BUT I just thought of something... it is your laptop that is having the issues...correct?
I don't know, because I rarely use my desktop to connect to the internet now that I have a laptop. The desktop is OLD, probably over 8 years old, and connecting to the internet was PAINFULLY slow. That's probably the main reason I bought the laptop. I pretty much only use the desktop to connect to my bank account now, because the bank recognizes it and I don't feel like going through the hassle of changing what it recognizes. Besides, it just feels . . . safer, using the desktop. Which makes no sense, since either way it goes over the same wi-fi, but it just . . . does.
And you are using your laptop vie your wi-fi in another room (a room different then where your modem is located)... correct?
Yes, my laptop is in the spare bedroom, which I use as an office, and the modem is in the other bedroom which has a landline connection in it. There's a splitter? on the landline in that room so I can use the phone while I'm online.
If your answers are all yes... do you have issues when you use your laptop in the same room as where your modem is?
I've never used it in that room. There's no place to set it up, since that's the room I sleep in. It probably would have made things simpler if I used the "office" (which technically is the Master) as my sleeping room and the other one as the office, but I like the view better from that room. The Master bedroom, which I use as the office, looks out at a parking lot. I didn't want to wake up to that or hear people coming and going while I was trying to sleep. Overexplain much, do I?
I will say, when I worked from home, I used the kitchen and I don't remember having connection problems. That was the old modem, BUT, that was also a work laptop and it was over the company's VPN, so maybe that had something to do with it. I hardly ever use this laptop in the kitchen.