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Thanks for all the input! I agree that i probably wont need more than an i3, So i'll try to stick around that, I'm also not worried abour ram and storage space, the storage doesnt need to be particularly fast and both are easily upgradable. I think at this point now that i've got a good idea I'm going to swing by best buy and frys and try to get hands on with a few dells, lenovos, acers and whatever else piques my interest there. Thanks a lot for the advice!

Is there any reason why a lot of thinkpads are downgraded from windows 10 to windows 7? Are Idea pads as durable as a regular consumer laptop or would i still be better off than say a toshiba satellite or (insert other common consumer laptop here) I would assume that any lenovo since they are known for a great keyboard and build quality would be better than most other consumer laptops. I mentioned satellite since that one fell apart (literally) after 3 years of of use, although i did put that one through a lot more than i intend to now.

Thanks for the quick input guys! What do you think of something like this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7HS5081283

I'm looking for a cheap laptop with a better build quality, I'm trying to stay under 500 dollars. I have a dedicated gaming rig i just need something i can take to class and hackathons and stuff like that, so it definitely does not need a dedicated graphics card. My requirements in order go along the lines of 1. build quality 2. processor speeds 3. battery life 4. screen quality I need build quality since it would be going in and out of my backpack around 2x a day and opened and closed even more so it needs to not fall apart. Having a long battery life is just plain convenient for my use case. Processor speeds would help with 2 things, processing larger workloads for coding purposes, and i would like to be able to use steam in home streaming on it. I'm sure that anything that can handle steam in home streaming would be fast enough though. Also a 15 in would be nice purely so i can i get a larger typing area in the keyboard. But if there are 13 in with significantly better build quality i can make that sacrifice. My thought process for maybe getting a better build quality in this price range is that you can get a good build quality at 400 more dollars with a dedicated gpu, so there must be some gem around this price range. I'm willing to go up in price if i need to, since i'm going to be using this for awhile I'm willing to spend a little more, its just easy for me to fall into the "its just 50 dollars more for this and then 100 more for this and only 80 dollars more for this" trap. Thanks for any advice, i really appreciate it.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me with this, i really appreciate it. The internet slows down just for the ethernet ports on the main router. the wifi works fine and the ethernet ports on the second router work fine. Edit: and yeah without the new router plugged in, the main router ethernet works fine.

Nope, i wish there were a custom firmware for the main router so i could see if there was anything leeching on the network, but mostly just phones and tablets on the network.

That's what i dont understand, over wifi on the 2.4 i get like 30 down, plugged in alone without the other router i get 100 down, plugged in with the other router i get 5 down.

It's a 1000 Mb/s connection

The main router is the cisco, I'm just using speedtest but the issues show up in streaming and downloading also. I dont know where to check the status, I've dug around in the router homepage but i can't find any info on it. It looks like i can try running a script to measure it though so I'm going to try that and see what it comes up with.

The cables are fine, the interesting thing is that if i plug into the access point then i get 100 down again, but thats impractical for this setup, I've tried switching the ports around but that didn't make a difference. I don't think it has status lights for 10/100/1000

So I'm using a TP link WDR3500 as an access point wired into a cisco DPC3941T from xfinity, and the network works fine but the ethernet ports on the main router went from about 100mb/s to 5mb/s. What might be causing this?Thanks for any suggestions