Laptop wifi speed capped at ~100 Mbps on Windows, but gets full 150 Mbps speed on Linux (same laptop) and another android device
- Laptop HP Pavilion Gaming 15 ec1016ax
- Wi-Fi Card Realtek RTL8822CE (802.11ac / 2x2)
- Windows 11
- Router Huawei HG8145v5 5GHz network, ISP provided.
In Windows, my laptop refuses to negotiate past a 144 Mbps Link Speed (Wifi 4 802.11n) on my 5GHz network, which caps my actual download speed at around 100 Mbps. Meanwhile, my phone sitting right next to it gets a 350+ Mbps link speed (Wifi 5 802.11 ac) and pulls well over 150 Mbps down.
When I reboot the exact same laptop into Fedora Linux, the Wi-Fi pulls the full 150 Mbps.
I've updated the drivers that i found on Hp tech support forum from the old 2020 SP107515, 2023 SP144871, and 2025 SP162860. None of them fix the 144 Mbps Link Speed cap.
in driver properties > advanced > wireless mode option does not give the ac option. just 802.11 a/b/g.
u/protonu12 — 3 days ago