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the pcie wifi card in first 2 image is intel celeron 1000 from my old laptop dell inspiron n5010 , it is half pcie card and it seems it have 2 sockets to attach , similarly 3rd image shows my new pc's pcie slot that also have 2 sockets so i think that instead of buying a costly(for me) wifi card , i just swap these and if needed for old pc i have the usb wifi adaptor ill use that but i want to be sure that there both things work with each other and i can do this without causing any damage to my new system

Hey, I’m trying to boost our signal from the main house to another building. Currently the main house has the BT smart hub router and I have a TPlink extender in the other building but the wifi signal is terrible because its too far away. So I plan to run a cat6 ethernet cable round the house and into the 2nd building. But do I need to connect the cable into another router or just a extender. My current extender only has 1 ethernet port which isn’t any good as I would like to be able to be hard wired into my pc as well so I need some suggestions as to what to buy so I can do that, thank you

I'm planning on changing the WiFi card on my Dell G3 3579 and need to know if the Intel AX210 card is compatible with my motherboard. And will it be a plug and play situation or will I have to install any further drivers. Please advice. I found this listing on AliExpress for the AX210 card, is a scam or the real deal? Additonally, are there cards from any other manufacturers that I can use instead, that are better than the Intel counterpart? I would also appreciate, I could be told what I need to look for to understand what crieteria needs to be satisfied for an M.2 WiFi card to be compatible with the motherboard. For context, the one reason I'm doing this, is because whenever I connect to any WiFi network it says "No internet access". I tried with a USB card and I was able to connect. Currently Bluetooth works fine. Is this issue related to the WiFi card or is it something else? Thank you everyone for your support!

I’ve had my pc for years now. About a year ago, I thought my onboard wifi stopped working so I’ve been using an Ethernet cable. I finally got sick of running it from my room to the router whenever I wanted to game and wanted an upgrade anyways so got a new mobo with a tp link wifi card. I finished putting everything together and had one monitor plugged in, ran a Speedtest and was getting 400mbs download. So I hook it up to the rest of my setup and I get no internet. I then realized if I only have one monitor plugged in it’s fine, regardless of hdmi or display port, but once I plug it a second, it goes out. I know it’s not an issue with the wifi card (txe72e) or graphics card (3070ti) but no clue what’s happening. I read it could be some kind of antenna interference issue, but why would work it work fine with one cable plugged in, and not the others?

For the people that don't want to read a whole paragraph: I'm looking for recommendations on pci-e WiFi adapters! Thanks. Hello! I've been having constant issues with WiFi on my build. The issue has carried across multiple windows installs and multiple networks/routers. My last solution was a usb WiFi adapter but it drops the connection (or so it seems) every minute or two. Windows shows it is still connected to the network but no traffic seems to move. Downloads will fail, websites won't load, games disconnect and constant ping tests fail until about 30 seconds later when everything works like normal again. I resorted to sharing the WiFi from my phone over usb hotspot which works perfectly but isn't ideal. My next idea is to try a pci-e WiFi adapter and see how that goes so I am asking for any recommendations on those as there are so many out there. I should also add no my mobo doesn't have WiFi built in and yes ethernet would be amazing but I won't be able to run a cable through the ceiling until probably next year so that's out of the question for now. If you did read this far, fair play to you and thank you in advance for any suggestions Specs: Ryzen 5 3600 MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk Gigabyte RTX 4060 16GB Corsair Vengeance 800W PSU

Greetings buddy This has never happened to me Today I installed a tp-link archer txe75e on my aorus x570 ultra wifi PCIE 1 below the PCIE 16x That caused my GPU (rtx 3090) to not giving anymore signal output to the screen. When I turn on the pc everything lights up, even the GPU, the monitor turn on because it receives a signal from the GPU, but then "no signal". I tried to do cmos reset, remove battery, reset the monitor, plug and unplug the GPU. Any idea? It's all water cooled with hard tubing, and I'd love to find a solutions that does not require a total uninstall of the setup I'm in your hands

I have recently moved house and ethernet is no longer an option for my pc so i bought the intel ax200 card(https://www.umart.com.au/product/intel-wi-fi-6-ax200-m-2-2230-gig-a-and-e-key-sockets-ax-bt-module-no-vpro-oem-brown-box-64837) to get working wifi for my system the card when first connected was able to sustain a connection but at very low speed, at least 10 times slower than the laptop sitting directly next to it, it is now no longer able to hold a connection at all and when it connects to any network it gets no access i was wondering what my next steps should be to try and fix this. i have so far, installed the generic intel drivers, uninstalled the device and restarted the system and as followed the changes to settings listed here https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Intel-Wifi-6-ax200-Dropping-connection/m-p/665237 ( Change the channel width from "Auto" to "20 MHz" Disable Fast BSS Transition Roaming)

my speed's randomly decrease with my TP Link range extender I've tried many troubleshooting steps and none of them have worked I have tried factory setting it unplugging and plugging it back in reconnecting the range extender to the network and turning on and off DHCP nothing seems to be fixing the problem someone help me please

Do mirrors block Wi-Fi? As in if you have an AP, a non drywall wall with mirrors ( and a 55 inch tv) on the side of the AP, will the Wi-Fi in the room on the other side of the wall be bad?

