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R7000 not doing gigabit ethernet
My nighthawk r7000 isn't doing a gigabit ethernet connection to my PC with Asus m5a97 motherboard that does gigabit connection the light is amber Im using cat 7 ethernet cable and when i look at ethernet settings the speed is set to auto no idea why it's doing this any ideas
I don't know what you're seeing, but one thing (I believe) that I've
observed is that a computer with a wake-on-LAN feature, when running on
stand-by power, may use only a 100MHz link rate on its network
interface. Then, when the system is fully powered up, the network
interface should re-negotiate the link rate, and switch to 1GHz. I can
imagine a case where the router is negotiating once, while the computer
is in its stand-by/slower mode, and, for reasons unknown, not
re-negotiating later.
If this were the case, then disconnecting and reconnecting the cable
while the computer is powered on (and the OS is running) should cause a
proper re-negotiation.
Assuming that your computer has an active Ethernet interface when
it's "off" (stand-by power only), and you may have LED indicators at
each end, then you may be able to see it's slower ("fast" = 100MHz) that
way, and if it does better when the OS takes over, and/or if you
temporarily pull the cable.
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- If the light is amber, then the connection is running at 100 Mbps instead of 1 Gigabit. The Ethernet cable could be bad. BTW, Cat 7 is not an official cable type for Gigabit Ethernet. The highest official type is Cat 6A.
It is easy to overlook "bad cable" syndrome. We all assume that a cable that works just fine will continue to do so. The other day my network connection from my main PC slowed to a crawl. Swapping out the cable brought it back to life.
- Tired 2 cables and the cake has improved my ping and speed I know cat 7 isn't official yet but they r good cables I don't believe it's the cables I'm also greeting same to my lg tv but that might not have gigabit ethernet can't seem to find out
