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paps511
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Hey guys,

 

So I recently moved my office and desktop to the basement of my house and the internet is crap down here. On speedtest.net I get a ping of 10 Down 15mbps  and Up 10mbps

We have a Satan Comcast Modem and an Apple airport. But on my MacBook Pro, I get 13/55/12 in the exact same location

 

I bought a wifi extender, but it seems to be even worse than the normal network. I have a linksys RE6500

I bought a new wifi card, TP-LINK TL-WDN4800. The Wifi card software says I have excellent service and should get about 110mbps

 

Still nothing works to speed it up and it is painfully slow to download things. I can't play any games which is the purpose of my desktop. Steam has a peak of about 1.5 mb/s when downloading games and updates.

 

Thoughts?

I also only use Chrome

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ethernet cable will solve all your problems

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Use ethernet and 1.5MB/s sounds about right for 15Mb/s down.

No, 1.875MB/s sounds right about 15Mb/s.

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I know a hardline will be the best, but its not a possibility.

 

But why is it that my desktop with a dedicated pcie wifi card gets 1/4 what my laptop gets?

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I know a hardline will be the best, but its not a possibility.

But why is it that my desktop with a dedicated pcie wifi card gets 1/4 what my laptop gets?

Look at getting a powerline adapter. Works great for me.

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=1194444

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This is probably solved, but I thought I shoudl give you a heads up, powerline SUCKS, well for WAN its fine but LAN on these sucks, I know I may have bad and old cabling in my house but still, 1080p stream from NAS was laggy :( cabled the whole house with ethernet: godsend.

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