If your laptop is Windows 10 then I experience the same issue whenever any of the PC's in the house do a Win10 update.
Like you, our internet in the area is crap and normal surfing (emails, web browsing etc) is fine when any or all PC's are on and active.
But if even one PC starts an update process then web speeds simply go so close to zero that it become impossible to do anything web related.
I go around to all the PC's, find the culprit doing updates, turn it off, wait about one minute, and the other PC's go back to normal.
If you check your laptop, (Start, Settings, Update and Security), what is the Update Status?
You may have to leave the laptop on overnight just to see if that allows it to 'do its thing' and get over this hump. (jeez, if I had a dollar for every time I've had to leave PC's on overnight!!!)