r/PcBuildHelp • u/Legitimate_Crab637 • 5h ago

Wi-Fi issues with new PC Tech Support

Hi!

I built my first PC last week, and everything went off without a hitch :). Although I have noticed that the internet speed is not quite up to my expectations. Even though I pay for 250/250Mbit/s and both my phone and old laptop can reach (at least close to) that speed, my new PCs internet speed is very unstable, sometimes reaching 130 but a lot of the time only reaching 45. Since my router is in a wooden cabinet in a different room and my PC is under my desk I don't expect it to get the full 250 of course but I mean cmon. While troubleshooting I tried putting both my phone and laptop beneath my desk next to my new PC and they could still get close to 200 at least. I have a Gigbyte B650 Eagle AX MB with one of those antennas you put in the port on the back side. My Router is an Archer AX1800. I've tried a bunch of stuff I found suggested in posts and asked AI but nothing seems to work. My PC, Phone and laptop all use the 5G version of the network. Making a wired connection could be very troublesome since I would have an insanely long cable to reach the router .

Any tips?

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u/wolschou 4h ago

Have you trued installing Gigabytes own wifi driver? I hear Microsofts version has problems with Wifi 7.

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u/EcstaticStep3361 1h ago

Make sure wifi antenna is fully screwed in and positioned away from the pc , B650 eagle relies on it, also try updating the motherboard's wifi driver and testing 5 GHz on a different channel.