Homebuilt PC getting 1/3 the internet speed of laptop
I have an internet connection of 150 mbps down.
My work laptop is getting about 140 mbps according to speedtests, but my homebuilt desktop is only getting 40-50.
They are right next to each other in the same room.
I'm using two different network adapters and getting the same results.
one of them is this
and the other is something along the lines of this I bought it several years ago.
Could anything other than my wifi adapter bottleneck my download speeds?
Posted Sep 29, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC
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The laptop has the USB adapter, right? It's dual-band and has a lot more bandwidth than the 300Mbps PCIe one.
no the laptop has it's own built in wifi card.
The usb adapter is new and I was hoping it would solve the low DL speeds that I assumed were from the old PCIe card.
Maybe I worded this poorly.
The desktop has the old PCIe card and was getting low speeds so I bought the new USB adapter. it also gets the low speeds.
My laptop is completely separate and is about a year old and gets ~145 mbps.