Download speed varies

Gjac wrote:
I have Frontier as an internet and TV provider for the lst 3 years with no issues with download speed. I shut system down for a mo while in Florida when I returned the internet was very slow. Called Frontier and they tested the signal to house and the full 12 mbps was there. When I tested the signal in the bedroom from my laptop I was only getting 4 mbps. They explained that other people in the neighborhood may be on the same WIFI frequency as me so they adjusted the frequency and I got 14 mbps. This morning the internet was slow again so I tested the speed again and it was back to 5 mbps. Is this normal? Can anything else be done to get the speed back with out hard wiring my laptop to the WIFI? There is no improvement when I move laptop to within 1 ft of the modem.

You might have to - until this work/schooling from home requirement relaxes - change to a more expensive Frontier plan that provides higher average speeds. A higher speed plan would still run slower at times, but it's speeds during those times would still be faster than your current plan is during those same times.

That's what we did some time ago. We changed from our old provider with their top 10Mbps plan (which got way slower at times), to a new provider and their 110Mbps plan - which still slows up at times, but even during those times turns out to be way, way faster than 10MBps.

Frontier may have higher speed plans so you could at least stay with Frontier ... but on one of their higher speed plans.