[SOLVED] My New PC has very bad connection to the internet

[Sweddy_Spagetti]

Hi. I recently got a new PC, I really like it but it originally did not have a WiFi card, and I can't run an ethernet cord where I am. So I bought a TP-Link Wifi Card, but everything seems very slow. The card only runs on 2.4 Ghz WiFi, but that shouldn't be a huge issue. Doing speedtests and downloading things, I seem to get around 10-25 Mbps download speed, but doing a test in the same area on my phone I get about 150+ Mbps. Our plan is 1Gbps, but we don't have any singular device that can really use all of that. I've spent hours now looking for fixed that so far haven't seemed to help me. Any ideas? (I have windows 10 Home, so I can't use gpedit.msc, and I tried to install it from a third party site, and that just didn't work, so probably any solution not involving that.

I've already changed my windows setting to allow downloads from windows, PCs on my local network, and PCs on the internet, and I've changed a couple settings in device manager. And I've reset everything in the command line a couple times.

 

[Nemesia]

What is your full system specs including the PSU brand and model?

What is the exact model of that TP-Link?

 

[DSzymborski]

Hi. I recently got a new PC, I really like it but it originally did not have a WiFi card, and I can't run an ethernet cord where I am. So I bought a TP-Link Wifi Card, but everything seems very slow. The card only runs on 2.4 Ghz WiFi, but that shouldn't be a huge issue. Doing speedtests and downloading things, I seem to get around 10-25 Mbps download speed, but doing a test in the same area on my phone I get about 150+ Mbps. Our plan is 1Gbps, but we don't have any singular device that can really use all of that. I've spent hours now looking for fixed that so far haven't seemed to help me. Any ideas? (I have windows 10 Home, so I can't use gpedit.msc, and I tried to install it from a third party site, and that just didn't work, so probably any solution not involving that.

I've already changed my windows setting to allow downloads from windows, PCs on my local network, and PCs on the internet, and I've changed a couple settings in device manager. And I've reset everything in the command line a couple times.

First things first, how are you measuring download speed? Are you using something like Speedtest or Google or are you looking at your download speeds in things like Steam?

Screenshots would be best, but failing that, making doubly sure you're not mixing MBps and Mbps, which are very different things. Because if you're looking at Xbox or Steam download speeds, you're not looking at Mbps, you're looking at MBps and 10-25 MBps would be consistent with a wireless connection getting somewhere between 80 and 200 Mbps.

 

[Sweddy_Spagetti]

First things first, how are you measuring download speed? Are you using something like Speedtest or Google or are you looking at your download speeds in things like Steam?

Screenshots would be best, but failing that, making doubly sure you're not mixing MBps and Mbps, which are very different things. Because if you're looking at Xbox or Steam download speeds, you're not looking at Mbps, you're looking at MBps and 10-25 MBps would be consistent with a wireless connection getting somewhere between 80 and 200 Mbps.

The Mbps and the MBps I see are consistent with each other. I get 10-25 Mbps on speedtests, but I get around 1-4 MBps in downloads on stuff like steam. I use the speedtest by ookla.

 

[Sweddy_Spagetti]

What is your full system specs including the PSU brand and model?

What is the exact model of that TP-Link?

It's a prebuilt PC that I bought from a previous owner, so I don't know the PSU and Mobo, but this may help:
OMEN by HP Desktop PC 870-2xx.

Intel i5 7400
16 gigs of ram at 2133 MHz
GTX 1060 3GB

The adapter, what I can find is TP-Link Wireless N PCI Express Adapter.
It claims 300 Mbps speed.

 

[Sweddy_Spagetti]

So somehow I fixed the issue. I don't know exactly what I did. I went ahead and messed with drivers some and that didn't seem to do anything at the time, but I came back a few hours later, started a new download and I'm getting speeds in the 30-40 MBps range, which is what I expected to get. Thanks for any help offered!