Hey, I've got a unique problem. I just moved into a new place and I play a lot of competitive games like Valorant The only problem is that I'm way up on the third floor and the router is in the basement. Whenever I go to boot up a game, it lags to the point that it's completely unplayable. I don't have access to the router (the landlord's daughter has the only key to his office and she's out of town until the end of the month) otherwise i'd just run a cable up the stairs. I also have an ethernet port in my room but am unsure if it works or not (see attatched pics) Do I have any solutions or am I just SOL till later on in the month?

I've eliminated the 5g/4g Antenna can't be the Ethernet cable. The motherboard is ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Ethernet port blinks orange, sometimes orange and green. I have two Ethernet ports, I've had the same issue on both, and the windows update did not solve it. Windows tells me I'm connected sometimes, sometimes it tells me I'm disconnected but antenna is always connected, always green light. I've updated to latest windows update. It did not solve this issue but solved other issues, including the updated Lightroom being slow but Nvidia Driver also sped up things. So now things are faster. But still not figured out the connection issues. Should I try the latest driver? Intel I225/I226 LAN NDIS driver V1.1.4.38 for Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 64-bit. https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-maximus/rog-maximus-xiii-hero-model/helpdesk_download/ I see others have issues with Driver 2.1.3.3 I see someone did this. No idea if it will solve anything.

Hi all, I have recently switched to wifi as it would be impractical to drag a cable throughout my home, we changed internet provider and the router is now in a different location. When playing any online game, the ping is fine, however sometimes I will get the occasional ping spike in the hundreds, causing me to rubber band and die as I got shot before I even saw the enemy on my screen. To fix this, should I buy a WiFi extender that plugs into a power socket, which I could then ethernet to, or would a better router solve the ping issues? My WiFi card is the TP-Link TX20E. Any help is appreciated and I can supply more details if needed.

I'm helping my friend with some bird reaserch. I'm trying to build camera on 10m foldable stick, that's important to connect with camera by wifi. He needs to check tree hollows and he has some requirmants. Like minimum 10 in. lenght of inspection pipe and maximum 1,2 in. diameter. It also has to look down so normal endoscope isn't useful (and mirror doesn't help) So I figure out that i will conect standard endoscope with wifi module and camera with usb cennection like on attached image. But I don't know if will it works together. How to check if it will communiccate to each other? Some random wifi module and camera? Or maybe do you know some solution for that issue?

