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    Slow PC wifi.

    Hey,

    So I'm using a wifi dongle TP-LINK WN821N for my PC to connect to my router (virgin superhub) and I keep getting random ping spikes that are oddly consistent when they start, rising from 120 odd up to 300 then eventually say 999 (in Battlefield 4).

    My download speed is showing at like 7-8 Mbps on the PC with the ping behaving at 19ms. Oddly though my phone (nexus4) gets download speeds of 35mbps and the same ping, and that's from the same room. I've tried updating the dongle driver and my mobo's usb drivers but no avail, is it just a poor dongle?

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    Re: Slow PC wifi.

    Does it come with an extension cable? If so, try using that to move it away from the metal PC case; the antenna being right next to a big metallic object can harm performance.

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    Re: Slow PC wifi.

    If it's an option buy a £20 pair of powerline adapters and never worry about the antenna location, whether the neighbours wifi is on a conflicting channel, signal through walls, unstable drivers etc ever again.

    If you really can't go that way you could maybe try moving the PC to the same room as the superhub temporarily to see if that fixes things, would help to narrow down whether it's simply signal strength causing the problems. If it's still a problem maybe driver related?

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    Re: Slow PC wifi.

    give the shub a dedicated channel on the 2.4 GHz, might help

    powerline would be better solution tho
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    Re: Slow PC wifi.

    Hey folks, cheers for the replies, got the powerlines,unfortunately in moving the unit the router was on to plug them in the Superhub dropped and the coaxial socket came fully out of it. Seems to have snapped from its soldered connection inside. engineer coming on Wednesday.

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    Re: Slow PC wifi.

    Okay router replaced (free of charge thanks to a sound engineer) and the powerlines are giving me 60+Mbps. Cheers for the help.

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