{"id":579694,"date":"2025-11-19T04:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:37:13","slug":"apples-custom-wi-fi-chip-gives-the-iphone-17-a-notable-boost-according-to-speed-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579694\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s custom Wi-Fi chip gives the iPhone 17 a notable boost, according to speed tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">On paper, the N1 chip\u2019s Wi-Fi capabilities appear \u201cvirtually identical to its Broadcom-based predecessor\u201d in the iPhone 16, according to Ookla. The N1 is also limited to 160MHz channels and doesn\u2019t take full advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23902812\/wi-fi-7-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wi-Fi 7\u2019s faster 320MHz channels<\/a>, but for real world users that limitation didn\u2019t have a significant impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Using Speedtest Intelligence data gathered during the six-week period after Apple\u2019s latest smartphones were released, Ookla found that the median download and upload speeds of the iPhone 17 family were both up to 40 percent higher than the iPhone 16 family around the world. The N1\u2019s 10th-percentile speeds were even faster at 60 percent higher than the iPhone 16, implying the new chip\u2019s performance improvements are even more noticeable in \u201cchallenging Wi-Fi conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The iPhone 17 family outperformed flagship Android devices like the Pixel 10 family and the Galaxy S25 family in North America, where Wi-Fi 7 devices can use up to three 320 MHz channels, and the N1 should be at a disadvantage. The iPhone 17 family had the highest median and 90th percentile Wi-Fi download speeds of 416.14 Mbps and 976.39 Mbps, respectively. That could change as the number of 320MHz-capable Wi-Fi 7 routers increases in North America, but it reinforces the findings that the N1 can \u201cdeliver more consistent performance in non-ideal Wi-Fi conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On paper, the N1 chip\u2019s Wi-Fi capabilities appear \u201cvirtually identical to its Broadcom-based predecessor\u201d in the iPhone 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1662,1685,1666,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-579694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-iphone","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115574514871841717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}