Can a wifi adapter break so quickly?

Question

System administration

Hello, the computer is two years old, and its internal wifi adapter seems to be already fading, or am I not understanding something? Bottom line: I took off the cover of the laptop, well, it heats up like a stove, otherwise everything is ok, not a stove, I found an adapter there, everything is a piece of iron and two wires, as always, but later I noticed some kind of problem at the ping level for games, more precisely for an online game, where ping constantly sags if someone else uses wi-fi or I additionally use the speed for the same music, but everything is not so simple. Why an adapter? There is no such thing on the cable from the router. Why not a router? It is new and powerful, and again to the first - this does not happen over the cable. But if the problem is only in the adapter, when, for example, I load the Internet slightly (there is no lag on the cable during loads, the problem is not in speed but in ping, in random slop packet losses) and everything lags, then this would be easily solved by replacing the adapter, but this also happens when someone uses wi-fi, and I'm nothing but one game, that is, the adapter is not loaded except for the game, and the router is, but there is no such thing over the cable, and again I exclude problems in the router. The situation is strange, it looks like problems with the adapter, and not at a constant speed, but with random packet losses on a constant stream of information, despite the fact that this happens when, in addition to the game, the router distributes the Internet to someone else, but the router itself is new

Answer 1

Can a wifi adapter break so quickly?

Of course, usually a second is enough for this. Do you think it should slowly and sadly break down?

took off the cover of the laptop, well, it heats up like a stove

This is fine. Its consumption is decent, but there is no cooling in the laptop, so they often overheat there, in many models, if used for a long time, they are cut down from overheating.

noticed some kind of problem at the level of ping for games, more precisely for an online game, where ping constantly sags, if someone else uses wi-fi or I additionally use the speed for music of the same

Of course, this is a normal situation, and overheating has nothing to do with it. Ether is one, and you share it with all devices. Ping on wifi will always be worse than on the wire, if the air is clogged, it will be much worse.
See how clean the air is - each device operating on the air takes up a band, and makes you wait.
If you need stable speed and low pings - use wires.
Achieving stable speed and low ping over WiFi is quite difficult, and not always possible.