New Laptop - Terrible Download Speeds

Hardware and technical stuff
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Hey, I purchased a brand new laptop a few months ago. I’ve been setting it up slowly over the past few months - weaning off my old laptop. I noticed while downloading CoD: Modern Warfare that the download was going extremely slowly - but I suffered through it and let the download run for about 24 hours until installation. I figured it was something to do with Battle.net which is not a service I have used in years.

Now, a month or so later - I’m trying to download DOS2 via steam and the download is 12 hours with a download speed of 2MB/s. I downloaded the game within an hour and 15 minutes on my 5 year old laptop.

Doing a speed test…

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My old laptop gets 50MB/s download and 50 MB/s upload.

Both of these connections are wireless. Network band is 5Ghz.

Is there a way for me to tell if something that came installed on my laptop is throttling my download speeds? Any other suggestions are appreciated.

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Try safe mode with networking.

If possible, you could also try a wired connection just to see if there is any change.

3

Is Windows updating in the background?

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Sometimes in the device settings you can force it to use an ac network over a slower one, try that, it should help. Also if you have any network software not drivers installed then try uninstalling them.

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Trying to test what I can before I run off to galaxycon.

Wired connection seems quite a bit better on my new laptop.

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Nope.

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Hmmm, I’m cautiously optimistic, this looks like it may have worked. I’ll have to set some things to download while I’m gone.

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Seems to work quite well now. Thanks all!