{"id":1702,"date":"2025-11-18T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/apples-custom-wi-fi-chip-gives-the-iphone-17-a-notable-boost-according-to-speed-tests\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:37:35","slug":"apples-custom-wi-fi-chip-gives-the-iphone-17-a-notable-boost-according-to-speed-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/apples-custom-wi-fi-chip-gives-the-iphone-17-a-notable-boost-according-to-speed-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s custom Wi-Fi chip gives the iPhone 17 a notable boost, according to speed tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The iPhone 17 Pro in three different colors.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Apple-iphone-17-pro-colors-blue-orange-silver.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ookla has found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/774941\/apple-iphone-17-n1-wi-fi-bluetooth-thread-networking-chip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple\u2019s custom N1 networking chip<\/a> that integrates the Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread radios in the iPhone 17 family \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ookla.com\/articles\/apple-n1-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delivers a clear step-change in real-world Wi-Fi performance<\/a>\u201d when compared to the Broadcom chip used in the iPhone 16 models. In North America, the iPhone 17 family also outperformed flagship Android phones when it came to Wi-Fi download speeds during the same time period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">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=\"has-text-align-none\">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=\"has-text-align-none\">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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ookla has found that Apple\u2019s custom N1 networking chip that integrates the Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread radios in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}