Wifi speed incredibly slow, even after disabling power management, and switching to Intel Wifi

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My computer’s internet speed slow and it randomly disconnects from the wifi with the error ‘network activation failed’, occasionally I’d even get a notification asking me to enter the network’s password. I want to clarify that for some reason this issue seems to only exist on my home wifi network. When I use my phone’s hotspot my wifi works seemingly without issue. As of writing this my system is fully up to date.

The issue started two or three months ago, I was on fedora 43. Around the same week the issue started I got an AMD GPU (RX 9060), I doubt the graphics card is causing problems but just in case it could I’m mentioning it. I was using a realtek wifi card with the rtl8192ee driver. I have tried the following: Tip: Lower WiFi latency by disabling WiFi power management, but it did not seem to change anything.

I decided it would probably just be easier to buy an Intel wifi card. So I bought the AX210 wifi module and after testing it, the situation does not seem to have improved.

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Okay so turns out I’m just an idiot. Long story short today I had the not so brilliant question of “What if the problem is the 3 cement walls between me and the router?”. After moving my computer right next to the router I can confirm that this is a driver issue, driver as in, the driver (me) was the problem. Sucks that I spent money to figure that out, but in my defence it didn’t help that Fedora displayed full signal strength and not show signal quality, but I don’t blame the OS. Lesson learned, simplest solution is often the correct one.