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Whelp, after all this, I caved and just running cat6 tomorrow I dont even care anymore. LETS DO THIS!!! BRAND NEW HOUSE, WALLS GETTING DEMO'D!!! Anyways. Thanks for all the help guys. I appreciate you guys so much.

I think I might just move it like you said and might have to relinquish the fact that wifi will just suck other than if I somehow tear up carpet and run ethernet. Ugh

@problemsolver heres a video of the NAS file transfer while on WIFI and fluctuation of it. video.mp4

Hi again. Sorry if I mislead you saying I cant use ethernet on this comp. I can just run a cable rudimentary like through the hall but not something that could remain perminant. I did a speedtest with and without NAS connected and it didnt seem to make a difference at all. The speedtest with NAS on is image 1 with a download spd of 13.7MBPS. Without NAS on its image 2 with a download speed of 10.0MBPS. I then plugged the comp into ethernet and redid that test with NAS on and off and got image 3 (130MPBS down) and image 4 (116MBPS) with the NAS off. Random Aside: when done testing the computer in question I took ethernet cable back to comp its usually plugged into and it could only muster a measely 30mbps down at 5mbps up. The discrepancy seems weird since its the same cable and both are win10 desktop PCs. My conclustion is that NAS didnt effect it being on WIFI or on Ethernet. It also concluded that Ethernet is a hell of a lot quicker than WIFI. I did as you said and downloaded a 1gig file to nas. I then copied it from the NAS to computer over WIFI which took 7 minutes and at an avg speed id say of 3.5mb/s down to a max of 4mbps and then down to 70kbps and sometimes dont to nothing. Constant fluctuation from the extreme fast of 4mbps the the extreme slow. The chart looks somehwat smooth but from second to sec it kept doing a sinusuisdal wave from fast to slow. I then afterword copied the same 1gig file over and it took 15 seconds at 98mb/s. Today Starlink as working well and all these tests took place immediately after one another. To speak to the later points in your message I dont know how to check if im using 2.4 or 5g? Router and NAS are plugged into a surge protector I could bypass and test again without? With all the new info how are you leaning now. Computer or Router as the issue? I cant make heads or tails of it.

Brand new house built a year ago with no one around (live in the sticks). Just trying to come up with ways it could be interferance. Because its not a "smart home". No Nest thermostat or wireless cameras... Im just not coming up with anything that could interfere other than the Starlink Router thats on and operational in the Shop about 60ish ft from the house. But that shops all metal and basically a faraday cage which is why it has its own router so internet works inside. Yes you can get some signal from it outside but not ever where my phone/computer is. But im willing to chase the interferance angle if theres anytthing you can think of that I missed. I do have a simple NAS plugged into the router made of a raspberry pi and a harddrive running OMV. Interferance issue ruled out (at least in my head) I ran the speedtest on my phone in same location as computer in question. I need to preface results ahead because somehow ther internet is TERRIBLE across the board tonight and usually numbers arent anywhere near this bad. Also numbers are averaged over a couple hours and 5 tests each device. 1)iphone-Tonight I only got 11-30mbps (depending on when I tested) down on my phone with 73ms latency and 15ms jitter and 2% packetloss. 2)computer in question- picture attached with asus WIFI card. (horrid speed but it was also doing 15-30mbps tests) 3)different computer- hooked up to router with ethernet CAT6 cable to router- 30 mbps down 9 up 37ms latency 16ms jitter 1% packetloss. That computer only ever tops out at 60-80mbps down on the best of days and in the middle of the night when internets good. Tried phone right beside router and it made no difference than when it was right beside windows 10 PC. Rebooting router did not much of anything. 11 connected most not in use. Between 3-6 at any one time. In regards to your 4 bulleted questions. Tonight is really not a fair test at all because when I usually run these speedtest I dont get any packetloss ever. And speeds arent this bad. So tonight im going to say its starlink. I am gonna have to come to the conclusion it effects both wireless and wired although sometimes phone can far outshine everything else. Why is one device so fast which tells me its not ALWAYS starlink's fault. I can pull fast speeds. Which doesnt leave me able to point at any one thing. I dont mind getting a new asus router to test out the router theory but ive already gone down this rabbithole trying to do that about a year ago and it didnt seem to improve anything at all. Its hard to keep from conflating the strange nature of my PC crashing/freezing with overall shitty speeds. Godspeed problemsolver. Love you taking the time. You're tops mate.

