Windows 10: Strange Wifi Connection issues resulting in HUGE packet loss and total drops in service

Hi Guys,

I'm running a clean Windows 10 install on a 5,1 Mac Pro with dual Intel Xeon X5690's and a Broadcom BCM943602CDP 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with an bluetooth 4.2. This is a very new card designed to be compatible with newer macs, it runs perfectly in my Mac Pro in OSX Mojave however when I'm in Windows 10 I'll get weird issues where my download speeds suddenly drop to almost nothing, then go backup, I'll get 100% packet loss rates at times, basically just spikes where it will stop working for a second and then pick back up.

What I've done to test:
changed mac address in windows

set static IP in OSX so i'm not potentially conflicting or competing on the router

if I bounce back from my 2.4 to my 5band it sometimes seems to help, the 2.4 which my mac pro never connects to in OSX seems to be a bit more stable.

uninstalled device/tried different drivers, I've also used driver booster, everything says I have the right drivers installed in windows, but I'm wondering if this is the issue?

Currently I'm on a guest network on my 5g band on my netgear 6400 and that hasn't fixed the issue, I really thought it was a conflict where my router would see two devices log in and out with the same Mac address and IP address, but I've reset my router after updating those on my Mac Pro and it hasn't changed.

This internet issue makes gaming of any kind impossible, again everything is perfect on Mojave, just endless issues in Windows 10.

any ideas?

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Getting weird spikes of packet loss

At random intervals (often every minute or less) I will get packet loss. This is most noticeable and irritating when I am gaming. It doesn't matter what game they all do the same thing, ping stays the same but I will lose connection or just stand there. (There's almost a rubber band effect where on my screen I keep moving but then my connection catches up and I ping back to where I lost connection)

If I ping google in the CMD it usually goes like so:

ping -t www.gogle.com
reply from google with 10ms etc (multiple times)
Request timed out (When this happens I lose connection in my games)
then it goes back to replies from google

packet loss will range between 1 and 5% on a constant basis.

I've contacted my ISP and they said my line is fine. So does this mean it's on my end?
Secondly I was online in a game when this problem occurred, over night my connection dropped and then it reconnected and having this packet issue.

I've tried so many things but nothing works.

• E.g changing MTU values
• connecting directly to the modem (still gets the packet loss)
• tracert to see which hops are bad (I didn't really understand what I saw tbh but nothing looked amiss)
• power cycling the router and modem
• connecting to the test socket
• changing / sorting out the cables

(I'm on TalkTalk Fibre broadboad by the way, my upload and download are fine)

Please help!! *Frown