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Aug 19, 2019

Solved

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...

FURRYe38
Aug 21, 2019
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.png

Laptop 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

toxicpanda

Tutor

Aug 21, 2019

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.png

Laptop 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

FURRYe38

Guru - Experienced User

Aug 21, 2019

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.png

Laptop 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