Puzzling home network problem, need help!
Hello,
This is an issue with a computer upstairs in my bedroom. The Modem/Router is downstairs so I am using wifi. The issue is that the wifi is very very very slow and the weird thing is, I went out and bought a 50ft cat5e and its still the same issue! Very slow internet and anything I download it seems like it stops a few seconds after it starts. Another weird thing is that the computer downstairs that is directly plugged into the router has great speeds and works perfectly.
I went into resource manager and I see the network graph hovering around 1Kbps 100Kbps and 1Mbps. I have never seen anything higher. My TP-Link 450 wifi adapter is updated also and full signal strength.
I was think it would be the adapter but since I bought a cat5e and plugged directly into my modem.router im puzzled on what it could be.
I have 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz set to N mode only too with non overlapping channels.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is driving me insane!
Running Windows 7 home for my OS and have a 300Mbps plan with my ISP. On speedtest.net my upload is about 10Mbps and download is around 50Mbps.
I also went to device manager->network adapters->Properites on my wifi adapter->advanced and it shows 802.11b preamble. Does this mean the wifi adapter is running on 802.11b? If so I dont see another option to change this to G or N
Other things I tried.
I have tried going into msconfig and hiding all MS services and then disabling everything else, same with startup. This did nothing also. I also booted in safe mode with networking and same issue. I tested these by downloading random things, JRE 8, google chrome etc. They all freeze downloading after the first second or two. Same with trying to update steam games or overwatch, they take forever.
has anyone had this problem before? If i run wireshark and start to download anything i get a TON of bad tcp packets. I can post a screenshot if anyone needs.
Thanks
