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I’m guessing your speeds are due to one of or a combo of: * Old laptop with wifi dongle * the USB wifi dongle itself * The extender But you said Peg’s newew laptop with better wifi card gets same results? Which would rule out your laptop and your wifi dongle per se. Suggesting it’s the...

Also, to be sure: When you’re checking wifi speeds, you’re the only wifi user? Peg isn’t playing Fortnite? The dog isn’t streaming A Dog’s Life in UHD to his comfy chair? You don’t have downloads going on to get the latest Woody’s Roundup? As best possible, your wifi speed checks are of an...

It can be. I get 800 Mbps desktop and 50 Mbps wireless. I’m sorting out why: a combo of various factors I hope to fix by spending money.

I assume your extender is wireless? It’s not connected by Ethernet to the modem / router. As a simple check: unplug the extender. Then go test your wifi speeds standing about 6 feet from your wireless router. That will tell you your top speed on your laptop. Check both SpeedTest and Fast.com...

Wired is faster than wireless, as a rule. Wired, you’re limited by your modem / router and the actual internet. Wireless, you’re limited by your computer’s wifi card, your wifi router, how far from your router you are, how many walls are in the way, what other devices are on the wifi network...

And even super wealthy, super huge companies like Apple can have weirdly slow websites and stores at times. I've found checking Google.com or a couple other small, always-fast websites, are my sanity checks when websites don't load. It tells me if it's me or them. If google loads fast, then...

And in this case it appears that the "upgrade" needed isn't home internet or home modem / router, but new laptop? Because the wife's laptop can do full 100Mbps speed they pay for? And adding USB wifi dinguses aren't really doing much?

From a practical standpoint, 50Mbps download is 4K streaming. If you’re doing a big OS update, you’ll wish for a faster connection. But for normal,use, I bet you’re fine. You’re probably more limited by your laptops CPU: websites are surprisingly complex and the lag we experience is often the...