Turn off Windows Update Delivery. Windows 10 turns your PC into a file sharing server. Stop Background Programs That Hog Bandwidth. Some software applications, like Windows Update. Use an Ethernet Cable Instead of WiFi. Surprisingly, many people don’t realise that using an Ethernet.
I was helping my friend again with his Mac he complained his internet speed is not as advertised. I went ahead and tested my internet speed via Ethernet and I resulted 250 Mbps from fast.com When testing his Apple iMac Pro I only resulted in 50 Mbps via Ethernet. I was baffled, I went ahead changed/checked the following:
What Slows Down Wifi Speed
Changed the MTU. No improvement
Manually set IP. No improvement
Changed Ethernet cable to a fancy CAT-7 cable. No improvement
Checked to see if there was any malware or viruses. None.
Nothing was downloading.
Checked if there was any issue with the writing speed on the SSD. Writing speed was good.
The breakthrough was when I decided to ping to google.com on my Windows laptop. What I realized was that I was getting IPv6 from google.com instead of IPv4.
Mac Slow Internet Speed
So I decided to go back into the Ethernet settings and enable IPV6 since it was not enabled
Mac Wifi Download Speed Slow Windows 7
Steps to enable IPv6:
Apple menu
System Preferences
Network
Choose your connection type. For me it was Ethernet
Advanced Button
Select the TCP/IP
Change the Configure IPv6 drop-down box from Off to Automatically.
Mac Wifi Download Speed Slow Version
After enabling IPV6, I speed test the iMac and to my surprise it was finally getting 200+ Mbps. I decided to turn off IPv4 and use IPv6 alone, but unfortunately that did not work. So I left IPv4 on. Most likely when he configured his network, he accidentally enabled IPv6. At the same time I’m pretty baffled on why IPv4 is slower than IPv6.Almost 4x as slow. Maybe he configured his network wrong and so the IPv4 takes a longer route to respond? Or maybe IPv6 once enabled has a higher priority than IPv4? I decided to leave it as is since he was happy the internet was finally up to its advertised speed. Hopefully, this post becomes helpful for someone with a similar issue.