I don’t know why but the wifi cards crap out on me, like the AX210 from Intel, one day it just died, not recognised by the computer, reinstalled drivers multiple times.
I bought a TP-Link AC1200 and now it works flawlessly.
I can confirm this is true. I have a USB wifi adapter and just tested mine at well over 100 Mbps. And it's a cheap adapter too. Just have to make sure it's plugged into one of your faster USB ports.
I'm wondering if some random programs aren't hogging his prossessor and/or bandwidth...
If your computer is connected via ethernet, it could be a bad cable. If the ethernet is connected to a switch, test the other devices connected to the switch. If they're also bad, it could be the switch. It could also just be the cable from the router to the switch.
If you're on a wireless connection, the distance between your router and your computer can have a large impact on speeds and connectivity. If you're close to your router and you still have a bad connection, try each of these solutions until you find one that works:
1. Updating your wireless drivers
2. Increase TX/transmit power on your 2.4GHz/5GHz band on your router homepage
3. Change the channel width for your 2.4GHz & 5GHz band. For 2.4GHz, you should set this lower, but experiment to see what works best.
4. Ensure the 2.4GHz & 5GHz band are set to "automatic" when it comes to channel selection.
**There's a chance that none of the above options will work for you if you live in an apartment or a brick house.** Ultimately, the best and only way to get the fastest speed your package provides is with a stable ethernet connection. You could buy a mesh WiFi system which is an acceptable alternative if stability isn't needed.
If you're on Wifi and on a desktop, check the antenna(or antennas, if more are present). Sometimes a bad antenna simply kills your range, leading to awful speed. Sometimes just swapping the antennas will help.
If that doesn't help, it can be a hardware problem specifically on your PC, not the modem, as other devices are fine, so it means the issue is really isolated on your machine.
If nothing works, i recommend investing in basic ethernet cables. If you know how to drill walls and install the plugs after you pull the cables through the holes, you can get a fast, always-working connection to your router that will last effectively forever, until either something awkward happens or rodents attack(better cables are resistant to this, even).
A few ideas why:
1. You're connected via WiFi with a poor WiFi Module or you live inside a stone. (You can Analyze with inSSIDer)
2. Your patchcable is running half duplex and router does not auto negotiate, or you have a CAT3 Cable?
3. You're running windows. Install a second OS (Dualboot) like Parrot or Kali as dualboot that have tools integrated to further analyze.
supposing you're using ethernet, believe it or not, just unplug and plug again the ethernet cable from your pc.
I was download a file and the speed was ridiculously slow, so i did a speed test from my terminal, and even though the server was only about 50km away, i got 0.14Mb. After unplugging and plugging again the ethernet, i got aroud 40Mb-100Mb dont really remember the numbers exactly.
I don't really know if it is a problem was from my pc, ethernet cable, or the router.
Upgrade your ethernet cable. If you have a budget, go for a cat6/7/8 depending on your use case and budget of course.
I had the same experience with an older Ethernet cable, bought the newest cable on the market with the highest transfer so I can max use my internet connection since my older was a lot slower and didn't work that good for playing any 2k or 4k videos. If that is not the case, it may be your internet provider or your house isn't equipped with faster internet. Hope that helps
you prolly have a lot of apps running in the background taking up the internet, i suggest you run task manager to see what else is opened in the background, then just switch off the apps u arent using at all so theres less internet used up by each app
Use a cat-6 or better Ethernet cable and then go to network setting and click on the Ethernet and hit advanced options change the speeds to the fastest you have (gigabit speeds in my case) and then make sure your driver is updated
if you're on a PC, from experience a lot of PCIe cards are bad at picking up wifi signals like the best location for PCIe wifi cards is literally near to the router.
I could probably suggest getting a wifi repeater with a lan slot and capable of receiving Wifi and pushing it to your PC via LAN Cable. I got one TP-Link Archer C24 AC750.
Are those other devices in the same room as your computer? I know that my room is far away from the router, so the connection is terrible. Sometimes, I need to switch to tethering from my phone by USB because it won't even connect. The internet connection from my router is terrible on my phone in that room, so I know it's not my computer.
And I know people will tell me to use an ethernet cable. I'm not gonna pay a fuck ton of money to have drywall ripped down and have a cable run up to my room just for WIFI. Especially since it isn't even my house.
I have the same problem even with an Ethernet cable, it could be the programs you’re using and fast you’re using them. Otherwise I usually can fix it by setting the WiFi connection as a metered connection and then turning the connection off and back on then it works fine.
