Very bad WiFi over one room

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Deskchair

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Hi,

I just moved. Due to layout of my new place I had to put a WiFi card in my desktop to connect to internet. For some reason my WiFi is MUCH MUCH slower than it should be. I have 250 Mbit/s optic fiber connection.

Here is a picture of the room layout (units are in meters).Link

Router that my ISP gave me is Huawei EchoLife HG8245H. They say it can support 80-ish Mbit/s over WiFi. To test I used my MackBook Pro 2015. I get 80Mbit/s next to it and halfway through the room. At my PC I get about 60 Mbit/s.

My ISP suggested to use my own router to improve WiFi. I hooked up my girlfriend's old TP-LINK 150Mbps Wireless N Router. That one gives about 35 Mbit/s across the room. It is less but at least stable.

Now my desktop has TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 wireless card. If i Connect to TP Link router I get about 2 Mbit/s and If I connect to Huawei box I struggle even to connect to speedtest.net...

I am not hail bent on getting full 250 Mbit/s - I know it is just wireless. But I would like to get at least 100 Mbit/s and decent ping in games.

Last resort would be to get get a contractor to pull the cable across the room. But since this is a rental apartment I am not keen on that.

Any suggestions? I am considering going and buying a big-ass router in hopes it would help.
 
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With that many networks in small space it is likely to cause a slow down but it is odd that the signal decreases in quality so rapidly, it may be worth you trying one of those power ling adapters such as these https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-PA4010KIT-V1-20-Powerline-Configuration-UK/dp/B01BECPIMC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477512731&sr=8-1&keywords=wireless+powerline+adaptor

However there effectiveness depends on the building wiring, still cheaper than a new decent router and paying a contractor so may be worth a shot.
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muddyparrot

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Are there any electronics or wireless phones etc. near the router or between the pc and router as this can cause interference, failing that have you tried switching frequencies perhaps the one you are using now is saturated.
 
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Deskchair

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Huawei and TP LInk routers are next to each other. Including all the neighbors I see about 9 WiFi networks.

I wanted to switch to 5GHz WiFi but It seems that the TP-LINK router doesn't support it.
 
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muddyparrot

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With that many networks in small space it is likely to cause a slow down but it is odd that the signal decreases in quality so rapidly, it may be worth you trying one of those power ling adapters such as these https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-PA4010KIT-V1-20-Powerline-Configuration-UK/dp/B01BECPIMC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477512731&sr=8-1&keywords=wireless+powerline+adaptor

However there effectiveness depends on the building wiring, still cheaper than a new decent router and paying a contractor so may be worth a shot.
 
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