Enabling Airdrop decreases WiFi quality?

jamerlin wrote:

Was having problems with WiFi. Tried several options as disconnecting different peripherals (screen, cable mouse). Nothing worked.

Updated MacOS to 14.6.1. Nothing

Then I disabled bluetooth connection and it seemed to improve the quality of the connection.

Enabled bluetooth and disabled Airdrop and it seems to be stable with some quality.

For Continuity features like Airdrop, both WIFI and bluetooth should be on...

ref: Use Continuity to work across Apple devices - Apple Support

I have not heard of this conflict before—

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party

system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

verify your software is up to date…

The current stable release of Sonoma including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 14.6.1

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support