• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    You might just have a crappy router in general…? Not as in, you need the newest router with fastest speeds to tide over the slower times. What I mean is that there’s lots of cheap, no-name routers that are just extremely unreliable. Many ISPs hand them out.

    Investing into a more expensive router from a widely known brand is usually well worth the money, in my experience. You can probably even buy a used one and still have a better experience.

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      10 months ago

      Currently I’m a college student, so I don’t have my own router but I use my university WiFi. And that frequently goes below 1mbps.

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        10 months ago

        Ah, yeah, that would do it, too. I don’t necessarily feel like a new standard will help with that either, but who knows, maybe in a decade or two, every university WiFi router is on WiFi 7…

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        10 months ago

        In that case, in assuming interference is the issue. A lot of college housing is made of solid concrete block which is great at blocking WiFi signal

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          10 months ago

          There’s some of that, but even in the open dining hall space I get terrible Internet speeds, even when it isn’t particularly crowded there.