On Friday (Sept 9), the motherboard on my main computer (ASRock Z77 Extreme4) crapped out on me. What I did was install my hard drives, Blu-ray drive and graphics card from there into my gaming PC (it houses a Gigabyte GA-H77-N WIFI motherboard) instead and reinstalled Mint 17.3 Mate.
When I started downloading the latest updates and software I noticed that my internet connection through my LAN port was running real slow (it reached 4KB/sec at one point). I thought there was something wrong with Comcast so I unplugged the modem and our wireless router for two minutes and plugged everything back in. I still had the same, slow connection. I plugged the cable in the other LAN port. Same connection speed. The internet connection for my other computers on my network\ run at the 100+ Mb/sec speed.
I also disabled my wireless connection (since I'm using an ethernet cable for internet). I made sure that nothing came loose when installing the hardware. Everything is fine. I even switched out the LAN cable, plugged my computer directly into my router, plugged it into my modem and surfed the net through a Mint Live CD/USB. I get the same slow connection.
So I reinstalled Mint 17.1 again (Cinnamon instead of MATE), downloaded the updates, upgraded to 17.3 and installed the Realtek 8111/8168/8411 driver (r8168-dkms). After all that I still get a slow internet connection. I don't know what to do!
Here's some info in case someone can help me (I removed my MAC addresses from this post):
http://pastebin.com/Af4kjnkq
When I started downloading the latest updates and software I noticed that my internet connection through my LAN port was running real slow (it reached 4KB/sec at one point). I thought there was something wrong with Comcast so I unplugged the modem and our wireless router for two minutes and plugged everything back in. I still had the same, slow connection. I plugged the cable in the other LAN port. Same connection speed. The internet connection for my other computers on my network\ run at the 100+ Mb/sec speed.
I also disabled my wireless connection (since I'm using an ethernet cable for internet). I made sure that nothing came loose when installing the hardware. Everything is fine. I even switched out the LAN cable, plugged my computer directly into my router, plugged it into my modem and surfed the net through a Mint Live CD/USB. I get the same slow connection.
So I reinstalled Mint 17.1 again (Cinnamon instead of MATE), downloaded the updates, upgraded to 17.3 and installed the Realtek 8111/8168/8411 driver (r8168-dkms). After all that I still get a slow internet connection. I don't know what to do!
Here's some info in case someone can help me (I removed my MAC addresses from this post):
http://pastebin.com/Af4kjnkq
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