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I recently got a new Dell 5577 Laptop. I love it so far and most things with it work great. The only thing that seems to be driving me nuts is the speed of the WiFi. I test thru speedtest.net and the speed test app on my phone. The first picture is from my laptop... 48.92 Mbps...

I am definitely checking the same drive and folder. I was hesitant on unplugging it from the router, thinking the files may get messed up or corrupt depending what state they are in. Maybe I'm over thinking it.

I've recently began going back to school, and I wanted to make sure I could access my homework anywhere in the house. So I setup a little 40GB external HDD as a mapped Network drive thru the USB port on my router. In theory I figured it would very nicely saving things from my desktop and access...

So after our back and forth yesterday, I went into my router settings. I used it's built in setup wizard, just to see if that will detect the ethernet cable being used compared to all WiFi as I used to have it setup. I thought it seemed to work. I check what my NIC was linking at and it said...

Alright, thank you for taking the time to try to help me out. Maybe I will have to take a chunk of my left over cable and try different things to see if I can get it wired properly. And I guess if worse comes to worst, might have to run new cables thru the walls if something got damaged. Again...

The only way I was checking my speed was with the ookla speed test site on my PC and my 2 other cables with my PS4(I know it's not accurate). When I was just testing the cables themselves I was using a standard network cable tester. I had to use patch cables from the tester into the female ends...

OMG, I'm sorry I must have totally overlooked that. It is 100 Mbps.

I don't seem to have anything like that to click. Here is a capture of my Network and Sharing Center screen: https://imgur.com/vxUPjkL Update - According to my motherboard's specs, it's chip is 10/100/1000 Mbit

How can I find that out? I currently just have it plugged into my mobo port.

I have been looking for an answer for this everywhere and from everyone I felt might know. I spent the majority of my 4 day Thanksgiving weekend setting up ethernet cables running to 3 rooms in my house. Just to give as much info as possible here is how I have it setup: in my closet I have my...

So I did some more testing, only to come up with no solution or answer to my problem. I used an ohm meter checking the connections between the wires and blades in the female ends. Everything seemed to be connected properly. I then tested my patch cables again making sure those were still good...

I will have to double check how well I have the wires seated in my female ends. I just found it odd that 2 different wires had 4 and 6 missing. That's why I felt like it had to be something that I was missing. Thanks for your input, got more testing to do now.

The last couple days I've been running wires and trying to setup my home network. In my closet I have my modem and my wireless router. From the closet I ran ethernet cables to a couple different places in my house. I have three cat6 RJ45 inserts that I personally connected to the ethernet...

Thank you for all the help really appreciate it!

Not sure if you are still checking this thread, but do you think my drive being a WD Green HDD has anything to do with it? Maybe being "green" doesnt allow it to have enough power for the speed?