Hi guys, here's a problem I haven't been able to solve for the last few hours.
So I had a mate's laptop over here, and I was doing some general repair work on it (He'd somehow ****ed his boot config file? :? ) Anyways, so I checked the wifi connection strength to my router before I started doing updates for it, bla bla bla. It had 5 bars and 10 mbps down, (which is my max speed).
Go to my desktop, which is running in the exact same room, hell, even facing the same way that the laptop was, and I get anywhere from 3-6 mbps, and some horrible packet loss occasionally when I play Battlefield 4. I'd love to know how a laptop that cost LESS than my desktop, is somehow able to get a stronger wifi signal to the same router, over the same distance, and through the same number of walls? I mean really.
Running ethernet is not an option, as that would require running a 20m cable under the house, and that's been veto'd by my parents. So I'm stuck with wifi. I'm considering seeing if reinstalling Windows helps, (I need to do it anyway, attempted a slight hack to give myself free windows 10, since my OS is not officially eligible for the upgrade, and that went sideways). But if that doesn't, then why the fek is it doing this?
Cheers,
Luke
Note: The desktop is custom, I built it. Here's the wireless adapter I am using:
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/19577
Note 2: This is not malware related, I've checked it with malwarebytes, among other things, and there's nothing on the system that shouldn't be here.
So I had a mate's laptop over here, and I was doing some general repair work on it (He'd somehow ****ed his boot config file? :? ) Anyways, so I checked the wifi connection strength to my router before I started doing updates for it, bla bla bla. It had 5 bars and 10 mbps down, (which is my max speed).
Go to my desktop, which is running in the exact same room, hell, even facing the same way that the laptop was, and I get anywhere from 3-6 mbps, and some horrible packet loss occasionally when I play Battlefield 4. I'd love to know how a laptop that cost LESS than my desktop, is somehow able to get a stronger wifi signal to the same router, over the same distance, and through the same number of walls? I mean really.
Running ethernet is not an option, as that would require running a 20m cable under the house, and that's been veto'd by my parents. So I'm stuck with wifi. I'm considering seeing if reinstalling Windows helps, (I need to do it anyway, attempted a slight hack to give myself free windows 10, since my OS is not officially eligible for the upgrade, and that went sideways). But if that doesn't, then why the fek is it doing this?
Cheers,
Luke
Note: The desktop is custom, I built it. Here's the wireless adapter I am using:
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/19577
Note 2: This is not malware related, I've checked it with malwarebytes, among other things, and there's nothing on the system that shouldn't be here.
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