On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM David Fleck <dcfl...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > > Using the Ookla speedtest site on a browser, my current laptop gets about > 40-60 Mbps; the EliteBook gets about 0.2 - 0.4 Mbps. So I wasn't kidding > about 2 orders of magnitude. Using simple pings around the local network, the > EliteBook seems ok; ping response time is in line with the other machines, > packets aren't getting dropped during the ping tests. > > It may be coincidental, but I noticed that twice during the times I was > running the speedtest on the EliteBook, the Internet connection on other > devices in the house dropped. Other times I ran the test, the connections > were fine. So I wonder if there is some kind of interference going on, at > least sometimes. > > I'm using 2.4GHz for the all the laptops in the house because the 2.4 signal > seems to degrade much less with distance from the router than the 5Ghz.
One advantage of the 5GHz band is that, because it doesn't propagate through walls as well, you aren't getting channel contention from outside your house as much. I'd consider trying to replace the radio with one of the intel mini pcie cards, like the one I linked somewhere above in this thread. -- Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net