My computer will randomly lose internet connection progressively on ONE computer. What I mean by this is that it'll lose certain connectivity features, without losing others. For example, when it happens I can keep watching the youtube video I have pulled up (and it will continue to buffer past its current buffer point), but I can not load any new web pages. Additionally, I will suddenly no longer be able to send any discord messages, or pull up a discord server not already pulled up, but I can continue to receive messages on my current discord server. I can even see the messages I send from my phone on the same discord server, but again, any attempts to send messages from this computer just error out when sending. On steam I will still be able to send and receive messages correctly, additionally I can continue playing MMO/online games at this point without issue (but again, can't load any new web pages anywhere) - after a little while longer, then I lose all connection, including current youtube videos will hit the end of their buffer and not continue loading buffer, discord will disconnect me, and I'll lose connection to whatever game I'm playing. Something this issue will resolve itself over several hours. Alternatively, rebooting my computer immediately restores the connection. Rebooting the router also immediately restores the connection. Or I can go into advanced network settings, disable the network adapter, enable the network adapter, and that restores the connection (though the connection appears to drop again quicker this last way compared to rebooting the PC). Originally this issue was happening on wifi, so I ran a brand new ethernet cord to the PC, but the issue was identical. Furthermore, none of the other devices, including 4 other computers have this issue on this network, it is only this computer. This is an issue I've been having for several months, but its been getting progressively worse/more frequent over time. Originally it wouldn't even disconnect fully - it would only go into the state of not sending discord messages, and not loading new webpages, but could still play games and watch video content of youtube/streaming services already pulled up. The complete connection loss (discord disconnects fully, can't play multiplayer games, etc) is a recent development within the past month or so. This computer is quite robust. its a 4090 and an i9 13900k both on a shared custom loop that I did myself. The motherboard is a gigabyte Z790 aorus master. Windows 11 is on a 980pro. For the first 6 months or so of this PC being complete, there were no network issues. The first network issues began immediately after 1 event. 1) Comcast switching the entire neighborhood over from the old wires to the new fiber system. A lot of other individuals in the neighborhood reported starting having issues around this point too. - Though since it is ONLY this PC and none of the other PCs or devices on the network, I'm not sure how it could be related. I've updated the bios 3 different times since this issue first began (three different bio revisions, that's how long this issue has been going), I've updated windows at least a dozen times. I've updated all drivers I could find, including downloading the Killer wireless utility (this was back when the issue was on wifi, before I ran an ethernet line), the ethernet adapter is a different brand though, but again the issue is the same. I've even tried connecting to a different router (I have two different routers ran to the modem). Nothing at all puts a dent into this issue. Sometimes the issue appears after several hours of using the computer, sometimes the issue appears after just a few minutes since the last restart. I really don't want to have to reinstall windows, because basically none of my programs are on my C drive where windows keeps them active, they're all on different drives. I've successfully tweaked and fixed issues in registry before, but it was never network related. I'd be more inclined to go this route if anyone thinks it could potentially be a fix without doing a completely clean Windows install that'll take several days straight to fix all my programs again. Please I'll gladly take any help from anyone who actually reads this and recommends something that I haven't already explicitly stated I've done.

Hello LTT community! I have a lenovo legion 5 laptop running windows 11,with an intel wifi 6 AX 201 (for 2 yrs no issues), lately for a month now, whenever i turn the wifi on, it works fine, but it gets disconnected after around a minute, after i manually reconnect, it usually stays connected and doesn't get turned off again. (sometimes does tho), at first i thought it's a software problem so i did all the usual trouble shooting steps (clean instalation of wifi drivers from both Intel and lenovo websites, etc) nothing worked. i have another hard drive with windows 10 on it, and today i boot into that one and same thing happens there as well, does anyone know what's happening? (it should be a hardware problem at this point) Also same thing happens with other wifi routers (it's not the router's problem) PS the picture is a guide i found on YouTube, is this legit?

Hello, I've been having internet connectivity issues with my main pc (amd cpu, windows 10) for a while now and I cannot figure out why. Thought it was the WiFi card (Archer TXE72E), but when testing on separate desktop (intel cpu, windows 11) the card performed significantly better than my main. For example, I have a wpa3 WiFi connection that my main pc cannot connect to when using the WiFi card, but my second pc can with 0 issue when using the same WiFi card. Usually when the main pc tries to connect to the wpa3 connection it will either connect and have no access to the internet, or the WiFi on my pc will seemingly restart. I think it is specifically the main pc itself as I bought the Archer TXE72E to replace the previous TP Link WiFi card it was using because I was having the same issues with that one. If anyone has any advice on this that would be appreciated!

Im having a strange issue on a 15GB modded mc server hosted by GPortal. Ive seen other people have the same issue but haven't found solutions other than to call ISP. If that's what I have to do, I will. So basically I can play for hours with no issues at all. But every time a specific person joins my ping shoots up to 120-140 and makes the game unplayable for me. As soon as he disconnects, my ping normalizes back at the average 21ms I get on this server. Everyone else in the server is perfectly fine when he joins, only I'm affected. We all live within walking distance to each other and we all have AT&T, although I have fiber and they do not. I get 947Mbps down, and 945Mbps up. Ive never lagged on any game since switching to fiber until now, but I feel like something strange is going on. What steps should I take to fix this? This is a trace route to the server (hosted in New York and im in Ohio) when the specific friend is NOT online Tracing route to x [x] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dsldevice.attlocal.net [192.168.1.254] 2 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 23-125-200-1.lightspeed.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net [23.125.200.1] 3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 71.151.93.28 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 * * * Request timed out. 6 11 ms 15 ms 15 ms 32.130.17.75 7 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms cgcil403igs.ip.att.net [12.122.133.33] 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 24 ms 22 ms 22 ms be2766.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.177] 10 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms be2718.ccr22.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.130] 11 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms be2892.ccr42.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.82.254] 12 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms be3084.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.66] 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 41 ms 35 ms 36 ms 5.188.123.193 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms x Here is a trace route to the same server only 1 minute after my friend joins. Tracing route to x [x] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dsldevice.attlocal.net [192.168.1.254] 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 23-125-200-1.lightspeed.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net [23.125.200.1] 3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 71.151.93.28 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 * * * Request timed out. 6 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 32.130.17.75 7 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms cgcil403igs.ip.att.net [12.122.133.33] 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 22 ms 23 ms 21 ms be2766.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.177] 10 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms be2718.ccr22.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.130] 11 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms be2892.ccr42.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.82.254] 12 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms be3084.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.66] 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 36 ms 35 ms 33 ms 5.188.123.193 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 118 ms 121 ms 124 ms x As you can see my ping is 100ms worse after he joins. One other strange thing I will mention. Yesterday, hop 16 (5.188.123.193) was 37ms 33ms 166ms, and my overall ping was 136ms. Then I turned on my VPN and hop 13 (5.188.123.193) went down to 43ms 43ms 40ms, and my overall ping dropped from 136 to 27 when my VPN was on. If any further information is needed, just let me know

