Y700 wireless signal strength weak

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I have a new lenovo y700 and I'm having trouble with the wifi signal.

When having the laptop next to the router i have a 34 Mbps download speed.
7 feet away, through a very shallow wall, it drops to 20.
On my Thinkpad I get 40Mbps in the same spot 7 feet away. I get better page loading times on my iphone and huawei phone than on my laptop if I move a bit further away.

I tried reinstalling the drivers again, disabling/enabling the wireless adapter in device manager, nothing works.

Any suggestions?
 
Solution
It may just be the adapter that this laptop came with. The only way around it would be perhaps to try an external WiFi card for the laptop, or try a signal extender for the modem/router.