first of all I know nothing about computers!!! Question * its two of us in the house. we have 2 smart tvs, 2 iphones, 2 laptops ..im using a Samsung NP300E5C running windows 10.my internet is connected arris TM1602modem from cabel company a linksys E1000 router..at any given time there could be atleast 3 devices running wifi at one time.. my Samsung np300 the antique takes forever to load up or startup or whaterver its called. my internet speed is 100X10.. whatever that means should I be looking into replacing a router due to the new volume of devices? or is ther a way to upgrade my Samsung? just got married so now there is two people using internet.. could somebody please lend me some honest ideas more info I do have Microsoft and google chrome on this Samsung as well. I may have a bunch of things running bat the same time and not knowing it or to much stuff loaded on the computer... Im not sure that's why im asking on this site it has been very helpful to this beginner thx Bobby G
should i or do i need to upgrade router or is it all together a different problem?
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Are all other devices working at "speed" with only the Samsung NP300E5C being slow?
Could be that the laptop is the root issue slowing the network.
May be trying to update old software, do backups to a non-existent network drive....
If the network performance for all other devices is as expected without the laptop being on and connected then the laptop is likely the source of the problems.
Overall, your "household" (congratulations) should be well served by the present hardware barring some misconfiguration issue or hardware fault.
It may take you some time and effort but on the Samsung, open Task Manager and look around. Do not change anything.
Likewise run Resource Monitor and look around.
Both tools can be accessed by typing their respective names into the "Type here to search" box.
What you are looking for is some software application that is running and using the greater part of one resource or another.
And Windows 10 does have built-in troubleshooters. Run the troubleshooters on the Samsung. The troubleshooters may find and fix something.
Key is to narrow down the source of the problem.
Could be that the laptop is the root issue slowing the network.
May be trying to update old software, do backups to a non-existent network drive....
If the network performance for all other devices is as expected without the laptop being on and connected then the laptop is likely the source of the problems.
Overall, your "household" (congratulations) should be well served by the present hardware barring some misconfiguration issue or hardware fault.
It may take you some time and effort but on the Samsung, open Task Manager and look around. Do not change anything.
Likewise run Resource Monitor and look around.
Both tools can be accessed by typing their respective names into the "Type here to search" box.
What you are looking for is some software application that is running and using the greater part of one resource or another.
And Windows 10 does have built-in troubleshooters. Run the troubleshooters on the Samsung. The troubleshooters may find and fix something.
Key is to narrow down the source of the problem.
If you mean the time it takes to boot from when you power it on that is not related to network.
If you mean web pages load slow that could be a network issue but its hard to say if the problem is the wifi card or the router. Both are using older technology. Upgrading just the router may not help and replacing a wifi nic card in some laptop can be a challenge both from physically doing it and finding cards that are compatible.
I would try the laptop on a ethernet connected cable first. It is the cheapest thing to try and will quickly show if you have a wifi issue or not.
Replacing the router will not by itself solve your problem if the issue is over utilization of the wifi. What you would have to attempt to do is buy a dual band router and then move devices that support the 5g radios to that other connection. It all depends on what devices are using a lot of bandwidth and which support the 2.4g band and which support the 5g band.
If possible hook as much as you can to the router with ethernet cables this reduces the competition for the wifi.
If you mean web pages load slow that could be a network issue but its hard to say if the problem is the wifi card or the router. Both are using older technology. Upgrading just the router may not help and replacing a wifi nic card in some laptop can be a challenge both from physically doing it and finding cards that are compatible.
I would try the laptop on a ethernet connected cable first. It is the cheapest thing to try and will quickly show if you have a wifi issue or not.
Replacing the router will not by itself solve your problem if the issue is over utilization of the wifi. What you would have to attempt to do is buy a dual band router and then move devices that support the 5g radios to that other connection. It all depends on what devices are using a lot of bandwidth and which support the 2.4g band and which support the 5g band.
If possible hook as much as you can to the router with ethernet cables this reduces the competition for the wifi.
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