Some thoughts here
The wired and wireless adaptors may have different settings. A comparison is in order.
What encryption level is setup for the wireless connection ?
Try changing the wireless "channel" to another.
How many devices are authorized wireless access ?
Are there any cordless landline phones in the house ? ( I had a phone in the process of failing in some manner and it just killed my wireless. A change of phones and frequency cured the issue.
Rattlesnake,
"well looks like i have been forgotten by the admins or did i miss something from them?"
The "admins" are at the corporate level and as such work Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm(ish) eastern.
Today is early Monday. Please give then a chance to address the pending posts including yours.
Rattlesnake,
" but not sure how to set the DHCP on the router or what that even means"
All routers are mostly the same but different .....
Settings from my old Netgear:
Be sure of the following:
WPS is disabled
Remote Access is disabled
All Guest Accounts are disabled
QoS is disabled
Router's 192.168.1.1 access page has the username and password changed from the default values.
Be sure that wireless encryption is set up on the wireless channels.
You will see that whenever you are requested to run speed tests you are asked to run them with a single computer connected directly to the modem. There is a good reason why that is required .... to develop a picture of what your system performance is with the least number of variable.
You have to understand that everything you do over your connection is shared.
Large scale, you are sharing a portion of the available data throughput of Echostar17.
That satellite has its capacity split into 60 spot beams that cover a certain geographical area ... so you are sharing the capacity of that beam and all of the other subscribers that are in the footprint of that beam. Speeds can and do change from second to second depending on the number of other users connected at any given time and their type of activity.
Finally you share bandwidth with the number of devices YOU have connected to YOUR network overall.
There is yet one more level of sharing and that is the number of active programs you have running and the number of active background processes that are running but are likely unaware of on just a single machine.
Watching a video is a rather very data intensive activity.
Lets look at the "data pipe" that after all the "sharing" is connected to your modem.
Look at it as .... 1" water pipe delivering water to your "house" (modem) and you only have a single "faucet" (one computer). That single faucet has the entire gallons per minute capacity available to it. It has 100% of the "flow" available.
Now open two faucets ... EACH faucet now only has 50% available, things are still good but they start to slow a little. Each "faucet" is a program and or a background process that you are not aware of. Have 4 "faucets" open on a SINGLE computer and now each faucet is only getting 25% of the flow rate of your 1" inlet pipe.
The one faucet that is a known open program is getting "starved" because of the unseen other three. Now this is still on a single computer,
Now install a router and connect two computers to it. The 1" pipe is still the same, still has the same flow capacity but it is now divided into two, one feeding each of the connected computers or devices ... a 1/2" line feeding each. Open up 4 "faucets" on each computer and each "faucet" (program or process) is now only getting 1/8 of the 1" inlet pipes capacity.
Assuming that your "flow rate" is as it should be according to speed tests then we are left with:
Is the server that is serving up the data stream(s) running properly ?
Is Qos enabled in the router and it is trying to do traffic shaping ?
Is one or more of the NIC's misconfigured ?
Are too many devices connected and using data at once ?
Are too many concurrent programs and processes "diluting" the data stream to just a trickle that is so little that it cannot support video playback without buffering ?
Just a few thoughts.