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Old 10-06-2018, 01:24 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
Are you using a wireless router? What is the bandwidth? What is your Internet connection?
If using a wireless router, what frequency (channel) are you using? If a lot of your neighbors are on the same one (never changed the default), that might slow things down. You can find WiFi analyzers* that will show you who else is on each channel.

Even though you plug in the ethernet cable, the laptop might still be using WiFi. I don't know enough about Windows to advise you how to check. On linux, you could use "ip -a", and it would show you the connection status. Wired will have a name starting with "enp", wireless with "wlp". Lots of info, but the important one here is state UP or DOWN.

*Looking at my tablet just now, I see me on channel 8, neighbors on 4, 6, and 11.

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