Hello, I recently introduced a raspberryPi (PiZero 2w) running Pi-hole into my network and since then I've been unable to figure out multiple problems. To clarify, I'm fairly new to troubleshooting a network so my methods my be flawed from the beginning. I tried to provide a primitive network diagram to spare you and myself from reading/writing through my network configuration.(The modem+router combo that is my ONT came with from my ISP) After setting up Pi-hole I edited my DNS settings on my ISP provided ONT and, as at first the now AP was a full on router I directed its DNS to the Default gateway of my ONT. Pi-hole was doing its thing on my ONT's network, but my routers network stopped connecting to the internet. After much digging around on the internet, I figured, if I put it in AP mode, all will be solved, so I put it in AP mode and directed it's DNS trough the ONT's default gateway and the internet came back, seemingly only working on PCs (connected with ethernet) and Laptops (tested with both eth and wifi) but not on phones. Since then, I had to configure a secondary DNS in my phone's settings to get it working, but it's obviously not benefitting from the Pi-hole DNS. This issue persists on all phones and only phones(even my google tv was okay) and only affects the wifi of the AP and is nowhere to be seen on the ONT's wifi. I'm now desperate because I cannot find what is causing this and even if I did, it seems like too big of an ask to try and solve it myself as I'm not that much into networking. Thank you in advance and feel free to ask anything any detail and I will try and provide it for you.

I'm currently getting around 90mbps on wifi and I'm tired of having 1/5 of the potential speeds on my pc. It kind of essential to have a strong connection when people like me are gaming a lot, downloading stuff. I have bought a TP-link 717 powerline adapter which worked brilliantly when i had the 74 Mbps package but i upgraded recently to 500 and it seems to peak at a speed of 110 mbps. I need some help figuring out how to be able to have low ping and better speeds for downloading games. The big problem is that my router is across the house and it cant be moved, and cant drill any holes. TLDR: -im on wifi (90mbps) -want to get low ping + higher speeds -cant get ethernet

I recently upgraded the router I use as an AP from a WiFi 5 Asus (RT-ACRH17) to a Wifi 6E TpLink (AXE95) and am getting weird results especially with 6ghz. Speeds are better when within ~5ft but quickly fall off... <3ft - 800-900mbps ~5ft - 750-850mbps ~10ft - ~400mbps ~15ft - ~350mbps ~20ft - ~220mbps ~25ft - 50-100mbps, sometimes disconnects or reports 'no internet, connected' >~35ft - no signal (Speedtests are local to the router using iPerf) I assume this isn't expected for 6Ghz/6E, 5ghz seems to work fine and has MUCH better speeds at range, where I'm getting barely 100mbps on 6Ghz I can get 500-600mbps on 5GHz... These are all from my ZFold 3, testing with a Z13 that also supports 6E gives better results across the board but speeds still tank, <3ft I can see ~1.4gbps and ~20-25ft It's ~250-300mbps. I haven't noticed disconnection issues on the Z13 (though I also haven't used it on wifi as much). Any recommendations before I just return this one and pick up a different device (probably an ROG Rapture AXE11000)? I've tried changing a number of settings in the current TPLink router including setting static channels, disabling 2.4/5ghz, OFDMA, TWT, WMM. with no real changes. The router is in AP mode, connected to an unmanaged switch at 2.5g which has a 10g link to the router. Other devices has no issues saturating their 2.5g links so I doubt it's a switch issue.

