I just got home from college about two or three weeks ago, and I've been having a few problems with my desktop computer. Foolishly deceiving myself into believing that they'd all been fixed, I've run into what seems to be the final, yet frustratingly insurmountable barrier yet: WiFi. My mom's apartment is fortunate enough to be supplied with Google Fiber, and every once in a blue moon, I'll catch glimpses of its raw power. It is amazing. The setup I'm working with now is with a router, wifi range extender, and a brand new PCE-N53 Wireless-N600 card. The reason I bought a new card was because I figured something must be wrong with my extender (which I had purchased because I needed something close to plug into with an ethernet cable), so I thought wireless would be the way to go. On one hand, my plan worked. I can use google chrome and visit web pages at above-average speeds. On the other hand, if I try opening Steam, GOG Galaxy, or (sometimes) Spotify, my internet reverts to near-nothingness.
Speed tests say I'm running at about .24 download speed and .10 upload, while I'm supposedly getting full service from my router (it should be noted that I can bounce between my router and extender at will, but neither seem to have any effect on connection either way, so I think my extender might actually be useless). Other computers in my house seem to be working fine, and there was a short period (about an afternoon), where my mom was watching Netflix in one room, I was browsing the web, and The Witcher 3 was downloading at the speed of LIGHT on GOG Galaxy. I've found through trial and error that if a I open GOG Galaxy or Steam when a download is present, my internet flunks out.
I'm honestly not very computer-savvy, but I would be sooooo grateful if you Hardware Heads could help me out of this abysmal pit of WiFi despair.
Speed tests say I'm running at about .24 download speed and .10 upload, while I'm supposedly getting full service from my router (it should be noted that I can bounce between my router and extender at will, but neither seem to have any effect on connection either way, so I think my extender might actually be useless). Other computers in my house seem to be working fine, and there was a short period (about an afternoon), where my mom was watching Netflix in one room, I was browsing the web, and The Witcher 3 was downloading at the speed of LIGHT on GOG Galaxy. I've found through trial and error that if a I open GOG Galaxy or Steam when a download is present, my internet flunks out.
I'm honestly not very computer-savvy, but I would be sooooo grateful if you Hardware Heads could help me out of this abysmal pit of WiFi despair.
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