Wifi very inconsistent

[theunicow]

I am currently in college and my internet seems to be a bit of a problem for me now... I always used my ethernet cable for a consistent and strong internet connection but it's recently stopped working for me. I recently realized that my wifi connection is very inconsistent... It will have full bars but load extremely slowly occasionally after a few minutes. I posted about the ethernet problem (http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2345411/ethernet-connects-network-internet-work.html) but I didn't get many responses that helped 😛. The internet is so annoying that I'm just getting very frustrated and impatient... Please help!!! I can barely watch youtube videos without it freezing every 10 minutes!! Nevermind even trying to play online games or downloading stuff.

 

[RealBeast]

I assume that you are using 2.4GHz wireless? Is it your own wireless access point or the University WAP?

You must understand that wireless bandwidth is very limited and in a dorm with everyone watching YouTube and Netflix there is not enough to go around. 4 bars just indicates good signal strength, the number of actual connections in use and the bandwidth hogging applications is the issue.

On the wired connection, try using a different DNS server, which could help. Try the Google public servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) by going into the network control panel, change adapter settings, right click Ethernet adapter, select properties, highlight IPv4 in the white box, click properties and set the DNS to the second choice where you enter your own.

Also run speedtest.net and pingtest.net while wired to get some baseline values once you change the DNS.