Question Wife has Faster LAN Connection?

[Therow]

You need a new modem

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/cable-modem-router/tc-7610/#specifications

Only up to 343 Mbps

or downgrade your plan to 300Mbps.

I really don't understand why people need 1Gbps internet ?

You know, I think I actually have 300 and not 1g lol — I'm a mess, I'm sorry.

 

[USAFRet]

You know, I think I actually have 300 and not 1g lol — I'm a mess, I'm sorry.

So all is working fine?

 

[Therow]

So all is working fine?

So far but see my prior question about the solid orange and green lights on the two ethernet ports if you could?

 

[Therow]

Ok, I am having the same issue.

I started the download for ff14 since the wife and I were thinking about playing that again and her download speed is 25 and mine is like... 1.4 and I started the download about 10-15 minutes before hers. Its driving me mad trying to figure this out. I thought for sure the cables were the issue but it doesn't seem that way.

*Edit* I just downloaded the Realtek ethernet driver since someone else said it might be that. No change. Specifically I downloaded the Realtek PCIe FE / GBE / 2.5G / 5G Ethernet Family Controller Software.

https://imgur.com/SS2mzs9

 

[lantis3]

I wonder whether you were downloading the file from a different server than your wife.
Gaming companies have a lot of servers with different IP but with same domain name and rotate these servers frequently in order to do load balancing. You just happened to be directed to a very slow server quite often?

use Network Traffic View & CurrPorts to see if that's the case

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_traffic_view.html

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

And check ethernet link speed when it's slow. We don't care what led color it's blinking / solid because each vendor is different.

 

[Therow]

I wonder whether you were downloading the file from a different server than your wife.
Gaming companies have a lot of servers with different IP but with same domain name and rotate these servers frequently in order to do load balancing. You just happened to be directed to a very slow server quite often?

use Network Traffic View & CurrPorts to see if that's the case

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_traffic_view.html

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

And check ethernet link speed. We don't care what led color it's blinking / solid.

How do I check link speed?

Also, in previous tests on the front page of this thread it looks like I was routed to one server and my wife to another when we did the speed test. It might be a routing issue, I suppose. Not sure how I'd go about fixing that but I'll look into the links and do some google searches in the AM when I wake up. Thanks for the help!

 

[lantis3]

How do I check link speed?

Control Panel, Network and Sharing Center, you will see connected network icon. Click the adapter.