Question Killer E2200 slow wired upload speed

[helpseeker22]

Hi.

I have a Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97 motherboard with the E2200 Ethernet controller.

My internet connection is supposed to be 100/75mbit. Speedtest only gives me ~104/40.

I had a support person from the ISP come over and plug in his laptop to the same cable and same output I'm using, and he got 100/80. He also showed me their internal software proving they are "feeding" me 105/80.

This controller seems infamous for issues, which is why I've been able to find plenty of previous threads about it.

I've already uninstalled drivers, installed newer drivers, installed older drivers, installed Atheros AR8161 drivers (apparently the same chipset without the branding), installed the modern "control center" software, uninstalled it, installed the old "network manager" software the motherboard originally came with, uninstalled it, scrubbed the PC clean with the "Killer Software Uninstaller". I also played with the "Large Send Offload v2" settings as that was recommended by someone.

Nothing has changed a thing. Obviously I've restarted and retested between each step.

I am using Windows 10 Pro N 64bit "Version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.1526)". I have no router, the RJ-45 plugs directly into the wall. No other devices are using this connection. My ISP offers up to 1 gbit speeds on this line, so I am nowhere near the hardware limit of the building infrastructure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bill001g]

You have done all the most common things to fix this killer chipset mess. It is very hard to say exactly which drivers work and which do not. They would fix it and then break it again.

I would first try a linux USB boot image. This should indicate if it pays to keep trying to find better windows drivers or if there is some strange issue with the hardware itself.

What maybe simpler though is to just get a add in ethernet card they are pretty cheap.

Since you are looking at a fairly slow internet connection you could even use a USB2 ethernet adapter. Best is still internal cards and then USB3 ethernet.

I think there must be a lot of people that used to check if a motherboard had a killer chipset and immediately put it on the list of do not buy. Now that intel has them you do not see these hardware issues but now even intel is packaging their stupid "gamer" qos bloatware but you can just uninstall it.

 

[helpseeker22]

You have done all the most common things to fix this killer chipset mess. It is very hard to say exactly which drivers work and which do not. They would fix it and then break it again.

I would first try a linux USB boot image. This should indicate if it pays to keep trying to find better windows drivers or if there is some strange issue with the hardware itself.

What maybe simpler though is to just get a add in ethernet card they are pretty cheap.

Since you are looking at a fairly slow internet connection you could even use a USB2 ethernet adapter. Best is still internal cards and then USB3 ethernet.

I think there must be a lot of people that used to check if a motherboard had a killer chipset and immediately put it on the list of do not buy. Now that intel has them you do not see these hardware issues but now even intel is packaging their stupid "gamer" qos bloatware but you can just uninstall it.

Thanks.

I am wary of any file transfer over USB. In my experience the speeds are never as advertised, not even close, no matter which devices I have used, regardless of price.

Would something like a TP-Link TG-3468 be a reasonable PCI-E network controller? Should I pay premium for a more expensive model?

Also is it just my local PC stores or do network adapters with rj-45 intput AND wi-fi not exist? It would be nice to have the option to hotspot if I am going to buy a separate network card.

 

[kanewolf]

Thanks.

I am wary of any file transfer over USB. In my experience the speeds are never as advertised, not even close, no matter which devices I have used, regardless of price.

Would something like a TP-Link TG-3468 be a reasonable PCI-E network controller? Should I pay premium for a more expensive model?

Also is it just my local PC stores or do network adapters with rj-45 intput AND wi-fi not exist? It would be nice to have the option to hotspot if I am going to buy a separate network card.

I think you missed @bill001g point. He is recommending an alternate OS -- USB portable Linux. Nothing related to USB file transfer.

 

[helpseeker22]

I think you missed @bill001g point. He is recommending an alternate OS -- USB portable Linux. Nothing related to USB file transfer.

What maybe simpler though is to just get a add in ethernet card they are pretty cheap.
Since you are looking at a fairly slow internet connection you could even use a USB2 ethernet adapter. Best is still internal cards and then USB3 ethernet.

I'm not going to bother with another OS if I can fix it with a 12 dollar part. Should've been my first thought, probably.

 

[helpseeker22]

Well, this is truly odd. I purchased and installed the TP-Link TG-3468. It changed nothing.

I still get 105/40, and the Speedtest even behaves the same way. Download goes up right away as it should. Upload goes up to ~18, then slowly climbs to 40 before the test is over. It does this every time. On the repairman's laptop it the upload shot up to 80 right away.

So I suppose we've ruled the network card out of the equation. What on earth could it be? The motherboard? The Windows installation?

I have no Antivirus or Firewall software beyond the features built in to Windows 10.