After i Updated my Mac to Catalina10.15.7 my wifi is running slower 1000times.

Yesterday i updated my Mac Ca10.15.7 and since the finish of the update my wifi is running with KB/s and before my wifi was 150Mb..


I can't open anything online without waiting for mins.


Any solutions i can do to make this issue go becasue i can't work/play or do anything that contains wifi.

MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 18, 2020 6:11 AM

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Oct 18, 2020 7:44 AM in response to OmarImad

I have one observation to offer. The computer only has 4 GB of RAM installed which is woefully insufficient. To run Catalina, the minimum amount of RAM should be 16 GB or more. Catalina does use more RAM than earlier operating systems. I think part of your problem is the lack of RAM which is causing the computer to function very slowly overall.

Oct 18, 2020 8:05 AM in response to Ronasara

I agree that 4GB of RAM is not a lot, but:

a) it would not specifically affect wifi speed so excessively

b) 8GB would be more than enough for most people. More RAM only makes a difference if you use more demanding applications or have a lot of them open at tge same time. If one is, say, just using the mac for surfing the web, checking e-mail and listening to music (all at the same time) there will be NO difference between having 8 or 16GB.

Look, I do have 16GB but I can run Final Cut Pro and a dozen other applications simultaneously. Just saying that more RAM does not a faster mac make (unless it was lacking in the first place).

Oct 18, 2020 9:14 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

In this instance, I am speaking from personal experience. My wife had a late 2009 iMac with 4 GB of RAM. She kept complaining how slow things were. It wasn't until I sat down at her computer and used it that I really understood . It was virtually unusable for anything. At the time, I didn't think to check the RAM and I incorrectly concluded that the HD was dying. We bought her a new iMac. Incidentally, I recently pulled the old computer out of the closet, added RAM and now use it for another purpose and it still runs great.

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