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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 ether...
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.
Ok so have no real clue why but after messing around changing cables around it is now getting gigabit connection with the PC and same cable set up as when I first tried so no clue why it's now working but it is lol
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.
- Yeh guess it could be something like that j not sure why after changing cables 3 times it worked on original cable but it works now