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Wifi shows full bars but runs slow or not at all
Hi everyone. Got some Wifi issues that's slowly driving me crazy.
I have a desktop pc with Win7 and a usb Wifi adapter connected. Now, my wifi is showing full bars and what appears to be a strong connection, yet the internet hangs and is unable to load an entire page, if it even works at all. A lot of the time it will jump from full connection to limited access, and it took forever to identify the network.
All other computers in the house have great wifi connection - however, they are all laptops. Mine is the only one dependant on an external wifi adapter.
I have tried several adapters and have had problems with all of them, never able to maintain a stable wifi connection. One had a decent connection but it was not entirely stable and usually hung in the low bars. It worked with my computer being in the same room as the router, but I've had to move it one room over.
I've tried resetting the router.
I've tried disabling both router firewall and windows firewall with no change.
I've tried installing and reinstalling the latest drivers for the adapter.
I've tried putting the adapter and the router right next to one another, no change.
The channel I'm using (2) was shown to be the one least used, I could try and switch channels but we really don't think we have that much traffic out here as I live in the countryside.
My adapter is this one: ALFA AWUSO36H
The most frustrating thing is that it looks like the wifi is working with full bars, yet it doesn't work at all.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.