Windows 10: Slow Wi-Fi over 5Ghz on Intel AC3168

Hi,


After 13 hours of trying to fix a problem, which was slow Wi-Fi over the 5Ghz band only for my PC, which runs on Windows 10 and is with the Intel's AC3168 adapter I found a solution and want to share it with you and find why this works.

The solution was the following:

I downgraded the Wi-Fi driver to the one from Windows:



After doing that the 5Ghz Wi-Fi was still really slow - around 1-5Mbits./s and sometimes it was going up to 20Mbits/s.



Then when I gone to the "Advanced" tab of the Wi-Fi settings and set the HT model from "VHT" to "HT" ac to n the speed jumped like hell:



Can we discuss why this happened, because I found that solution by myself not in the internet and it is really strange...

:)

 

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