iPad wifi speeds at 20mb cap?

I have an iPad Air 2 and was having the same issue. My internet speed is 60Mbps but I was only getting about 20-25Mbps over my iPad. I logged in to my Netgear router and went to the QoS settings and Enabled WMM (Wi-Fi multimedia) settings. I now get 60Mbps on my iPad. My Galaxy S6 connection speed was already getting the 60Mbps speed and that did not change after enabling WMM.

I hope that simple setting helps.

My internet connection is fibreoptics. 100Mps down and 10 Mbps up. I use a new time capsule as my wifi router , emitting a 5Ghz signal. (11n) On my macbookpro late 2011 i get speeds of about 90Mbps down and 10 up as measured by speedtest.net with the nearest server. Using the same network, from the same position and with the speetest.net app on my new iPad (3) , I get about 15 down and 10 up. I do not understand why the down speed is so much slower than on the macbook pro. And in fact the it is not just speed test. Downloading the same large document takes seconds on me MBPro and minutes on the iPad . Interestingly the speedtest application'graphic on the web as seen on MBPro goes to 100Mbps. while the graphic on the iPad app goes to 20, as if now one woudl ever need higher figures . Does this imply the iPad is capped at 20?

If you connect the laptop to your router using a Ethernet cable you'll get approximately 80% of 50Mbps.

If you connect the iPad using Wi-Fi you'll get approximately 50% of 50Mbps.

There are too many factors affecting the speed of a Wi-Fi connection (router, wireless adapter, antenna, walls, interference etc)

both my laptop and my iPad are connected via wifi. The same wifi. same position in relation to the source of the signal . No ethernet involved at all . I get 90Mbps on laptop, ie nearly teh full 100 but only 15Mbps on iPad. And on both I get the full 10Mbps upload speed