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Netgear network speeds
So I have a home network with a mix of Win7 (Pro and Ultimate) and Win10 (Pro and LTSB) machines, desktops, towers, NUC and SFF laptops and tablets. Both wired and wireless. The Netgear Nighthawk XR...
Thanks for your response.
Let me now add some new complexity, to perhaps bring some clarity.
I put a Samsung tablet next to the NUC.
The NUC with an Intel Ethernet Connection I218-V got 768Mbps
With the Samsung tablet with the factory dock Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller I got 319Mbps
Switched the router switch ports, no effect on either
I did not yet switch the Cat7 cables between them.
Switched to a USB to a Ethernet adapter on the tablet and no effect
QOS and VPN are OFF in the router, running newest firmware which is older than I would like.
Router MTU is set to the Max (default) on the router at 1500
Am going to try a SuperSpeed Express Card in the slower laptop to see what that brings. Low expectations here.
Each of these three machines get an ipconfig/release and renew daily via a utility I have. It's an OpSec thing.
Do I need to somehow rebuild TCP/IP on the slow machines? netsh int ip rese?
Well, I solved it on the tablet anyway. Switching cables made no difference, resetting tcpip made no difference, turning off zone alarm made no difference. But uninstalling it did! Jumped from 300Mbps to 900Mbps. Who would have thunk it? Back to MSE for me on this one.
Now to resolve the other three slow pokes.