Your PC might be struggling with slow internet speed.
Your PC might be struggling with slow internet speed.
In short, testing the internet gives solid numbers—about 180Mbit/s download and 40Mbit/s upload—but online activities lag. YouTube or games load slowly, streaming in 1080p is nearly impossible, and your games show frequent ping spikes or poor connection even when everything works on your laptop. I also noticed the task manager shows zero network activity for all programs.
The speedtest data isn't the sole indicator of your internet performance. Slow load times could stem from delays caused by DNS servers, for instance. Consider changing to DNS providers like 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) or 8.8.8.8 (Google) as a test. Good luck!
To locate the optimal DNS server, try using tools such as DNS Benchmark. Initially, I considered recommending Namebench, but upon reviewing its GitHub page, I noticed it hasn’t been updated in nine years and still depends on Python 2—making me feel outdated.
Well that is an option. But if you were really interested, the first program mentioned gives nice results in an easy to understand format. I’ve used it a couple of times and noted an improvement after implementing the fastest name servers.