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Why is my apple products slower that my microsoft products
Surface and droid have over 100 mb wifi. Apple phone and ipad around 20 mb. Why the difference? Our house uses both operating systems regulary.
I second the recommendation to use 5 GHz. AFAIK, Apple devices will only use 20 MHz wide channels at 2.4 GHz. It doesn't matter if you have set the router to use 40 MHz; Apple won't use it.
Apple products just suck in general, I can't understand what everyone loves about Apple. I am the family and Friends IT person and when anyone calls me about problems 9 out of 10 times it includes an Apple product not working correctly, O and iTunes just hate it, The worst piece of software I can think of. Apple has a better way, Ya right. Garbage
have to agree when it comes to wifi apple devices only love other apple devices its part of the apple creed to suck you in and make you buy their stuff only , the work around is to cripple your own wifi ( 20mhz ) to make apple devices talk , thus again apple forcing its self on even the non apple centric world , dam you steve jobs lol
I think you said it better then I could. When it comes to Apple you better be totally in the Apple world head to toe or your going to have problems. And you know its not fair to all these other company that have great products such as Netgear, Asus, Open-Mesh because right a way the owner of these Apple iOS devices think these other great company products are junk and that's simply not the case. It's Apple thats garbage in every other aria other then great hardware.
In closing, Apple products in general don't play well with other product's from great company like Netgear. You sign up for Apple stick to Apple or free yourself from it and move to Android/Microsoft, Plain and simple. I do tech support and Apple is one of the most challenging of all, Everything from iTunes to iOS no joke. Thank god I was able to get most of my family and friend off the Apple way and my weekends are very peaceful now other then the few family members and friends that just have to have Apple in there life.
The stores are crowded with customers waiting for the Genius bar rather than waiting to buy an Apple product. The genious of Steve Jobs was to make the store always look crowded.
OK, I have to call BS on the way that this thread is going. Netgear released a product with great potential, but with basically beta firmware. No guest network, no USB, all kinds of devices (not just Apple) losing connection? And what I just mentioned is not all-encompassing! Come on, let's get serious here. You can turn this into an Apple bashing thread if you want to, but that's not productive in solving all the issues that Orbi is having right now.
however the title does read ,
"Why is my apple products slower that my microsoft products"
and so we are exploring that aspect and explaining why in general apple dont play nice helps the op also understand the issue it has with the orbi
i do however concur plenty needs to be and has to be done , it isnt beta firmware if it was released with the product , its called initial release firmware and is what netgear team decided to release the orbi with , how well its fixed and how much its improved is now in the hands of the dev team and not the beta test team
