Its time to roll up the shirt-sleeves and dive back into my favorite topic: wireless networking.
This week, Lifehacker enthusiastGarethwrites:
I am a teacher in a lockdown working from home.
My personal laptop has such incredibly inconsistent speeds I could not use it to teach.
Luckily work have provided me with a different laptop which works fine.
My laptop is fairly new and I have never had issues with wifi before with it.
My current package is 125mb download and 10mb upload speeds.
Yet some tests regularly coming in under 5mb.
On top of this my ps4 is barely usable.
Speeds of under 5mb are the norm.
Sometimes less than 1mb.
If you have any suggestions i would be very happy to hear then.
The speeds seem to be available in the router as other devices are fine.
I know the ps4 only has 2.4ghz but surely that doesnt limit the speeds as dramatically as it is?
modernize your routers firmware.
Switch to Ethernet where possible, which should improve your connection.
And after that, I might even recommend a general factory reset of your router.
Have you tried using a different Ethernet cable, just in case?
Generally speaking, I dont like using wireless extenders if I can avoid them.
However, this is really just a band-aid.
If everything Ive suggested doesnt work, I really think its time to go shopping for a new router.
Routers mess up for the weirdest reasons.
