slow – L5J.NET https://l5j.net My Life, Electronics, Smart Home Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:57:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://l5j.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-L5JNET-150x150.png slow – L5J.NET https://l5j.net 32 32 Dell G7 Slow Download Speeds https://l5j.net/windows/dell-g7-slow-download-speeds/ https://l5j.net/windows/dell-g7-slow-download-speeds/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:57:39 +0000 http://l5j.net/?p=7642 Quick post before I forget.   I recently purchased a Dell G7 from Best Buy and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why the download speeds have been so slow.  I run Google Wifi and everything checked out to be perfect.  I even ordered another Google Wifi device thinking that for some reason I wasn’t getting very good coverage.  

After some research and a few days of testing I started going through what app’s are installed by default on the Dell G7.  Turns out I had two applications called “SmartByte” installed.  Once I uninstalled these two programs and rebooted my computer viola!  I noticed my speeds were back to normal.  

Honestly I’m not even sure why these are installed on the device at all.   

What a complete pile of trash that caused a 2 day head-ache and almost returning this laptop back to BestBuy.

Hopefully this post will help others before they return the device.

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