Wifi speed seems slow

[Bill Thorson]

NCLUGers,

I am trying to see why my laptop network speed seems slow and get ideas 
for if/how I can fix it.  These are a couple test I ran on the same 
network with my desktop and laptop right next to each other and WIFI'ed 
to the same router connected to Fort Collins Connexion.

I don't buy expensive boxes so this is what I have.

Desktop named "klr" - 3+ years
Zotac Zbox CI329 Nano 
<https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/zbox-ci338-nano-windows> (~$300)
    Debian Mate GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Laptop named "bob" - 1 month
Amazon.com: TRHRO 14 Inch Traditional Laptop 
<https://www.amazon.com/TRHRO-Inch-Traditional-Laptop-Computers/dp/B0FVL485QG> 
($230)
    Debian Mate GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)

Here's a speed test from www.speedtest.com


And here is a couple simple ping tests:
     Desktop:

    bill at klr:~$ ping -c 10 google.com
    PING google.com (142.251.46.142) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=1
    ttl=117 time=7.23 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=2
    ttl=117 time=9.36 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=3
    ttl=117 time=7.26 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=4
    ttl=117 time=10.2 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=5
    ttl=117 time=10.8 ms
    64 bytes from ncdena-aa-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142):
    icmp_seq=6 ttl=117 time=8.35 ms
    64 bytes from ncdena-aa-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142):
    icmp_seq=7 ttl=117 time=9.22 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=8
    ttl=117 time=6.79 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=9
    ttl=117 time=8.16 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142):
    icmp_seq=10 ttl=117 time=9.70 ms

    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9013ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.794/8.713/10.820/1.297 ms
    bill at klr:~$

     Laptop:

    bill at bob:~$ ping -c 10 google.com
    PING google.com (142.251.46.142) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=1
    ttl=117 time=9.16 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=2
    ttl=117 time=5.83 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=3
    ttl=117 time=427 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=4
    ttl=117 time=73.7 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=5
    ttl=117 time=677 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=6
    ttl=117 time=221 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=7
    ttl=117 time=312 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=8
    ttl=117 time=164 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142): icmp_seq=9
    ttl=117 time=360 ms
    64 bytes from dfw28s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.46.142):
    icmp_seq=10 ttl=117 time=210 ms

    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9013ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.832/245.939/676.631/196.908 ms
    bill at bob:~$

Any idea on how to speed up my very nice and cheap laptop?

Bill
Only Linux on my desktops/laptops since 1992 starting with SLS 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System>
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