Why does the Internet load slowly on my brand-new laptop?

[redpoint5]

Tell your mom not to bug you when you're taking a test. Keep telling her, with increasing firmness.

What does speedtest.net say? If you're sharing internet with others, they could be hogging the bandwidth. Doesn't sound like a driver issue if wired internet is slow.

Lenovo has it's own update program called System Update. Don't install 3rd party garbage to do this; they'll give you adware and junk.

Open programs and features and look through the installed programs. Use www.shouldiremoveit.com to see which of the installed stuff needs to be removed.

School is pointless unless you have something specific in mind. Discipline will need to be learned first; something which I struggle with. I'd stay with mom as long as you can, but there's plenty of people that would disagree. Just don't let that arrangement prevent you from taking care of yourself and succeeding.

[Xist]

I just ran Avast and Malwarebytes and both said that I am clean.

I use Opera.

[redpoint5]

As I said, your problem doesn't sound like it's related to your computer since you've tested on 2 different ones, both wired and wireless.

Your mom, and your internet aren't sufficient excuses for not performing well on a test, or at school in general. take those things more seriously and visit a library if you need to. Don't spend the money on classes until you're prepared to do what is necessary to excel.

[Xist]

This is my point total so far:


This is the test that I took yesterday:


I had planned on driving down Saturday to see the woman that I have been dating, but since the tests is actually worth twice as much as all four quizzes (I am still waiting for the grade for #4), I stayed in-town and studied. I spent an entire day studying. 196 / 207 = 94.7. Yes. I absolutely could have done better, but only about five points. I earned 201 / 228 on the quizzes = 88.2%, but with the weird way the professor scores things, I currently have a 92.5.

The thing is, I did four quizzes and a test in five days, watching two hours of lectures and reading four chapters every day. I wanted to get started as soon as the class opened, but my textbook did not arrive until a week ago. I am going to do a quiz or a test every week now, so I will have more time to study, without the stress.

Please let me know when I am excelling in this class.

Thank you.

[Xist]

I was still trying to figure out what was wrong with my wifi and remembered that in the dozens of Linus Tech Tips videos that I have watched, he always mentions his community forum, "Which you should totally join."

I created an account and went to create a thread asking for help, but there was a "Before you ask for help" thread with all kinds of rules. I think that I spent an hour looking up all of the information they requested. I have used computers for thirty years, but I needed to look up how to look up half of it.

Of course, it asked about drivers. I used the Lenovo utility to catch up a couple of weeks ago, but ran it again, and found a BIOS update. With the exception of last night when it seemed like nothing wanted to load, it has been great, and when I tried to watch a lecture, it ran at double speed just fine.

Hopefully this holds up.

Today I noticed something that I did not recognize in Task Manager and looked it up. Apparently it was a standard Windows "Feature." I also discovered Settings > Privacy > Background, which showed thirty-six background "Features," most of which begged to be disabled. I may never notice a difference, but I like to know what is running on my computer, and to get rid of things that I do not need.

[freebeard]

Mac OS has an application called Activity Monitor. Windows probabl has Task Manager

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+equivalent+activity+monitor

https://www.howto-connect.com/window...-task-manager/
Windows 10 - How to See Network Activity Using Task Manager. When you see the network details, you will get a huge amount of good information as the state of the connected network, link speed, network utilization, sent or received bytes, sent or received unicast, or sent and received unicast per interval, and many such more things.

[Xist]

Aside from needing to reset the modem and router up to several times a day, the wifi has been working fine on my laptop.

The lecture for the quiz yesterday gave many specifics about how bad poverty, education, and etc. are in New Mexico (but sometimes still better than Arizona), but the data was from 2006 - 2010. The lecture is from 2012. The textbook she told us to buy is from 2008, although she said the newer editions lack significant improvement, so save your money.

That may be true, but if she started using a newer textbook, she would need to redo her recorded lectures, quizzes, tests, and the final.

Then again, the one time she showed the textbook in a lecture, it was an even older edition, if not a completely different text. Worse, I went back through the textbook and rewatched the lecture. She never covered material relevant to some questions on the quiz.

[freebeard]

Public schools are always 12 grades behind the world they are trying to prepare you for.

On my $100 laptop (spontaneous reboots about once a week) I found out how to turn on Text Summary Service. It's like Cliff Notes for everything.

Even better, I downloaded a 1.Gb file to enable local speech-to-text. The first phrase it captured was "My voice is my password".

[Xist]

Hey, does anyone remember how this ended?

I happened to see this thread when I was updating other threads about this laptop.

I guess that I solved the wifi problem, but it kept freezing, and then crashing. I convinced the extended warranty company to replace the motherboard and I sold the laptop on eBay.

How did I fix the wifi? Does it matter?

[oil pan 4]

I fix WiFi by turning it off and back on and if that doesn't work, use a hammer.