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Xist · 10-05-2018, 07:31 AM

I just bought this for school and, unlike the $300 laptop it replaced, it loads everything quickly, except for the Internet. I just did a speed test and it said that I had an excellent connection with 500KB download speeds!

What year is this?

I keep trying to do schoolwork in my room where I cannot hear my family and the television as well, but then some web pages never load, so I get on my desktop, which does everything quickly, but I struggle to tune out my environment. I have been trying to search for a solution on-line, but everything that I find either points out the obvious, or is actually about something completely different.

My CPU usage is at 14%, so it shouldn't be a virus. Resource Monitor hardly shows any Internet being used. It did not seem any faster when I unplugged the ethernet cable from my desktop and plugged it into the laptop. Windows says the driver is up-to-date.

Do you guys have any idea why the Internet is so slow on my brand-new laptop, while my two year-old desktop and my 4.5 year-old phone are great?

Thanks!

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