Often, you will find the speed of a single-core CPU is higher than a single core of a "multi-core" processor. The same thing applies on your computer - if you give a "quad" processor only one task to do, if won't be any faster than a "single-core" processor, especially when that one task is a "speed-measurement" task that cannot exploit the other 3 cores. The other 3 trainees won't help fulfill your order. The one manager will be faster than any one trainee. If you are the only customer that enters a fast-food store, and there are a "quad" of "trainee" employees behind the counter, your service-time will be slower than if there is just ONE manager behind the counter. > and was told it's in the 25th percentile, even tho it is a quad core). > The NEW hp I am having trouble with is also running quite slow (I ran a user benchmark test on the system
It can only help your laptop, when it is "far" from your router, to send/receive as fast as it can send/receive when it is "close" to your wireless router. The range-extender cannot send any faster than it can receive from your wireless router. > I have a range extender on my home network, getting 5 bars of connection and only seeing 72.2Mbps versus the 144.4 Mbps I got via my acer with 5 bars on an 802.11n connection.
The REALTEK web-site states that your WiFi adapter should support the 'N' protocol ?!?!? > according to the adapter properties, there is no listing in the wireless mode for 802.11n. The Realtek RTL8723DE-CG is an 802.11bgn 2.4G single-chip that integrates Wireless LAN (WLAN) and a network PCIe interface controller with integrated Bluetooth 2.1/4.2 USB interface controller.
#Realtek rtl8723de 802.11b/g/n pcie adapter specs driver#
The driver has a date of december 6 2017, this is the latest for the rtl8723de adapter installed in the system