New Motherboard 2 Ethernet controllers both wired.

[Steven_96]

Hi,

I have a new Motherboard an Aorus gaming 7 from Gigabyte. Now the motherboard comes with 2 wired onboard ethernet controllers.Which I use both through ethernet.Now I get pretty good speed from my cable company in terms of throughput and getting into websites and stuff Like that. The issue is when I download from torrent and different place like for my realtek audio drivers or My nvidia graphics card drivers. I get Like 3 or 4 mbps and I supossedly have a 150 mb connection. cause I have done a speed test more than 1 and it shows about that from speedtest.net. I have windows 10 the creator v (1709) The 2 Ethernet controllers that I have are Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, and the 2nd one is Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V and I'm using the intel teaming software with Load balancing. which I'm not sure is doing anything. My question is How can I combine both of my ethernet controllers to increase My bandiwdth meaning my speed in downloading files Like from torrent. My mbps. I have all of the settings in windows 10 turned off I also have background Intelligence transfer service set to manual (Not started) I also have my connection set as a metered connection. So I still think something is kind of stealing my bandwidth. will combing my 2 ethernet controllers increase my bandwidth. Bandwidth that I'm already paying for from the cable Company?

Thanks for now.

 

[bill001g]

A single ethernet port will run at 1gbit which is much faster than the 150mbps you buy from your ISP. Even if your machine had 10gbit ports you would still be limited to 150m.

Your issue may actually be caused by you attempting to run both ports at the same time. The killer nics also have lots of strange issues because of the so called "gamer" features that do nothing really.

I would use only the intel nic on your PC. Either uninstall or disable the killer accelerator software. This should allow you to run at the full 150mbps. If speedtest shows that speed then everything is functioning correctly.

Speedtest sites are optimized to show a best possible speed for a short period of time without the overhead you find in actual file transfers. A real download site has many factors involved that affect the download speed. Many times it is the location of the server. Speedtest by default chooses a close server. Try one in a city far away and you will see different results many times.

Pretty much other than connecting to say a second private network in your house a dual nic machine does not have a lot of purpose in a home user installation.

 

[Steven_96]

A single ethernet port will run at 1gbit which is much faster than the 150mbps you buy from your ISP. Even if your machine had 10gbit ports you would still be limited to 150m.

Your issue may actually be caused by you attempting to run both ports at the same time. The killer nics also have lots of strange issues because of the so called "gamer" features that do nothing really.

I would use only the intel nic on your PC. Either uninstall or disable the killer accelerator software. This should allow you to run at the full 150mbps. If speedtest shows that speed then everything is functioning correctly.

Speedtest sites are optimized to show a best possible speed for a short period of time without the overhead you find in actual file transfers. A real download site has many factors involved that affect the download speed. Many times it is the location of the server. Speedtest by default chooses a close server. Try one in a city far away and you will see different results many times.

Pretty much other than connecting to say a second private network in your house a dual nic machine does not have a lot of purpose in a home user installation.

So with all the videos that I'm watrching on combing the two ethernet controllers together to make one super fast connection they are talking about people that have a slower connection that I do. I mean I'm just curious though I used to get faster connections when I was on windows 7 what I mean by a faster connection I'm not talking about throughput. That's fine. I'm talking about just my MEGABYTES or megabits per second is all when I download. I would Like a program to give me what I already get from my cable company (Comcast) I have tried with just the Intel controller. And I have also tried with just the Killer. with no luck. I would still like to use both the ethernet controllers at the same time. If you have a solution. I would have to purchase another network right? And then use a third party software?

Thanks!!

 

[bill001g]

If speedtest runs at 150mbps then your network is fine.

If you get slower download speeds on some locations it is nothing in your house that is causing it. It can be the path to the server or the server itself.
There is nothing you can do about it. Try downloading from microsoft and see what you get they have better connections that most.

 

[Steven_96]

If speedtest runs at 150mbps then your network is fine.

If you get slower download speeds on some locations it is nothing in your house that is causing it. It can be the path to the server or the server itself.
There is nothing you can do about it. Try downloading from microsoft and see what you get they have better connections that most.

Okay last comment.So what you are saying is that combining both my adapters together having 2 networks won't make a difference given the amount of bandwidth that i'm paying for from Comcast right? And it will not help with giving me back the Kilbytes persecond that I'm paying for that I should be getting right?? And could you tell me what combining 2 networks and 2 network adapters does?? Is this method only for throughput and that's it?

 

[bill001g]

It has no purpose in most home networks. It is purely a feature the manufactures add to the list of features to try to get a longer list of things than other manufactures. They are betting on lazy consumers who think more is always better....with no though if they can use it.

The feature was used on servers. Lets say I am a large company and have a 10gbit internet connection and I have a server that I provide video services. If the server only has a 1gbit port I can not use my 10gbit internet. With 2 1gbit ports I can use a total of 2gbit. There are servers that used to bond 4 and 8 ports.

The main issue is port bonding does not actually load balance the traffic so a single user can not use more than 1 connection. The only reason it works is if you have large numbers of remote machines it will by random put session on each connection and you get more bandwidth. If you are very unlucky it could in theory put all the traffic on a single connection and leave the other one unused.

If your house had a internet connection that was faster than 1gbit you still would not really be able to use more because of the small number of machine you have and the ineffective method it uses to load balance.

Now even in the corporate installation port bonding is dead. Server just use 10gbit or even 40gbit ports rather than mess around with bonding multiple 1gbit ports together.

 

[Steven_96]

It has no purpose in most home networks. It is purely a feature the manufactures add to the list of features to try to get a longer list of things than other manufactures. They are betting on lazy consumers who think more is always better....with no though if they can use it.

The feature was used on servers. Lets say I am a large company and have a 10gbit internet connection and I have a server that I provide video services. If the server only has a 1gbit port I can not use my 10gbit internet. With 2 1gbit ports I can use a total of 2gbit. There are servers that used to bond 4 and 8 ports.

The main issue is port bonding does not actually load balance the traffic so a single user can not use more than 1 connection. The only reason it works is if you have large numbers of remote machines it will by random put session on each connection and you get more bandwidth. If you are very unlucky it could in theory put all the traffic on a single connection and leave the other one unused.

If your house had a internet connection that was faster than 1gbit you still would not really be able to use more because of the small number of machine you have and the ineffective method it uses to load balance.

Now even in the corporate installation port bonding is dead. Server just use 10gbit or even 40gbit ports rather than mess around with bonding multiple 1gbit ports together.

Great Response I understand what you said. Thank you so much for your time!! Greatly appreciated!!