Slow internet connection M1 wifi

They did not offer any help at all. I did self diagnose that the wifi speed does improve as I get closer to my router, however this seems to be intermittent. I walked around the house with it the other day and the signal degrades significantly literally every 5-10 feet. iPad and iPhone both held the same signal most of the way across the house. I have been very disappointed in the poor tech knowledge that I've experienced with apple support recently. The whole "shoulder shrug" conclusion is unbelievable.

Same deal: Internet connection on new Macbook Pro with M1 intermittently slows way down. I fired up my old Macbook Air (circa 2015) and it's whizzing along just fine. That tells me the problem is the machine, not the connection. Offline, I do not experience the M1 as a speed demon, either. Disappointing.

Yeah, the level could be better. I am indeed far from the router which is located on a different floor. So yes, the signal is weak-ish, though still completely usable by my other devices in the same room. It’s not like the signal is marginal and goes on and off. It’s either 30 Mbps or 0.5 Mbps, and once it goes in that « slow state », it does not ever come back up (until a reboot). Then it can be fine for days until the issue shows up again. Think of it as a « normal » state and a « sluggish » state. Definitely fishy and solved by rebooting, which maybe points to a driver issue?

I can hit great upload and download at the office (200+), and literally 10 minutes later be under 5 on a download. No rhyme or reason to reason to application or browser extensions open and the change in speed. I did a complete reset and before installing anything testing again. Still had wildly inconsistent results. I am in an office with 100 other people, only the m1s seem to have this issue. Most other user have intel based pros and airs, some PCs - no issues with these folks.

this worked for me! I uninstalled login items dropbox and google sync. i still hope apple fixes the root problem here but thank you for posting this solution!