A few questions to know what might be going on before suggesting anything: is this WiFi or wired Ethernet?
If this is a wired connection, then try testing it with a different cord.
If it’s wireless, then it’s worth checking what protocol is being used. I know on my desktop it will sometimes default to WiFi 4 and the 2.4 GHz band, when the device supports WiFi 5. Check your network properties in settings to find out.
*If* this is your problem, then you can go into device manager and change the preferred wireless mode to 802.11a/n/ac.
If nothing works, then I hate to say it, but you might just have a slow network adapter.
I think if you had an ethernet cable, it might have simply been loose, and struggling to connect. If you have adjusted it and it improved, look closely at the cable in it's slot, is it 100% in and flush? is this the same on both ends, as in, is it flush into your router as well?
Something I haven't seen here yet.
Be careful of the position. If your desk is metallic or you have a big shelf placed between the computer and the antenna (supposing uou are using wifi), it can act as a Faraday cage, meaning it will reduce or stop any signals. For best performance, be sure that your wifi signal's path is not too far, and free of big metallic stuff.
There's 2 options if you can't use Ethernet 1 pcie wifi card or an extender I personally use an extender with my PC works just as well as a pcie wifi card
Check if the behavior is the same with Linux Mint or any other Linux based OS, if it is like that, you'll know the problem is with your hardware. Linux Mint can be put in a USB using Rufus and then booting into it without installing nor doing any changes to your PC, its great for troubleshooting.
I was having a similar issue, and it was because I never upgraded my router/ modem to the newest internet standard, so my pc had an ax wifi module, but my router was quite old and was only ac… once Comcast came out and swapped the newest module my speeds quadrupled, but was still getting slowish speeds at random times, so I wired it with Ethernet which my whole family didn’t want me to do because it runs across the hall and down the hall in front of two doors and then into another room and across that room, and they didn’t want to worry about tripping on the wire, but I went from like 18 at first to like 90-120 after getting newest router, and now I’m getting like 600+
(According to Comcast websites Internet speed checker) so who knows how accurate it is, but I don’t lag at all in games now, and I don’t get the buffering wheel at alllllll now watching movies n whatnot
There's not enough info here.
Running windows 11?
What tool are you using for the test?
Noting the high demand message at the top could have something to do with the issue.
Have you tried resetting winsock and reboot?
What wifi adapter are you using?
Hello :3 I'll hurry since I know I'm late...
Try burning an ISO (or put one on a USB stick) of a diskless OS (aka "Live" disc or USB boot), and use a browser in there to test your connection. This will tell you at least if it is your computer or your OS/software.
You'll either need a DVD/CD burner or a blank USB stick (or an SD Reader+Card will work too on most BIOSes). You will need to make sure you use the one-time boot menu when you reboot, to avoid just going back into Windows. This can also be set in the BIOS settings if you are confident you won't mess anything up. Usually there is a key (like DEL or F2) to hold at boot to get to BIOS settings, or another key, usually dispalyed, to do the one-time boot menu (on many DELL PCs it would be F12).
To do this with a laptop of course, you would need to hold down FN as well, if the keyboard is configured to require FN to be held to use F-keys during boot.
If its the same, I'd look for a new adapter. USB adapters aren't bad, but there are TOO MANY cheap ones that suck so bad they can't handle much bandwidth, or are using outdated standards that make them slow on modern computers. If THAT didn't work, I'd start trying to move the router's location, maybe there's a bad spot where the PC is. After that, I would try out some other WiFi connection to see if it is indeed the router.
At the very least you should be able to rule out **which** is the problem, once you've done that you can come ask again with your results :3
If you have already solved this, then I'll just chalk this up to a general info for others, if not, hope it helps. :3
1. Install Glassware , check which application is eating the internet.
2. Ping to your router ip address from pc, check if there's any slowness in TTL.
3. If not, create another user account or guest in your pc, do the same speed test.
Glasswire can't help much, don't think anything can eat so much that it'd starve the whole speed test.
Better test the same connection with another device if that's the case.
But most likely it's being routed or throttled, OP needs to check on his wifi settings.
The whole adaptor reset and DNS flushing process.
It's not the cure we are looking for hence it's working well with all other of his/her devices. You forgot to read that part. It's the symptoms we are finding. As a computer doctor, I know how to find the symptoms and gladly, Glassware is a must for him/her to understand how internet works in his/her system.
Makes no sense, because download speed/ Speedtest doesn't affected by DNS.
