Published May 8, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Rob LeFebvre is an editor and writer focusing on consumer and enterprise technologies for a broad range of outlets. He’s been writing online for more than 15 years; before that he was a special educator for kids with severe disabilities. Rob has been an Editorial Director at Lifewire, a news writer at Engadget, and a senior contributor at Cult of Mac. He's written about PCs, Macs, mobile phones, and games, created newsrooms from the ground up, and has extensive experience reviewing hardware, software, and games across his career.  If your Wi-Fi feels slower than you'd like even though your router is fine and your ISP says it's not experiencing any outages, you might want to restart everything, and then run a speed test. If the numbers are still pretty disappointing, the fault could lie with Windows. Every modern Windows laptop has a set of power-saving features that help reduce how hard your Wi-Fi adapter works.…