Question Connection speed issues

[Paxreacher]

Good afternoon,

I have recently switched from a copper connection to FTTP

My network set up looks like this - FTTP (940Mbps) connection (Cat6) to 1Gb WAN port on ASUS AX88U

I have my laptop - MSI Raider GE78 connected to the router via its 2.5Gb LAN port using Cat5e connected to the AX88U 1Gb LAN port

A speed test using Ookla shows a 940Mbps connection

When I come to download games/programs, regardless of the client I use (Steam, Xbox, Blizzard, EA etc) I only get a maximum of 10MB/s. With a 940Mbps connection I should be seeing around 100MB/s

So far I have:

1. Reset all the Hardware,
2. Tried both Wifi and Ethernet
3. Tried various clients but still only get a maximum of 10MB/s
4. Both network card and router show a Gb connection
5. I have switched off QoS packet scheduler on the network cards and there is no QoS set up on the AX88U

Any ideas what i could try next ?

 

[bill001g]

Although I don't see it as often on laptops look for software that claims to accelerate certain traffic..mostly you see it with games.

This software comes bundled with the bloatware on motherboards and video cards. Asus tends to be the worst offender. A very common name is cfosspeed. You want to uninstall any program like that you might have running on your machine. They may for example think they should limit download speed just in case you want to play a game while downloading.

What is strange is speedtest is actually a file download and upload it just does not keep the file. The other difference is this is a web based download where thing like steam use their own downloader. You could for example try to download a large windows install image from microsoft and what the download rates in the network tab of resource monitor. Be careful some values are in bytes and others in bits.

If it was just steam I would blame steam. I get extremely inconsistent results depending on what game I download. Some run at full speed other run extremely slow. So far I have not seen any real pattern to what things are fast or slow.

I doubt it is something actually network. Unless your router for example could figure out that it was some app other than the web browser I can't see why the traffic would be different. Things like drivers or ethernet cables have no concept of what application is running.

It has been a while since I have seen people report it but if it is only speedtest that shows the proper results it could be the ISP up to no good. ISP used to rig their system to allow traffic to speedtest or allow fast traffic for short periods of time to make the speedtest look good but they were actually limiting the traffic far below the rate they adverise.