run any videos at a resolution higher than 144p.

Then, today, as I was syncing my wife's OneDrive folder on her new account on one of the desktops, I noticed that the speed actually dropped only after I moved the mouse/pressed a key on the keyboard to wake the machine up from power-save mode (i.e. turn on the screen.) So I started having doubts as to where the problem actually lies - is it a setting on any or all of my PCs that I had overlooked somehow?

Any thoughts? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Typo issue in Wi-Fi setting screen.

Actually using either the cellular data(2G/3G/4G) or setting WiFi on doesn't make your phone hackable.

If you keep your WiFi on, the phone searches and connects to available known or open WiFi connection, this obviously saves your cellular data.

WiFi connection uses less power and costs less/free than 3G/4G and keeping WiFi on without any active WiFi connection doesn't consume battery instead it connects using cellular data.

Hope this helps.

 

N8 battery life dropped by 2/3 overnight

Same problem here. When I go to bed I have 100% battery time and when I wake up it has dropped to 10% overnight. Can't figure out the problem. No apps running, power save mode is on and Wifi scan is off.

 

you should check this out https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/928152 - hopefully it gives you more ideas, if not a direct answer

also, you could check off the button "allow windows to turn off this device to save power" via device management to see if it helps you at all.

 

Yup. Already went through all that. Nothing in there that helps.