GTI15 - slow wifi issues

milkmonsta

Hello Beelink team,

I just bought an GTI15 Ultra with 96GB RAM and 2×1TB SSD. This PC has a very slow wifi speed.

What I already tried:

Clean and full Windows 11 Pro installation 25H2 (not the recovery mode but via the MS Windows MediaCreationTool) - Windows Build 26200.7705
Installation of all drivers in the Beelink GTI15 driver section at https://dr.bee-link.cn/?dir=uploads%2FGTI%2FGTi15
Full Windows update cylce
Updating the BIOS to version 205 via https://dr.bee-link.cn/?dir=uploads%2FGTI%2FGTi15
I tried the proposed measures of https://bbs.bee-link.com/d/8922-gti-15-slow-wifi-speed (updating the drivers and unchecking “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.” in the device manager.)
Unplugging the power cable, wait for 15 minutes, replugging the power cable and restarting the PC

None of these measures had any effect. Wifi Speed is still abysmal. For comparision: downloading the 5GB file at https://www.speedtestx.de works with around 20MB/s at my Lenovo laptop while it is constantly at around 0.5MB/s at the GTI15.

Any advice on how I can solve this issue is highly appreciated!

Since I have a version with two 1GB SSDs and the second SSD is placed directly on top of the wifi module: would it be possible that the second SSD is responsible for the slow speed?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Beelink CS-George

milkmonsta Hi there,

Could you please take out the second SSD to see if the WIFI speed will improve a bit ?

milkmonsta

Beelink CS-George

I just removed the SSD above the wifi module and tried angain. Unfortunately, no positive effect. Actually, no change at all. Download is still very slow.

Do you have any other ideas or suggestions?

milkmonsta

Beelink CS-George

As the latest test, I took the Intel AX200 wifi card out of my old laptop and put it into the GTI15. While it was doing 20-23 MB/s in the laptop, it slowed down to the usual 0.5-1 MB/s in the GTI15. It does not matter where I do the tests. Even less than 1m away from the router the values are the same.

For me, this means a) my router is not the problem, b) my internet connection is not the problem and c) both wifi cards seem to be fine as well (I have not put the BE200 into my old laptop to check but I suspect it to work just fine).

Are there any other factors or components that might influence the wifi connection? Maybe some BIOS settings? (There a quite a bunch of “connectivity settings” that I do not understand.)

Will it help if I provide the serial numbers of the devices? If so, can I DM them to you?

ricbits

Hi. Also just received my GTI5. AI have exactly the same issue as you do. What a lame thing to spend almost 2k for a thing that comes with this kind of issues. What should I do?

I am not using anything else besides the PC. I have no SSD. I did notice that internet is a bit better if taking the connection from a smartphone network than from the home’s network

Edit:

Also tried all this:
Clean and full Windows 11 Pro installation 25H2 (not the recovery mode but via the MS Windows MediaCreationTool) - Windows Build 26200.7705
Installation of all drivers in the Beelink GTI15 driver section at https://dr.bee-link.cn/?dir=uploads%2FGTI%2FGTi15
Full Windows update cylce
Updating the BIOS to version 205 via https://dr.bee-link.cn/?dir=uploads%2FGTI%2FGTi15
I tried the proposed measures of https://bbs.bee-link.com/d/8922-gti-15-slow-wifi-speed (updating the drivers and unchecking “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.” in the device manager.)
Unplugging the power cable, wait for 15 minutes, replugging the power cable and restarting the PC

milkmonsta

ricbits

Hey ricbits, sorry to hear that. However, I am quite “relieved” to hear that I am not the only one with this issue. I am going nuts here trying to figure out what the problem is. So it is just good to hear that I am not the only one. Did you buy it directly via the beelink online shop or via another channel?

@Beelink Any more ideas what to try?

ricbits

hey milkmonsta. I understand. I have bought it directly from the website

Beelink CS-George

Hi there, please try to update the latest WIFI driver https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/230078/wireless/intel-wi-fi-7-products/intel-wi-fi-7-series/intel-wi-fi-7-be200.html

ricbits

I have reinstalled the latest driver multiple times

milkmonsta

Same here. I have also installed the latest WIFI driver (24.10.0).

milkmonsta

Still tinkering with this.

