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    Help with Network Speeds on Laptop

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Fire Tiger, Apr 23, 2020.

  1. Fire Tiger

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    Hi All,

    I'm looking for some help with my laptops connection, regardless of whether I use Wifi or Ethernet, it seems to not go faster than 150mbps. I know for a fact a few months back it would easily reach 250mbps on Wifi alone.

    I have a Killer E3000 Ethernet controller and the Intel AX200 Wifi card. Ethernet shows the connection as 1000/1000 (Mbps) for Link Speed in network properties and Adapter settings shows the speed at 1.0 Gbps.

    My router is capable of 350mbps, however, my phone which sits next to my laptop can achieve 378mbps over wifi. Connecting the laptop to Wifi I consistently see 130-145mbps, which is great but I'm trying to work out why its all of a sudden 100mbps less than it used to be.

    I have PowerLine adapters which I have always had (these are what previously gave me 250mbps via ethernet), so I upgraded the cable to CAT6 but still cannot achieve greater than 150mbps.

    Diagnosis steps:

    Upgraded ethernet cable to CAT6.
    Disabled Windows autotuning of the network using - netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
    Connected direct to the router
    Changed EEE Max Support Speed of ethernet adapter to 2.5Gbps Full Duplex
    Changed Speed and Duplex of ethernet adapter to 2.5Gbps Full Duplex
    Changed Preferred Band of Wifi adapter to 5GHz
    Installed ESET Internet Security and done away with Windows Defender / Security

    Is there something else I can check or settings I can change to work out why I'm limited to 150mbps across both connections? Even connected directly to the router I get 150mbps.

    I'd rather not have to reinstall Windows and start from scratch again, I seem to be doing this every other week :(

    I really appreciate any help you guys can offer.
     
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    Fire Tiger, Apr 23, 2020
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    This can be closed. Issue now resolved by reversing the Windows Auto Tuning to Normal (netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal).
     
    Fire Tiger, Apr 24, 2020
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