Hi everyone, I’m needing some help. TLDR: Friends devices getting 200+mb/s download speeds on my wifi while my PC gets only 30-40 I’ve always had bad internet due to living in the middle of nowhere, downloading games at 1-3 mb/s on a very good day. Until recently I got a huge upgrade to a new kind of hotspot that I’m now downloading at a consistent 30-40 mb/s! This is huge for me and I was super thrilled about this, until recently… When I had a friend come over. (I was building his PC for him) He heard about my new good internet so he brought his Xbox series X and gaming laptop as well to connect to my wifi and update/download some games because he also lives in the middle of the woods. I was shocked to see that not only was his laptop downloading games at 200-300mb/s, but his xbox was, and the PC we just built was too, and they were ALL DOING THIS AT THE SAME TIME! This is super hype for me because this is MY wifi, but like why doesn’t it do that on MY computer??? Especially considering I’m running ethernet (i’ve tried wireless too, same thing). The only thing I can think of is a possible hardware issue, but my PC is pretty solid. I didn’t build my PC so I don’t know what motherboard is in it, but im seriously considering swapping for the one we put in his to see if anything changes, but if anyone knows why this could be happening I’m willing to try whatever!

I built my own pc about 6-7 months ago, and soon realised I had forgotten to purchase a wifi card. However, I had intended to use ethernet anyway so I put it out of mind and have used ethernet happily ever since. I remember the wifi symbol being disabled and no networks appearing. However, when I turned on my PC after factory resetting it for an unrelated issue, I'm provided with the option to connect to Wifi, but only one network appears, an unfamiliar telcom name that is not the name of our provider. Curiously, under the wifi settings, our actual network name is the sole 'known' wifi network, although it cannot be connected to. What I'm wondering is why I'm given the ability to connect to wifi at all if my PC doesn't have a wifi card, but if it is possible I'd like to be able to connect my PC to wifi if I ever choose to relocate away from a convenient ethernet port. It just seems very strange that one random wifi network appears, and no others appear at all. If it helps, the WiFi adaptor properties is listed as a Bluetooth adaptor, or more specifically the Edimax Wi-Fi N150 Bluetooth4.0 USB Adapter.

Hi, I've a modem on the opposite side of my house which has vaulted ceiling (no attic space) and I want to get signal all the way into my garage. I'm not really looking for huge speed as I only need it for watching videos on YouTube and steaming music. Currently I can get 20-30 mbps down on the closest wall inside the garage but quickly drops moving away. My budget: I'd like to keep the total under 100$ What I've already tried: Tried Powerline (TP-AV1000) got similar to even worse performance No coaxial for MoCA Would rather no run ethernet through the walls I've heard the wifi repeater are just a scam. Since they wont actually solve the already poor range back to the modem so the speeds are bad anyway. My current idea: Using a Access point with larger antennas (TP-Link AC1200) to hopefully have a stronger connection in range extender mode to fill the black out spot. while being able to reach the modem. --------------- Is this a dumb Idea? is there a better way of going about this? have any of your had a similar problem? are there better products/brand to do the job? (I've only used TPLINK, goMocA, and Netgear before)

Specs Windows 11 Home Edition Gigabyte RTX 4080 i9-14900K 2TB m.2 MSI PRO Z790-A MAX WIFI DDR5 DDR5 6000MHz CL38 - 32 GB x 2 NZXT C1200 PCIE5 1200W Gold Wifi works on all other PCs and devices in the house perfectly fine, but for whatever reason this new pc just cannot hold a stable connection. The mobo is wifi-7, installed the external antenna, and at most I can get around 5mb/s for a split second before immediately drooping down to single-digit kilobytes and then disconnected entirely. It's not an issue of distance from the router, it's 1 floor above it and this pc is in the exact same spot as the last one. My partner's been on her pc all day with no connectivity issues, so it's not the wifi going out. I've tried completely powering my pc down and unplugging it for 10 minutes, and tried searching for the network adapter drivers online to reinstall, but can't seem to find them. (Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 Wi-Fi 7 HBS Network Adapter) Also made sure the WLAN AutoConfig Service was running, seemingly no issues with it. Not sure what my current router model is, it's the latest Spectrum model that supports 1GB/s Any and all help is greatly appreciated

Ran into a snag when setting up my home network. Thought I could extend my network coverage by setting up two access points on the RAX50 router (using 2 RAX35s). Was able to set up one of the RAX35s but when setting up the second one it would always fail. I was told by support that the RAX50 can only handle 1 WAP when it’s connected directly into it. If I use a small managed switch as a “middle man” between the RAX 50/ and the RaX 35s will I be able to set up the network as I was originally planning to? I ordered this managed switch to accomplish this NETGEAR 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Plus Switch (GS105Ev2) - Managed, Desktop or Wall Mount, and Limited Lifetime Protection https://a.co/d/5PsefJw My question is will this work or will I run into the same issue as before?