Wired connection slower than supposed to be

[shaedyelnady]

As of recently my wired connection has gone from downloading at a max speed of ~6,5 mb/s to 1,1 mb/s. I have not changed or touched anything. It happened overnight when I turned off my PC and I wonder what kind of issue it is and if i can fix it without replacing anything, also my network usage seems to be around 90-100% when around the 1.1mb/s download speed. Thanks in advance!

 

[Mark RM]

are you sure windows update isn't downloading in the background?

What tasks are using the network bandwidth when you look at task manager?

 

[shaedyelnady]

No window's isn't downloading as I updated it yesterday and nothing is using any Network, sometimes a background app uses 0,1Mbps but that seems to be max.

 

[captaincharisma]

what kind of internet do you have? cable, DSL, Fibre

 

[shaedyelnady]

Cable

 

[captaincharisma]

if cable internet is still the same as it has been in the past you are sharing it with your entire street or building. so if someone is using a lot of bandwidth in your area it can cause a performance hit on your end. you should contact your cable company to find out

 

[shaedyelnady]

Sorry my mistake, I seem to be using DSL. Anyway I do not believe it is a fault with the Internet company due to the fact that the rest of the devices all have a 6,5 mb/s download speed. So I still wonder how to fix it.

 

[anotherdrew]

also my network usage seems to be around 90-100% when around the 1.1mb/s download speed. Thanks in advance!

What program/utility are you using to determine this? I assume you have 100Mbps or 1Gpbs lan ... 1Mbps is nowhere near 100% of what your hardware should be capable of doing.

I assume you are doing a speed test. When you do, you are testing everything between you and server hosting the test. To ensure the problem is on your end (ie, stuff you and your ISP can control), I would run tests from a couple other sites to ensure it's not a problem with the test site you tried.

 

[shaedyelnady]

I've attempted to download a game with Steam, then I've tried it through Uplay. And then I've used speedtest.net and the speedtest on the site of my provider