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Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
I just connected my pc via ethernet cable (Cat5e) to the nighthawk r7000. It blinks red and is running at 100mbps, instead of 1 gb. The troubleshooting steps I have already done are as follows. ...
Okay so I purchased a ethernet cable tester, turns out the cable was indeed bad. I went ahead and created a new cable, and it does have a gigabit connection.
Lesson learned dont trust your laptops lan port, try more than on device, and most likely it is the cable.
When plugging it in, the pc asked me to allow it to connect. After that I disabled the LAN port and enabled it. Tried to update drivers, however drivers were up to date. Power cycled the modem, computer and router.
A strange test do you have 1 gb switch to place between the router and the computer's lan port to see if the 1 gb speed returns reminds of another there were speed issues the switch fixed it.
I was able to borrow a gigabit switch. I placed the computer into the switch and the router. The computer is still showing 100 connection while the router has the white light blinking instead of red where the switch is placed in.
dbehremo wrote:
I was able to borrow a gigabit switch. I placed the computer into the switch and the router. The computer is still showing 100 connection while the router has the white light blinking instead of red where the switch is placed in.
If you swap the PC->switch cable with the switch->router cable, does anything change?
This is looking more and more like the PC NIC. Perhaps try a second test connecting it directly to the cable modem.
Connecting it directly with the cable modem gives me 1gb speeds, just tried it.
My cat5e cable is the only 15 ft cable I have so it is difficult to test out a different cable with the desktop. But I will try to figure something out. It was just strange that same cable gave me 1gb on my laptop.