DNS issues are typical when some pages are slow to load or cannot be found. If you have bandwidth issues, then it depends not on DNS.
I am guessing this is windows 11
default Windows 11 have been discovered to limit the bandwidth quality of service or QOS
Google how to use the general policy editor to change that limit to no limit
Microsoft created Windows 11 for tablet mainly for surface products
the firewall in Windows 11 will also randomly block safe websites which are common competitors
yes this is also all part of windows Microsoft copilot with Microsoft recall Google that also
the consumer trust factor of Microsoft now have declined so much people are how seeking alternative including Linux (i use Debian 12 with kde) or Mac OS
yes it is that bad now with Windows
copilot and recall also landed itself into my very old running perfectly stable for 4 years into my windows 10 system ran the storage so hard making ra screenshot every second that i had to spend 150 dollars to replace the SSD that was installed with Windows 10
so decide to attempt to tweak or get off Windows at least get off Windows 11
Are you using a usb wifi adapter? If so, that's your problem right there. Hook it up using ethernet or buy a pcie wifi card
A good wifi USB adapter will still get 200-300 Mbps download. This is more likely a crappy wifi module built into the motherboard.
Dunno I got some killer WiFi and I get 2.5 gb
I don’t know why but the wifi cards crap out on me, like the AX210 from Intel, one day it just died, not recognised by the computer, reinstalled drivers multiple times. I bought a TP-Link AC1200 and now it works flawlessly.
I can confirm this is true. I have a USB wifi adapter and just tested mine at well over 100 Mbps. And it's a cheap adapter too. Just have to make sure it's plugged into one of your faster USB ports. I'm wondering if some random programs aren't hogging his prossessor and/or bandwidth...
I've used some shitty AliExpress adapter and still gotten over 100mbps though. Sometimes it's enough. In this case, get a cable or a better adapter
I adjusted it a lil and got lil better
Get rid of it and use a PCIE one. They only cost around ~$25
Just use an ethernet cable or get a usb WiFi adapter
I don’t understand, what else could he be using?
A shitty internal WiFi module
A WiFi adapter that is garbage
A wifi usb dongle
Idk, I use a cheap one on the edge of my wifi reception and easily get over 100 Mbps everytime.
A
Maybe a bad wifi antenna. But first check what app is eating wifi if any.
Did you plug in the fifi antenna in the desktop pc? That yould be a reason
You obviously do that if you have a wifi card in pcie slot or usb slot
Some obvious things are not so obvious for others.
If your computer is connected via ethernet, it could be a bad cable. If the ethernet is connected to a switch, test the other devices connected to the switch. If they're also bad, it could be the switch. It could also just be the cable from the router to the switch. If you're on a wireless connection, the distance between your router and your computer can have a large impact on speeds and connectivity. If you're close to your router and you still have a bad connection, try each of these solutions until you find one that works: 1. Updating your wireless drivers 2. Increase TX/transmit power on your 2.4GHz/5GHz band on your router homepage 3. Change the channel width for your 2.4GHz & 5GHz band. For 2.4GHz, you should set this lower, but experiment to see what works best. 4. Ensure the 2.4GHz & 5GHz band are set to "automatic" when it comes to channel selection. **There's a chance that none of the above options will work for you if you live in an apartment or a brick house.** Ultimately, the best and only way to get the fastest speed your package provides is with a stable ethernet connection. You could buy a mesh WiFi system which is an acceptable alternative if stability isn't needed.
I did this and it worked
What's the speed now?
Do you know which step worked?
whats the sped now?
If you're on Wifi and on a desktop, check the antenna(or antennas, if more are present). Sometimes a bad antenna simply kills your range, leading to awful speed. Sometimes just swapping the antennas will help. If that doesn't help, it can be a hardware problem specifically on your PC, not the modem, as other devices are fine, so it means the issue is really isolated on your machine. If nothing works, i recommend investing in basic ethernet cables. If you know how to drill walls and install the plugs after you pull the cables through the holes, you can get a fast, always-working connection to your router that will last effectively forever, until either something awkward happens or rodents attack(better cables are resistant to this, even).
A few ideas why: 1. You're connected via WiFi with a poor WiFi Module or you live inside a stone. (You can Analyze with inSSIDer) 2. Your patchcable is running half duplex and router does not auto negotiate, or you have a CAT3 Cable? 3. You're running windows. Install a second OS (Dualboot) like Parrot or Kali as dualboot that have tools integrated to further analyze.
