My grown son is staying with us (no snide remarks, please) and is a gamer. He has an Xbox and a very fast new Win10 gaming desktop (although he had the same problem with his previous Win7 system). Both are connected via wifi to the house dual band AC router on a 40Mbs down, 4Mbps up cable from our local ISP.
Here's the problem. My Linux Mint 19.3 desktop and laptop both experience about 40mbps download speeds measured by speedtest.net. My desktop is normally connected to the router via ethernet while the laptop uses wifi. However, both my son's fast desktop and the Xbox consistently experience between 2 and 9 Mbps down, sometimes in the Kbps range, over the same wifi. It matters not which band (2.5g or 5g) he uses and whether he uses the inbuilt wifi or a USB Wifi dongle. I've tested the physically same wifi USB dongle on my desktop with the eathernet disconnected and still get about 40mbps. I've put my Cinnamon laptop physically adjacent to his system and still experience 35-40mbps download speeds. We both use Brave as a browser. He runs updated Windows 10 Home with nothing running in the background for speed testing. He's checked and downloaded the latest drivers with no change.
I can't believe the difference is the operating systems. I dislike Windows but it can't be that bad. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we could do to fix or diagnose this problem?
Here's the problem. My Linux Mint 19.3 desktop and laptop both experience about 40mbps download speeds measured by speedtest.net. My desktop is normally connected to the router via ethernet while the laptop uses wifi. However, both my son's fast desktop and the Xbox consistently experience between 2 and 9 Mbps down, sometimes in the Kbps range, over the same wifi. It matters not which band (2.5g or 5g) he uses and whether he uses the inbuilt wifi or a USB Wifi dongle. I've tested the physically same wifi USB dongle on my desktop with the eathernet disconnected and still get about 40mbps. I've put my Cinnamon laptop physically adjacent to his system and still experience 35-40mbps download speeds. We both use Brave as a browser. He runs updated Windows 10 Home with nothing running in the background for speed testing. He's checked and downloaded the latest drivers with no change.
I can't believe the difference is the operating systems. I dislike Windows but it can't be that bad. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we could do to fix or diagnose this problem?
