Issues with wireless on a single computer

Sean_83

Commendable
Aug 24, 2016
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Hello, so I have been having difficulties with the wireless on my desktop. The issue the computer is having is that while it the computer does have wifi, speeds can suddenly come to a crawl with download speeds around 0.5 Mbps according to speedtest. Along with this when I am getting functional download speeds they only really every top off around 18 Mbps when I should be getting near 30. All, the other devices and computers on my network are having no wireless issues and are pulling in download speeds of 26-32 Mbps. So, far I haven't been able to figure out why this is occurring.

The computer's OS is Windows 10 and the Wifi Adapter im using is a Netgear a6200.

I have checked:
The computer gets perfectly good download speeds with an Ethernet cable.
I have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them for the adapter.
I have purchased a new adapter and still had the same issues with the new adapter as the old one.
I have taken the Netgear adapter and tested it on other laptops which it functions normally on them with download speeds around 24 Mbps.
I have reinstalled Windows 10 and the problem still persist.
I have turned off all my antivirus and firewall on the computer as well.
When i try pinging sites or my home router i have giant spikes of ping. For example, pinging my home router's ip would give me 5 ms, 5 ms, 26 ms, 5 ms, 5 ms, 1 ms, 120 ms, etc.

So, at the moment I am a little lost with what to try next any help would be much appreciated.
 
Solution
Go to the adapter's entry in device manager. Dbl click on it.

If there's an advanced tab , and a 2.4 or 5 ghz option, change it to the channels that are available in the modem (it'll have like #1-13 or something here for 2.4)

See if it makes a diff. Altho it may also depend if youre using 2.4 what else is near (in the house) thats 2.4 ghz?

Sean_83

Commendable
Aug 24, 2016
3
0
1,510
Yeah its windows firewall and I got the driver from the netgear site its latest stable for Windows 10. The modem isn't ac but I've had this adapter for almost three years now and this is the first time this has happened anyways my netgear genie says the adapter is connecting via mode n. I tried changing my modem to a single channel with few other networks on it but that didn't really help my computer boosted the signal for my laptops though. Just, tried broadcasting at 5 instead of 2.4 still running slow.
 
Go to the adapter's entry in device manager. Dbl click on it.

If there's an advanced tab , and a 2.4 or 5 ghz option, change it to the channels that are available in the modem (it'll have like #1-13 or something here for 2.4)

See if it makes a diff. Altho it may also depend if youre using 2.4 what else is near (in the house) thats 2.4 ghz?
 
Solution

Sean_83

Commendable
Aug 24, 2016
3
0
1,510
Alright i think that helped it definitely boosted the signal for the moment. The download speed is still a little jerky so will wait and see if it slows down again. Thanks for the help.
 

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