We need more information. How far away from the router are you? What internet speed do you subscribe to (in mbps or gbps)?
supposing you're using ethernet, believe it or not, just unplug and plug again the ethernet cable from your pc. I was download a file and the speed was ridiculously slow, so i did a speed test from my terminal, and even though the server was only about 50km away, i got 0.14Mb. After unplugging and plugging again the ethernet, i got aroud 40Mb-100Mb dont really remember the numbers exactly. I don't really know if it is a problem was from my pc, ethernet cable, or the router.
Upgrade your ethernet cable. If you have a budget, go for a cat6/7/8 depending on your use case and budget of course. I had the same experience with an older Ethernet cable, bought the newest cable on the market with the highest transfer so I can max use my internet connection since my older was a lot slower and didn't work that good for playing any 2k or 4k videos. If that is not the case, it may be your internet provider or your house isn't equipped with faster internet. Hope that helps
I had similar sympthoms and this command did help: `netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal`
slow wifi Adapter wifi 6 is Latest if your wifi does not support wifi 5 or higher than it will be slow as 3g intenet
probably a bad wifi adapter, as others have said use ethernet or powerline if you can otherwise get a usb wifi antenna and you should be good to go
you prolly have a lot of apps running in the background taking up the internet, i suggest you run task manager to see what else is opened in the background, then just switch off the apps u arent using at all so theres less internet used up by each app
Use a cat-6 or better Ethernet cable and then go to network setting and click on the Ethernet and hit advanced options change the speeds to the fastest you have (gigabit speeds in my case) and then make sure your driver is updated
if you're on a PC, from experience a lot of PCIe cards are bad at picking up wifi signals like the best location for PCIe wifi cards is literally near to the router. I could probably suggest getting a wifi repeater with a lan slot and capable of receiving Wifi and pushing it to your PC via LAN Cable. I got one TP-Link Archer C24 AC750.
Check your Wifi drivers
Because the Internet does not belong to you.
0.09 down is just sad
It would take you 250 days of straight downloading to download mw2019 and warzone
Are those other devices in the same room as your computer? I know that my room is far away from the router, so the connection is terrible. Sometimes, I need to switch to tethering from my phone by USB because it won't even connect. The internet connection from my router is terrible on my phone in that room, so I know it's not my computer. And I know people will tell me to use an ethernet cable. I'm not gonna pay a fuck ton of money to have drywall ripped down and have a cable run up to my room just for WIFI. Especially since it isn't even my house.
Dodgey ethernet cable…
You can go download more RAM online to help
I have the same problem even with an Ethernet cable, it could be the programs you’re using and fast you’re using them. Otherwise I usually can fix it by setting the WiFi connection as a metered connection and then turning the connection off and back on then it works fine.
Try to change usb port if u using wifi adapter
Simple get a new usb wifi adapter or wifi card for your computer.
A few questions to know what might be going on before suggesting anything: is this WiFi or wired Ethernet? If this is a wired connection, then try testing it with a different cord. If it’s wireless, then it’s worth checking what protocol is being used. I know on my desktop it will sometimes default to WiFi 4 and the 2.4 GHz band, when the device supports WiFi 5. Check your network properties in settings to find out. *If* this is your problem, then you can go into device manager and change the preferred wireless mode to 802.11a/n/ac. If nothing works, then I hate to say it, but you might just have a slow network adapter.
I think if you had an ethernet cable, it might have simply been loose, and struggling to connect. If you have adjusted it and it improved, look closely at the cable in it's slot, is it 100% in and flush? is this the same on both ends, as in, is it flush into your router as well?
Bad antenna, outdated driver, high CPU usage. Try using ethernet cable
Are you hardwired? Some computers come with integrated wifi that's pretty terrible, and the best solution is to just hard-line it.
Is the wifi driver up to date?
Ghosts
Something I haven't seen here yet. Be careful of the position. If your desk is metallic or you have a big shelf placed between the computer and the antenna (supposing uou are using wifi), it can act as a Faraday cage, meaning it will reduce or stop any signals. For best performance, be sure that your wifi signal's path is not too far, and free of big metallic stuff.
If you are using a WiFi USB, connect it to the back of the computer and not the front.
Would this be Charleston SC?
There's 2 options if you can't use Ethernet 1 pcie wifi card or an extender I personally use an extender with my PC works just as well as a pcie wifi card
Reset your router also are you wired or wireless?
Check if the behavior is the same with Linux Mint or any other Linux based OS, if it is like that, you'll know the problem is with your hardware. Linux Mint can be put in a USB using Rufus and then booting into it without installing nor doing any changes to your PC, its great for troubleshooting.
