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Ethernet Switch getting throttled
So i don't understand why this is happening and never had this issue on my old Asus AC3200. so i get roughly 400+mbs for virgin media in my area. now on wifi it's perfectly fine ill get near that spe...
Ok, thanks for letting us know. Have never seen this kind of behavior and presume something in the switch maybe got hung up on something and needed to be power cycled and disconnected. Keep an eye on it. If it happens again, I would change out the switch for something better.
Please mark your thread as solved so others will know.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
toxicpanda wrote:Ok so here are my finding. So for some reason after doing the unplugging of everything connected to the switch the speeds seem fine (Currently) for how long i have no idea, all the cables i use are cat 6 so i know they should be fine, when looking at the XR500 the light is white so that means it should be gigabit right? looked at the switch and some of the light were orange which would suggest it wasn't giving out the gigabit speed?
2 PCs connected to the switch.
https://pasteboard.co/ItHEqeV.png
1 PC Connected to the switch.
https://pasteboard.co/ItHFjXy.pngLaptop Connected to the XR500 from the Switch cable
https://pasteboard.co/ItHFYuS.png
After turning the switch off and on, removing all the cables and placing back in the same cables
https://pasteboard.co/ItHGbFd.png
Thanks again as normal :D
Tried a different 10m cat 6/7 cables same issue, my pc has built in WiFi so checked WiFi and was getting 421mbs down and 37 up. Then on wired was getting 20mbs down and 27 up.
Tried changing cables from switch to desktops no change. This issue only occurs when more than 1 wired connection is active.
So for example when 1 pc is in use they have full internet speed and logging onto the router (XR500) the link speed shows 1000mbits, so I turn a 2nd wired connection then the speed is throttled and the router shows the switch link speed at 100mbits.
Hope that makes it more clear?
Tried changing cables from switch to desktops no change. This issue only occurs when more than 1 wired connection is active.
So for example when 1 pc is in use they have full internet speed and logging onto the router (XR500) the link speed shows 1000mbits, so I turn a 2nd wired connection then the speed is throttled and the router shows the switch link speed at 100mbits.
Hope that makes it more clear?
And when these two pcs are connected directly to the XR router with out the switch being connected show the same thing?
- I've only got one cable long enough from the XR to switch upstairs, but I did try one pc on and then my pc on using the WiFi and it worked fine without the issues
Just curious, if this switch is the possible cause of what your seeing. Need to try this with out the switch in the mix, if possible.
- As above see if without the switch it works as expected. Also are you using a managed switch? If so this might make sense as when you connect the second device its 'QoS' kicks in. If it is managed are you able to turn of the QoS on its interface?
