Macbook Pro M1 Slow WiFi

Wi-Fi slow — current accommodations include:

• Updating to the very latest version of Monterey.

• Checking the [√] ask to Join new networks check box:



AND purging the list of potentially-available networks in this pane:

System preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > (Advanced) ...

... to leave ONLY the networks you might really join:



>> all of these reduce the number of networks your Mac is evaluating on a moment-by moment basis, looking for a better connection.

• set IPv6 to link-local only, instead of on or off.

If you continue to have trouble after using these steps, create a new named Network "Location" -- a collection of settings applied "all at once" when you select it. Every new named "Location" you create starts with all defaults, which lets you walk away from any bogus settings that might be causing you trouble:

How to use network locations on your Mac - Apple Support

How to use network locations on your Mac - Apple Support

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Hold down the Option key while you click on the Wi-Fi icon on the menubar. you get a snapshot similar to this one. transcribe or screenshot the results and post back here for analysis:

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Poisoning Internet performance:.

By far the easiest way to ruin performance is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers,Virus scanners or a VPN you installed yourself.

Next up is Non Apple-native File sync-ers. (Stay with me on this one.) Dropbox, Microsoft Onedrive, Google drive and others are in this category. Since they were ported from that other OS environment, they IGNORE the Mac File System Event Store (that could tell them EXACTLY what folders have changed recently) and instead do a a Brute-force read of all your files, and all the files stored on their drive on the Internet. This punishes the ability to get any data (including speed test data) through their enormous and frivolous file reading and re-reading.

Backup-to-the-Web Utilities are also in this category. Your backup should be on a local drive, not on the web. If you question this, just ask.

Last up is Apple Sync-ers, such as sync-ing your iPhotos Library to iCloud. A substantial iPhotos library can take many, many hours to bring up-to-date, but at least Apple is smart enough that only the changes must then be brought up to date again.