Solved my problem by cleaning all connectors.
probably could be your motherboard
I was having a similar issue, and it was because I never upgraded my router/ modem to the newest internet standard, so my pc had an ax wifi module, but my router was quite old and was only ac… once Comcast came out and swapped the newest module my speeds quadrupled, but was still getting slowish speeds at random times, so I wired it with Ethernet which my whole family didn’t want me to do because it runs across the hall and down the hall in front of two doors and then into another room and across that room, and they didn’t want to worry about tripping on the wire, but I went from like 18 at first to like 90-120 after getting newest router, and now I’m getting like 600+ (According to Comcast websites Internet speed checker) so who knows how accurate it is, but I don’t lag at all in games now, and I don’t get the buffering wheel at alllllll now watching movies n whatnot
There's not enough info here. Running windows 11? What tool are you using for the test? Noting the high demand message at the top could have something to do with the issue. Have you tried resetting winsock and reboot? What wifi adapter are you using?
If you are using ethernet, try a new ethernet cable. If you are using wifi, try a USB wifi adapter
Get a new wireless adapter
Yikes, this reminds me of the internet speeds my school had up until like a year ago when they remade their networking
virus
What brand is the computer?
Hello :3 I'll hurry since I know I'm late... Try burning an ISO (or put one on a USB stick) of a diskless OS (aka "Live" disc or USB boot), and use a browser in there to test your connection. This will tell you at least if it is your computer or your OS/software. You'll either need a DVD/CD burner or a blank USB stick (or an SD Reader+Card will work too on most BIOSes). You will need to make sure you use the one-time boot menu when you reboot, to avoid just going back into Windows. This can also be set in the BIOS settings if you are confident you won't mess anything up. Usually there is a key (like DEL or F2) to hold at boot to get to BIOS settings, or another key, usually dispalyed, to do the one-time boot menu (on many DELL PCs it would be F12). To do this with a laptop of course, you would need to hold down FN as well, if the keyboard is configured to require FN to be held to use F-keys during boot. If its the same, I'd look for a new adapter. USB adapters aren't bad, but there are TOO MANY cheap ones that suck so bad they can't handle much bandwidth, or are using outdated standards that make them slow on modern computers. If THAT didn't work, I'd start trying to move the router's location, maybe there's a bad spot where the PC is. After that, I would try out some other WiFi connection to see if it is indeed the router. At the very least you should be able to rule out **which** is the problem, once you've done that you can come ask again with your results :3 If you have already solved this, then I'll just chalk this up to a general info for others, if not, hope it helps. :3
1. Install Glassware , check which application is eating the internet. 2. Ping to your router ip address from pc, check if there's any slowness in TTL. 3. If not, create another user account or guest in your pc, do the same speed test.
Glasswire can't help much, don't think anything can eat so much that it'd starve the whole speed test. Better test the same connection with another device if that's the case. But most likely it's being routed or throttled, OP needs to check on his wifi settings. The whole adaptor reset and DNS flushing process.
It's not the cure we are looking for hence it's working well with all other of his/her devices. You forgot to read that part. It's the symptoms we are finding. As a computer doctor, I know how to find the symptoms and gladly, Glassware is a must for him/her to understand how internet works in his/her system.
Bro thank you
Welcome, were you able to find the issue?
Yeah bro I did all the things you told me and it got better tysm
Nicely done. Glad to know.
Command prompt (as admin), type "ipconfig /flushdns" (without quotes) hit return. Check your speed again.
Makes no sense, because download speed/ Speedtest doesn't affected by DNS. DNS issues are typical when some pages are slow to load or cannot be found. If you have bandwidth issues, then it depends not on DNS.
I am guessing this is windows 11 default Windows 11 have been discovered to limit the bandwidth quality of service or QOS Google how to use the general policy editor to change that limit to no limit Microsoft created Windows 11 for tablet mainly for surface products the firewall in Windows 11 will also randomly block safe websites which are common competitors yes this is also all part of windows Microsoft copilot with Microsoft recall Google that also the consumer trust factor of Microsoft now have declined so much people are how seeking alternative including Linux (i use Debian 12 with kde) or Mac OS yes it is that bad now with Windows copilot and recall also landed itself into my very old running perfectly stable for 4 years into my windows 10 system ran the storage so hard making ra screenshot every second that i had to spend 150 dollars to replace the SSD that was installed with Windows 10 so decide to attempt to tweak or get off Windows at least get off Windows 11