I tried the safemode endeavors again. And did as you said although it was already enabled but with a yellow caution triangle. I googled and googled others' issues with trying to use wifi when in safemode with networking and tried all the work arounds like trying to do it before typing in your pin to login and also to go change settings in services.msc for WLAN to startup. Nothing helped. Still couldnt access wifi in safemode. People were saying most likely a badly coded wifi card driver that wont let it work on safemode. So I then just rebooted normally and tried the first command you talk about to keep things moving along the troubleshooting order which did nothing to boost speeds. I then did second command and it read out: No component store corruption detected. The operation completed successfully. The old WIFI adapter is just a USB one and has been unplugged through this whole troubleshoot process with you. The wifi icon/freezing problem hasnt occured yet on the asus card but it happens super sporadically sometimes not for a month or so. The speed issue persists when I run the USB WIFI extender instead of the ASUS wifi card. It seems no matter what WIFI device I use I have slow speeds... UGH To make this all a bit more exciting for you all the speed tests I was doing on my comp were 15-25MBPS and my phone was trumping them. Now for fun I tried my phone right beside the computer again and it got a terrible 7MBPS. Almost wondering if its router related?????

Thanks for the suggestions. Can confirm driver is correct. Here are my results for the Powershell ping command after doing the netowrk stack command you mention. I then rebooted in safemode with networking like you said but it simply wouldnt allow me to connect or find a network. When I'd click on the little globe in the system tray no networks would show, when id then click on network settings nothing showed, not even the option for "WIFI" on the left in the menu. Something feels weird. I did a speedtest now just in normal windows mode since I couldnt run a speedtest in safe mode and it seems to have stayed the exact same with no change.

Good point. I just tested from the EXACT location as you say to do. My iphone 12 just pulled 142Mbps down and the windows 10 comp did 7.61Mbps holding it exactly by the antennas. What gives??? Brain cannot comprehend the discrepancy. I am on Starlink (I live in the boonies) with the dishy(software checked and updated) on the barn roof and it has a proprietary ethernet adapter you have to buy from starlink for me to have trenched the 100' of CAT6 cable to the house. (Ran two cables for redundancies sake and checked both cables to be fine and in working order and not one better than the other). That ethernet cable comes into the house into a D-LINK DIR 867 AC 1750 (fully updated software) router about 30' from computers location and through one wall for WIFI. (This one: https://www.dlink.com/en/products/dir-867-ac1750-mu-mimo-wifi-gigabit-router) Router is 1 year old exactly. (Have tried rebooting multiple times and starlink dishy as well).

I bought an asus axe5400 6e pci-e network adapter card and plugged it into my computer last night. It shows the same speeds over multiple speedtests spread hours apart against my USB wifi antenna I was using. Again my iphone can get 100-200mbps right beside the computer. Any other last ideas? Otherwise Ill just tear up the carpet and run CAT6 cable along the baseboards. @Robchil tagging you as well.

Sometimes I'm a bit thick. Thanks for this. Just finished doing as you prescribed.

Absolutely. It is already unchecked from my previous troubleshooting attemps. Just not sure exactly what you mean by: "under usb, you will find usb hubs you can do the same for... "

Awesome, thanks for the reply. I found it. It is Realtek. I have no problems posting it but I see you blurred out a whole bunch of stuff so im not exactly sure what youd need to see from it (what my hardware ID is) and what I should blur out before I share. Also as I was poking around, I poked into the "Events" tab and it says there that "device XXXXXXXX requires further installation". I suppose that could also be part of the issue?