My setup:
Modem (Virgin Media Superhub) -> Router (Apple Airport) -> Extender (Huawei WS320) -> PC (Edimax EW-7612Pln network card)
Up until last week, things were going fine. Speeds a little slower than the rest of the house but my PC is furthest from the router (that's why I use an extender). With extender I was getting ~15Mb/s. Without it I get next to nothing, less than 1Mb/s for sure.
However, all of a sudden, my speeds seemed to drop massively, to the point where I can barely even load Google in under 20 seconds, similar to before I had the extender. Every time I reboot my PC speeds are fast again, for about 2 minutes. Then they randomly drop. Likewise, when I hit the reset switch on the extender, speeds increase, then decrease 2 - 5 minutes later. When I reset my router/modem, speeds remain as they were before reset.
Is something faulty? There's certainly something not right... But it doesn't make sense that when I reset my extender speeds jump temporarily again... Could that be on the blink? Usually when something goes wrong, it goes wrong. Not partially wrong after 2 minutes of use. O_O
TL;DR
Internet speed drops without explanation after about 2 minutes of PC use
Return to normal levels after PC reboot or extender reset, no change when router/modem reset.
Cheers,
Adam
EDIT: 1 more thing, prior to these issues last week, network monitor gadget was telling me I was getting 95 - 100% signal strength. No it fluctuates fairly wildly between 40% and 90%. Huh?


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