Hi! This issue has been extremely frustrating 
and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere, so I decided to make a specific post.
This Christmas I got a new SSD and HDD to replace my aging HDD's that were 300gb> in total storage, and these drives work perfectly and the operating that I installed on the SSD is also functioning perfectly. However once I managed to connect to the internet I thought that my download speeds were subpar at best when compared to my previous speeds, so I ran some checks.
Through ookla speedtest I got rated with a 4.02mb/s download, which is roughly 1/2 or 1/3 of what I remember having with my last set up, which was about 9.5-12mb/s. I then proceeded to test my father's laptop- (also connected on the same network) for an ookla speed test which gave a download speed of 2.0mb/s whilst my mother's net-book-(again, also on the same network) had a download speed of 3.8mb/s. However I would like to note that these are over the wireless range of our router, whilst I am connected through an Ethernet cable.
What I suspect it may be is that when I connected to my router, I wasn't asked for the secure password to connect, so perhaps I am connected to the insecure network that my router provides, which I am told has a inferior bandwidth and download speeds. The strange thing is that in my Network and Sharing center Win7 can only find this network that I have connected to, and not my router, which I remember in my last setup it was connected to my router as I remember seeing the name of my router.
Many thanks, and happy holidays!
and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere, so I decided to make a specific post.This Christmas I got a new SSD and HDD to replace my aging HDD's that were 300gb> in total storage, and these drives work perfectly and the operating that I installed on the SSD is also functioning perfectly. However once I managed to connect to the internet I thought that my download speeds were subpar at best when compared to my previous speeds, so I ran some checks.
Through ookla speedtest I got rated with a 4.02mb/s download, which is roughly 1/2 or 1/3 of what I remember having with my last set up, which was about 9.5-12mb/s. I then proceeded to test my father's laptop- (also connected on the same network) for an ookla speed test which gave a download speed of 2.0mb/s whilst my mother's net-book-(again, also on the same network) had a download speed of 3.8mb/s. However I would like to note that these are over the wireless range of our router, whilst I am connected through an Ethernet cable.
What I suspect it may be is that when I connected to my router, I wasn't asked for the secure password to connect, so perhaps I am connected to the insecure network that my router provides, which I am told has a inferior bandwidth and download speeds. The strange thing is that in my Network and Sharing center Win7 can only find this network that I have connected to, and not my router, which I remember in my last setup it was connected to my router as I remember seeing the name of my router.
Many thanks, and happy holidays!
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