- Aug 22, 2014
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Hey guys, I've been creating a lot of threads for the past months, but I really need answer to my questions. So I have built a computer with an i5 4590, MSI H81m-e33, a EVGA gtx 960, in a Corsair 100r case. Now everything is perfect, performance on games, programs, but surfing the web and downloading ANYTHING is a living hell. I use a NETGEAR 600n dualband Wi-Fi Network adapter that my parents have been using for a year or 2 now on their 1 core prebuilt 2 GB RAM AMD PC, and it has been performing well on its old computer and really bad on mine.
I have done a little research on this topic since I started experiencing this problem (which I have to do on my phone/ipad because of thos terrible wifi), and what I basically got was that it could be caused by obstacles and interferance with other devices. What I've done is basically rearrange the USB ports on the back of PC so that the adapter is as isolated and breathable as possible. It worked the first time (and by that I mean I can load a page in under 20 seconds and I can download a program in around 45 minutes), but then it kind of just stops slows down really badly for 2 minutes then acts normally for like 30 seconds. Also, mind you I cannot use the front USB ports on my case because the case actually got usb 3.0 connectors while my motherboard only has usb 2.0 header ports.
I honestly don't know what's causing it since I've been using a laptop in this room for the past 2 years and it has faster internet speed than my desktop computer. Also if it helps solve this issue, my room is pretty compact. It's not messy at all in my opinion, but things are close together. The PC however is in a corner, but not entirely trapped with about a foot and a half away from the wall from one side and a few centimeters away from the other wall. I'm also directly above the room from where the router sits. I have thought about wired ethernet connection, but I don't have a ethernet jack in my room or a free ethernet port on our router. Also the closest thing I've installed so far that even might involve malicious viruses are libreoffice, GIMP and Winrar which are all on my old laptop and also I use Avast anti-virus software. All drivers are all up to date from what I know with only 12 optional Windows Updates that I can't even install because of the slow internet speeds.
Maybe it's faulty hardware, I don't know since everything I have is new besides the GPU, monitor, mouse and the wireless adapter which I've said has been working fine before I plugged it into the new PC. I know this has been really long, but I just want to use my PC for what I intended it to be, a PC that can run the games and software I use really well and browse the internet nearly flawlessly.
*I have ran a recent test on speedtest.net where my laptop has a 25 Mbps download speed and the desktop had around a 49 Mbps, but shortly after, I browsed some websites like Google and Facebook and couldn't even load those pages. Then I updated the drivers and it is up to date, and at first it was at around 5.5 Mbps on the Netgear Genie, then it went straight up to the 50-80 range, then I wanted to see if it was fixed so I watched a 1080p, 60 fps video on Youtube and it gradually just lowered back down to 5.5 Mbps...
Network Adapter: Netgear n600 WNDA3100v2
I have done a little research on this topic since I started experiencing this problem (which I have to do on my phone/ipad because of thos terrible wifi), and what I basically got was that it could be caused by obstacles and interferance with other devices. What I've done is basically rearrange the USB ports on the back of PC so that the adapter is as isolated and breathable as possible. It worked the first time (and by that I mean I can load a page in under 20 seconds and I can download a program in around 45 minutes), but then it kind of just stops slows down really badly for 2 minutes then acts normally for like 30 seconds. Also, mind you I cannot use the front USB ports on my case because the case actually got usb 3.0 connectors while my motherboard only has usb 2.0 header ports.
I honestly don't know what's causing it since I've been using a laptop in this room for the past 2 years and it has faster internet speed than my desktop computer. Also if it helps solve this issue, my room is pretty compact. It's not messy at all in my opinion, but things are close together. The PC however is in a corner, but not entirely trapped with about a foot and a half away from the wall from one side and a few centimeters away from the other wall. I'm also directly above the room from where the router sits. I have thought about wired ethernet connection, but I don't have a ethernet jack in my room or a free ethernet port on our router. Also the closest thing I've installed so far that even might involve malicious viruses are libreoffice, GIMP and Winrar which are all on my old laptop and also I use Avast anti-virus software. All drivers are all up to date from what I know with only 12 optional Windows Updates that I can't even install because of the slow internet speeds.
Maybe it's faulty hardware, I don't know since everything I have is new besides the GPU, monitor, mouse and the wireless adapter which I've said has been working fine before I plugged it into the new PC. I know this has been really long, but I just want to use my PC for what I intended it to be, a PC that can run the games and software I use really well and browse the internet nearly flawlessly.
*I have ran a recent test on speedtest.net where my laptop has a 25 Mbps download speed and the desktop had around a 49 Mbps, but shortly after, I browsed some websites like Google and Facebook and couldn't even load those pages. Then I updated the drivers and it is up to date, and at first it was at around 5.5 Mbps on the Netgear Genie, then it went straight up to the 50-80 range, then I wanted to see if it was fixed so I watched a 1080p, 60 fps video on Youtube and it gradually just lowered back down to 5.5 Mbps...
Network Adapter: Netgear n600 WNDA3100v2
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