Why is my laptop speed lower than my brothers laptop?

miniuzy

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We have moved houses recently and previously we had similar maybe 1-2mbps differences when we were on virgin media now we are on sky and have fibre pro but he is getting speeds of 40 mbps and iam stuck at 5 the uploads on mine are slightly higher than his but apart from that my downloads are so much lower, my laptop is pretty new i bought it 1 and half years ago and his is about the same age. My laptop used to get much higher speeds than my phone with virgin about 10mbps but now i get like 5x lower when my phone gets 25mbps i need to find out why my laptop has such low speeds i dont have any viruses i have malwarebytes pro and have ran a scan very recently i mainly just play league on laptop and browse the net
 
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When both wired, yours gets much lower speeds, both from speedtest.net to the same server?

I'd suspect drivers. Try reinstalling the LAN and WiFi drivers.

miniuzy

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Yeh i tried both speedtests in exactly the same position with and as close to the router as possible i also tried a wired connection from mine and it there was probably 1% improvement
 

USAFRet

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When both wired, yours gets much lower speeds, both from speedtest.net to the same server?

I'd suspect drivers. Try reinstalling the LAN and WiFi drivers.
 
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miniuzy

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How do i do that sorry for being dumb...also something weird occured i did speedtest two times after i broke my fast and boom 35mbps i was really happy then i thought let me tried it wired connection and i got 2mbps and after that it didnt go back up why was i such an idiot >.>

 

miniuzy

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wait no it worked but after an hour its back to 5mbps? also when i did it i got a whopping 49mbps! but its gone back down to the original one i have a feeling it may not be the wireless driver now