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Previous Next Sort by votes. Dec 21, 2 0 10 0. All of a sudden the WiFi download on my personal Dell laptop seems to be capped at 5 Mbps on a connection of 40 Mbps. Laptop is right next to the router. I was getting 40 just few days back. Just not on WiFi. Same cap when connected to hotspots as well, so it's definitely something with the machine. The upload seems to be fine. Please help. All references are in Mbps.
System Info Windows 10 Pro Version Prostar Computer Dignified. Apr 11, 2, 1 16, It's sounding like either a failure with one of the cables or the card itself. You've gone through all the hoops besides replacing it, I think that may end up being your next step.
Did you already check the settings for the card through Device Manager? To do that, you can either go to Start Menu and search for View Network Connections or you can click the small network icon from the system tray and select Open Network and Sharing Center. Now double click on Local Area Connection and take a look at speed.
If it show 10 Mbps that means your connection is limited and is not working at full speed. Under the Network Card Name you will see Configure. Check the picture below:. After you click Configure , a new window will appear. Now select the Advanced Tab. As default, you might have selected the Auto Negotiation option, but if you have a faulty router or bad network drivers or any other problems, you can change the speed to Mbps Full Duplex.
Now click OK and the connection will be restarted and your internet speed problem should be resolved. Plug into a different network, they detect that they are now elsewhere and won't apply the same settings. It's possible a previous configuration issue has instructed that program to limit Internet to 12 Mbps when it's on that particular LAN. Maybe the program was told "My Internet connection is 10 Mbps" instead of for example simple typo and it then shapes the traffic accordingly with the upper cap set.
Other programs try to figure out the max speed by running a speedtest periodically. If the speedtest website used in the background is slow from the location it's run, it can have applied incorrect upper limits. If your router isn't singling out that one computer and you have gigabit over the LAN already then there's not much left to blame.
A last option to check into is VPN usage. If that computer finds itself connected to a VPN service, all Internet traffic could have been funneled through such a tunnel and slow things down considerably. If you can't find local software like this, just head to a site like www.
It was Smartbyte preinstalled by Dell. Clearly it did its magic on the first boot and stored those settings for that network. Subsequent networks the machine was plugged into were not capped which is why swapping to my house and straight to the cable modem gave full speed as those were considered different networks and had their own settings.
Wow, so this was software! That was my first gut-feeling, but since you said when you changed networks it ran fine, I naturally moved on to other potential issues. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.
Very strange situation and I would appreciate any ideas please. I have tried all these things with no change: -ran a cat6 line through the hall to the closet just to test -plugged this one PC directly to the router instead of switch -unplugged all workstations and server and ran just the one slow PC alone on the network, all equipment was powered off for 5 min and rebooted for this.
I am not overly familiar with having a domain server in the network which is why I'm asking for help here. Clearly something in the network is causing this. Open new ticket Watched. The winners of this year's E3 bingo contest were promised site logo changes for game launches of their choice. Read here for the full schedule! Forums Discussion EtcetEra Forum.
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This started on Thursday, June 7th where I was starting to get half of my download speed on my desktop. Thought rebooting the router and the modem would fix it, but no. Even after everything I've done listed below I still have half download speed on my desktop, but my upload is normal.
To preface, I have Windows 10 Pro, I didn't do any recent updates for my computer when this happens. I barely update and reset my computer as is, so updating wouldn't be the issue. Rebooted router and modem several times, including leaving them off of power for at least 5 minutes, half speed.
Comcast came and checked all my connections and made sure everything was working as it should be. Hell, the guy gave me faster internet speed than before, half speed.
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