I discovered and tried a few more things:

no such problem under Linux (Linux Mint latest Cinnamon version booted from a USB drive) –> download rates as they are supposed to be
Intel released a new driver version (24.20.0 at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19351/intel-wireless-wi-fi-drivers-for-windows-10-and-windows-11.html) –> installed and no effect
if you tinker around with the driver settings (Windows device manager –> network adapters –> Intel BE200 –> properties –> advanced tab, you can set the channel width for 5GHz at 20 Mhz –> this helped quite a bit and resulted in download speeds of approx. 10 MB/s (instead of 0.5-1 MB/s) –> however, still not the expected numbers of 20-25MB/s
(I have tried other (but not all) settings in the advanced tab but the one mentioned above seems to be the only one which had an effect so far.)

@Beelink CS-George In the Gti15 drivers package, where can I find the driver files for the Intel BE200 WIFI card? (Intel suggested on their website that using the manufacturers drivers might be better than using the generic Intel drivers. I would like to try this next but cannot find the driver in the driver package.)

@ricbits Could you please try the “20MHz hack” described above and report back if it improved the situation on your side as well? Thx!

ricbits

hi milkmonsta. No significant improvements tbh, on a 500mb/s connection, getting less than 10 mb/s.

Fortunately the ethernet connection is doing fine, but fixing the Wi-fi issue is still crucial.

Beelink CS-George

Hi there, please try the driver https://url.bee-link.cn/X49E or https://url.bee-link.cn/TOQV

milkmonsta

Beelink CS-George

Just to be sure that I understand you correctly: you are suggesting that I try a MEDIATEK driver with an INTEL wifi module? Will that even work?

milkmonsta

ricbits

No, I did not find a solution yet.

Here is what I tried the last couple of days:

Uninstalled the Intel driver for the BE200 wifi card and tried the Mediatek wifi driver provided by Beelink at https://dr.bee-link.cn/?dir=uploads%2FGTI%2FGTi15%2FDriver as suggested here Beelink CS-George. Windows would not let me use the Mediatek driver for an Intel wifi card.
I ordered and tried a MediaTek MT7925 wifi card. I used the Mediatek driver listed under 1. The behaviour is 100% the same as with the Intel BE 200 wifi card –> same slow download speed, only improved a little bit by limiting the 5 GHz channel bandwidth to “20 Mhz only” in the wifi driver settings. (This is also possible in the Mediatek driver settings.)

So this brings my testing to three wifi cards (Intel BE200 and AX200 as well as MediaTek 7925) which all behave exactly the same. They work fine under Linux but abyssmal under Windows. Even the “20 Mhz only” hack shows identical behaviour.

I am still do not know what the root cause is but I feel pretty confident to exclude a spotty internet connection or faulty wifi cards.

So anyone from @Beelink: Could you please

a) acknowledge the problem?
b) let us know if you were able to replicate the problem and give us an idea what causes it?
c) provide us with a roadmap when we can expect you to solve the problem?

I know this is not the “fanciest” and “quick win” support case but it is a serious one. The Gti15 is not a cheap machine and wifi is not a “nice to have” feature for a modern pc but a mission critical one. So please provide us with some help! Thanks!

TiTi

My opinion on this problem is that the latest versions of the Gti 15 already include the MTK MT7925 wifi module, and not the one I have from Intel. These modules across the laptop are problematic. I think even the new drivers won’t solve anything, just replace them with Intel ones. They’re probably cheaper than Intel🤷♂

milkmonsta

TiTi

Interesting. Are you saying Beelink is replacing the Intel BE200 with the Mediatek MT7925 in all Gti15s that are shipped from now on? Where did you get that information from? The website of the Gti15 still lists the BE200 as the wifi module.

Have you tried the MT7925 with the Gti15 yourself? Does it solve the problem?

TiTi

https://www.google.com/search?q=MTK_MT7925&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

TiTi

On the Beelink drivers page there is an update for the MTK wifi module driver, not Intel, so I understood it by deduction. If it is different, then I don’t know why it is there

https://dr.bee-link.cn/index.php?dir=uploads%2FGTI%2FGTi15%2FDriver

ricbits

Hi @Beelink CS-George any news regarding this topic?

ricbits

@milkmonsta did you manage to find a solution?