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EagleOne
Copper Contributor
Apr 17, 2019

New Edge Download Speeds

I've been comparing the download speeds between browsers.  This new Edge Chromium is slower than Chrome, Original Edge, and Internet Explorer.

 

The original version of Edge was the fastest.

  • PeteVfi's avatar
    PeteVfi
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 06, 2019

     

    Sorry, didn't find any other thread to join in with this problem ...

     

    Please, is there any known cause or solution for this Microsoft Edge browser Wi-Fi download speed slowdown problem.
     
    Having from my operator a 50Mbps VDSL2-line and a ZyXEL VMG3925-B10B ADSL/VDSL2-router with Wi-Fi connections for 2.4/5GHz and latest f/w.
     
    My machine is a laptop with all up-to-date Windows 10 Pro 32-bit v1903 18362.267 and a Netgear A6100 USB Wi-Fi connector for 2.4/5GHz and up-to-date driver, ab. 5meters/16ft apart from the router with a good sight, and MS Edge is v44 and HTML v18.
     
    Now lately during some weeks after measuring the line net speeds with Ookla, all other browsers, IE11, Chrome and Firefox do have decent speeds for LAN and both 2.4/5GHz Wi-Fi, downloads 35-45Mbps and uploads 3-6Mbps, but MS Edge is all the time failing with the 5GHz Wi-Fi download to the level 4-10Mbps, but upload is a decent 3-6Mbps.  Some very-very rare times this download may reach some 30-40Mbps level.
     
    If there is any other known hints for this, than uninstall and reinstall MS Edge which is already done, please tell me ... Thanks!
     
    • HotCakeX's avatar
      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Aug 07, 2019
      Have you tried enabling Parallel Downloading flag in edge://flags/ as suggested above?
      • PeteVfi's avatar
        PeteVfi
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 07, 2019

        HotCakeX 

         

        Thanks for the hint.

         

        OK, have been trying the edge://flags, but do not get anywhere than into Google Search page with it ...

         

        I think the problem for this is the Windows 10 Pro 32-bit, as the flags are contained only in 64-bit version ...

         

        Let's see, if something positive happens with this, but of course I can live with this with Edge and in case can use the other browsers.

         

         

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