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Windows 10 (Home) Very Slow Internet Speeds (WiFi + Ethernet)
I have a custom gaming PC I built about 3 years ago. Nothing extraordinary. I have done some slight upgrades over the years (950 to 1060 6GB, PCI wireless card). The motherboard is not wireless capable, hence the PCI wireless card. I'd also like to state that I am far from illiterate when it comes to technology, so don't be afraid to use "big words," or correct terminology. If I don't know what something is, I can look it up.
Let's get down to business. I have an issue that seems to not have a solution. The issue is that I have very slow WiFi and ethernet on my PC. I've done countless hours of intense research on this issue to no avail. It seems the issue didn't start until ~1.5 years ago (yeah, I've been living off of a laptop since then because I could never find the problem), when I moved houses. Where I live now, satellite internet is the only "conventional" option; however, I found a solution to that by using a Nighthawk M1 mobile hotspot (on LTE, I chose this hotspot in particular because of the 4x carrier aggregation) as a modem connected to a wireless router. (I'll answer questions about that if anyone is interested). The speeds are great: 20mbps down/4mbps up when the towers are congested, 55mbps down/10mbps up at 1:00am when I should be asleep (I can play 8k video with ease on YouTube, just to give you a real-world example). In my home there are two laptops, multiple handheld devices, and my desktop PC. Every device has the aforementioned great speeds, except for the desktop. The desktop yields a ping of ~40 ms (which is average on all of my devices because it's technically an LTE connection distributed to my devices as WiFi), but the download speed is ~2mbps or less and the upload is nonexistent at ~300kbps or less. (ALL SPEEDTESTS ARE RUN USING SPEEDTEST.NET, but I've also tried other speedtest sites, such as speedof.me, with no improvement). I've tried every "easy trick" I can find and I've also tried more advanced methods, with absolutely zero luck. I'm sure it's not an issue with the wireless card because I receive the same slow speeds when connected via ethernet. Before you say it: *Yes, I have checked my running programs and processes to ensure nothing is hogging the bandwidth.* Actually, when I first start up the PC everything starts downloading updates. All of the tasks (trying to download updates) combined never go above ~3mbps (proof that the issue isn't isolated to a specific program).
I believe the driver I'm using for the wireless card is the Windows 10 default, but I may be mistaken. Here is a link to the available drivers for my specific motherboard: ASRock > H97M Pro4
If you can decipher which one is applicable to a wireless card I'd appreciate it.
I do understand that saying I have tried many things is a very broad statement, so even if you think I've already tried something, please still respond. Any and all help is appreciated greatly.