Slow speeds for content sharing

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GrantS46

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Hi everyone, I'm needing some help please. I have recently bought a new Hisense Q8600 TV. I have connected this up to my local network in my house via WiFi.

I have my PC which serves as a media storage and stream media from there into my phone or TV by allowing network sharing on my PC.

My PC is connected to the router via WiFi (2,4Ghz-300Mbps). My router is a TP Link AC1200 (Dual band) but I connect everything to it (TV & Cellphone)via 2,4Ghz frequency

My issue is that when ever I try and view files on my TV/cellphone from my PC (or vice versa) I'm getting very slow speeds. I peak at about 16-18 Mbps. With these speeds trying to watch a 4k movie from my PC on my TV is incredibly painful. I'm not too sure what my bottleneck is. I have even moved my router within a meter of my TV and PC and this still hasn't changed the speeds. I have connected my PC to the router via a gigabit ethernet cable and then moved my cellphone and TV to the 5Ghz frequency and stil no change.

Both my TV and Cellphone get the slow speeds. Makes me think it's an issue with my laptop, however the HDD is a 7200rpm and uses about 25% disk usage when im streaming. Any idea what the issue could be?
TIA
 
If possible. Try run a long network cable from the router to the TV to test. This will isolate if its the wifi. If it is the WiFi then try change the wifi channels.

Thats a start.
 
Hi Peon, thanks for the help. Issue doesn't seem to be with the WiFi, connected a network cable from my PC to the router, then router to PC and still getting very slow speeds, it averaging about 8-10Mbps.
 
Sure no worries,

Update the drivers on the network card of the PC? Enable jumbo-framing? Try a different Gig-Nic in the PC?
 
Hi Peon, sorry not too clued up on IT jargon- jumbo framing? How would I do that?
 
Well check the network status settings of the network card on the PC. At what speed is it connecting at?
 
Hi Peon, WiFi status is showing 72,0Mbps. I'm getting about 1/4 of those speeds though
 
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