Hi guys,
Last year I purchased a cheap wireless adapter for my PC from eBay which had both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz capabilities. It has been working brilliantly for months on the 5Ghz band and I have been getting the normal speeds of around 70Mb down.
However I have noticed just lately that my internet seemed slower than usual and was sometimes struggling to load web pages. I was doing some ping tests last night, both to the router and to Google and both were giving regular intermittent timeouts, ranging from 5 to 10 seconds. After doing some speed tests I was only getting around 23Mb down also. So I decided to swap the wireless adapter as I had a spare laying around, and the exact same thing was happening.
I have done some more ping tests this morning with the original wireless adapter and it no longer seems to be dropping however the speeds are significantly slower than I mentioned before, in terms of download speeds I am still only getting around 25Mb down instead of the usual 70mb.
I have done a speed test on my phone from the same location as my PC and this is getting the usual 70mb. I also did a ping test on it along with when my PC ping test was timing out and it didn't drop a beat.
Please could you help me as to why all of a sudden the speeds seem to be slower than they have before?
Thanks!
Last year I purchased a cheap wireless adapter for my PC from eBay which had both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz capabilities. It has been working brilliantly for months on the 5Ghz band and I have been getting the normal speeds of around 70Mb down.
However I have noticed just lately that my internet seemed slower than usual and was sometimes struggling to load web pages. I was doing some ping tests last night, both to the router and to Google and both were giving regular intermittent timeouts, ranging from 5 to 10 seconds. After doing some speed tests I was only getting around 23Mb down also. So I decided to swap the wireless adapter as I had a spare laying around, and the exact same thing was happening.
I have done some more ping tests this morning with the original wireless adapter and it no longer seems to be dropping however the speeds are significantly slower than I mentioned before, in terms of download speeds I am still only getting around 25Mb down instead of the usual 70mb.
I have done a speed test on my phone from the same location as my PC and this is getting the usual 70mb. I also did a ping test on it along with when my PC ping test was timing out and it didn't drop a beat.
Please could you help me as to why all of a sudden the speeds seem to be slower than they have before?
Thanks!