Okay guys, this is a strange problem with my wireless internet, I'm going to be as detailed as I can be.
approx. 5 months ago I moved from southwest Michigan to central Michigan (Lansing/East Lansing), and purchased a wireless adaptor for my PC. We are currently using AT&T (no alternative, don't even ask) as our service provider, for two months I had no problems with the network, connection, download/upload speed, everything ran fine. Early last month my system was infected by malware, first crypto-locker (crushed by Malware Bytes, lost some files tho'), then by the FBI Moneypak virus (new variant, really effed things up bad), after intensive work the virus was removed completely. The only other major change during this period was upgrading from the free version of Malware to the full version (with active protection). There are four additional computers in the household, they have NO difficulty with the network (I am dead serious, I can be lagging to hell and my roomate's systems are all running perfectly). I have attempted repositioning the computer, I have installed the latest drivers (again dead certain), I have tried literally every single thing I can think of and NOTHING is improving the latentcy. I am using a TP-LINK TL-WN851ND adaptor, it worked before, it does not work now. The part is inexpensive, and I can likely replace it without difficulty, but I'd like to see if anyone can help me figure out what's up first.
Holy sh*t EDIT: And literally within a few hours of posting I find the answer myself, when Malwarebytes performed a system restoration it reset all of my various adjustments to install state, of all the possible things this could have been it turns out that the issue was Windows automatically shutting down the device when it had low load. TLDR: EFF you Windows.