Wireless issue

[Jankovd]

I recently moved into an apartment, where the ISP installed a fibre terminal and a mikrotik AP. I have a lenovo thinkpad T480 and a network rack in my office. I used to connect via a Windows network bridge using my T480's wireless and sharing the internet via the ethernet port. Recently I bought a TP-link pci-e wireless card (300mb/s) ( or at least that's what they say) and installed it on one of my servers running Windows server 2019 datacenter. Firstly I got remarkably low speeds of 0.34mb up and same down, and now I don't even pick up the signal and it's not that far. Any suggestions or solutions? I'm thinking of investing in a gigabit powerline extender since I don't have a ceiling to run a network cable. And also if I connect via a ethernet cable directly to the router I get good speeds.

Thanks in advance

[Donut417]

16 minutes ago, Jankovd said:

Any suggestions or solutions?

Wireless should not be used in a server period. WiFi in unpredicatable. The fact is just because your not far away doesnt mean its going to work. It all comes down to what the building is made out of and what other sources of interfrence you have. 

 

Also you will NEVER get Gigabit out of powerline adapters. Most of the time speeds are meh, though in some cases they are more stable that WiFi, in other cases powerline adapters are worse than WiFi when it comes to stability. The only alternative Ethernet solution thats worth a shit is Moca, but the adapters are expensive and you need coax already ran to the areas in question. 

[Windows7ge]

You really don't want to run a server on Wi-Fi. It'd be a terrible experience for the clients.

 

Powerline is only barely a step-up from that and their advertisements of gigabit are false. Most/all only do 100Mbit and that's on a good day.