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Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
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.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
The pc gets a 1gb connection if I have it directly wired to one of the ports on the modem. The pc is a desktop. I have ran a gigabit network on it with my previous router/modem combo. I tested the same cable with the laptop and it works fine.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
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.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
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.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
Does the network driver on the PC have a setting to control the speed of the port? If yes, try setting it to Auto. I've read of instances (not specific to Netgear) where forcing the speed to 1 Gigabit can be counterproductive.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
I remember of a past posting that a 10/100mb lan had problems with the a netgear's 1gb port they could only get a very low speed on that lan feed. It was a older lan card the poster had but the 1 gb switch fixed the issue I can see a possible that new and old want to fight the switch seem to stop them. I understand that a gb lan port on a older computer should be the same standard as today but some how they do not also see eye to eye and go to war.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
If you have another ethernet cable, then I suggest you try that. Though I suspect it will behave the same way (based on the other tests you've run) it's still worth a try.
@dbehremo wrote: I tried to look for one but didn't see anywhere that I could change the speeds.
Try selecting the adapter in the windows device manager. With Intel NICs there often is a "Speed & Duplex" settings included in the "advanced" tab of the NIC properties.
If you see a setting for "energy efficient ethernet" (or similar wording) try turning it off, and see if there is any difference.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
I don't think it'll matter, but the manual setting for "gigabit master slave mode" would be slave. If it makes no difference, set it back to auto-detect.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
I manually set duplex mode to the 1gb option. The computer did not even detect the ethernet cable pluged in. Tried power cyceling both pc and router still nothing, so switched it back to auto.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
So I went on intels site, there is a new driver. I downloaded it, and unziped it. Then instal wizard ran. Went through the whole proccess. It completed. Then checked back on device manager, and ethernet port still has same driver from last time.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
On the driver: try rebooting the PC.
Overall: The common denominator in the testing is the PC, everything else seems to be working at 1 gigabit.
I'm thinking this is most likely a marginal connection in the PC NIC port or possibly the cable. Putting a gigabit switch between the router and the PC might work around the problem.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
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.
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.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
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.
Re: Wired Ethernet line to pc is running at 100mbps instead of 1gb
I am beggining to suspect it is the cable
Maybe the laptop for some reason is always reading 1gb connection?
I just hooked up the cable in question from router to gigabit switch, and the connection on the router is blinking red. When I connect the laptop to the switch, connection on laptop states its 1gb but when running a speed test, speeds do not go over 95mbps, however when connecting said laptop directly to router with another cable i get 118mbps.
