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Just throwing this out there: on my hardware, this improves my upload but hurts my download speeds. There could possibly be reasons why it’s not set by default.
I tried it out on another laptop since I posted this, and that had the inverse - download speeds went up by about 20% or so, but the upload speed seems have taken a hit of about 10%. On my 'main' laptop both improved quite drastically.
So yeah definitely a 'your mileage may vary' type of situation, but it's easy enough to reverse I guess so worth a shot if anyone has a bit of a speed problem. You might get lucky!
I think i read about this once. Something like, Windows has less strict requirements for drivers and hardware, which is why driver-side workarounds for broken hw works better there. Or something like that.
Are you in a particularly busy wifi area or one without a lot of traffic?
My Wi-Fi bands are saturated with about 50 networks on 2.4 in an apartment complex.