Bought son a new laptop yesterday for when he starts uni in a few weeks. Nothing special, just a <£300 PCWorld HP he liked the look of (gets that from his mother) that seems to have a good enough spec for not too much money.
Seems ok, apart from wifi - get 37Mbps on a cable, but more like 2 or 3Mbps on wifi; that's with the laptop sitting next to the router, where Windows gives the signal strength 4 out of 4. Tends to drop the connection when further away. Lots of other devices in the house are fine.
Got in touch with Plusnet earlier to see if they could think of anything in the router that might be causing it, but they couldn't.
It's only about 15 mins back to PCWorld so relatively easy to take it back to fix/replace, but any suggestions as to what might be the problem? It's running Windows 10 (son upgraded it).
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