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I do not remember if the wifi worked adequately, but I did not manage my time adequately to balance work, school, and my family, so I dropped out. I signed up for one class for this semester and did not receive eleven clients in eight days like last term. I have plenty of clients, but too many cancellations.

I usually try to reschedule, but it almost never happens.

I am having wifi problems again, although it is possible that I struggle more trying to tune out Mom, my brother, and The Hallmark Channel. I will be watching a lecture in my room with the door closed with headphones and then call out to warn Mom that she is watching a Liberty Mutual commercial.

She screams when she hears the jingle.

So, soundproofing and finding a solid door is a completely different issue, but I need to find my noise-canceling headphones, too.

I sometimes have problems with pages not loading, but mostly I struggle with my lectures buffering. However, I only had fifteen minutes for my third quiz because I could not get the page to load.

I have been taking quizzes on my desktop because the Internet does not act much better even on ethernet (with wifi disabled).

The problem is that if I am in the kitchen, Mom just thinks that I am playing on my computer, and keeps trying to talk to me.

I am taking a quiz!

Move out? If anywhere is available for rent, whether it be one bedroom or three, it starts at $750 a month, and I am barely able to afford my room.

I am pretty much just trying to endure until I can get into grad school.

That is why I am taking on-line classes.

Craigslist shows a two-bedroom apartment for $390 a month, but that does not include gas, electric, or Internet.

That is tempting.

Anyway, I installed a program to keep my drivers up-to-date, but it says "More updates found! 13 device drivers and components need to be updated by Pro Edition!"

When I close that it says "Hooray! All drivers are up to date!"

"Upgrade to Pro Edition to update 13 more drivers and components!"

It sounds like I need a new utility. It has updated fourteen drivers, so it does the job about half of the time?

This is a Lenovo and this time when I went to their website looking for drivers it had me download Lenovo Service Bridge, which shows it my drivers. Even though Windows said I had the latest wifi driver, Lenovo showed me a newer one.

It did not make a difference.

It showed me eighteen other drivers that needed to be updated, so that utility did not even catch everything.

I tried different troubleshooting steps that I found on-line and finally downloaded Ashampoo Windows Accelerator 3. Two seconds later it told me to reboot and I did another speed test.

I went from .27 Mbps to 89.6 Mbps and things work great--for the most part.

Some of the lectures still buffer, while everything is absolutely fine on my desktop. I just went to bed at 9pm, woke up at 3:30am, and am trying to not bother Mom and my brother.

I am not a big fan of this class and how the professor set it up, but that is a different issue.

Do you have any idea why the Internet buffers on my laptop, even on ethernet, but not on my desktop?

Have a great day!