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Is my router slowing down my internet speed?

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I have a 500Mbs connection, and i can't really get over 4mb/s download speeds. I don't get it what would be the problem. 

 

I have a gigabit router from tp-link  : 

 TP-LINK TL-WR941ND

 

Or is there another problem ?

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I have a 500Mbs connection, and i can't really get over 4mb/s download speeds. I don't get it what would be the problem. 

 

I have a gigabit router from tp-link  : 

 TP-LINK TL-WR941ND

 

Or is there another problem ?

Are you using WiFi or cable?

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Yes it probably would slow down your internet, but it shouldn't do that to such a degree, atleast not over cable (ethernet). Did you try to connect via cable to the router and also directly to your line? What speeds are you getting?

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Are you using WiFi or cable?

 

cable CAT6

 

Yes it probably would slow down your internet, but it shouldn't do that to such a degree, atleast not over cable (ethernet). Did you try to connect via cable to the router and also directly to your line? What speeds are you getting?

 

Did not try connecting it directly yet, Its annoying its like it does not want to go past 3.9 -4.0 mb/s in utorrent and sometimes it buffers youtube videos on 1080p that never happened to me before, even when playing games downloading and watching twitch all together, no lag no nothing. Its frustrating that it should work better.

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cable CAT6

 

 

Did not try connecting it directly yet, Its annoying its like it does not want to go past 3.9 -4.0 mb/s in utorrent and sometimes it buffers youtube videos on 1080p that never happened to me before, even when playing games downloading and watching twitch all together, no lag no nothing. Its frustrating that it should work better.

if you're using utorrent you probably got viruses and that's the reason haha

 

seriously if you have a recent version of utorrent uninstall it nao. It's a pos adware since they changed in 2011 or something. qbit torrent is what I recommend because it's simple to use, open source etc..

 

Also 4.0MB/s is 32 megabits per second (your connection is 500mbps which should give you a theoretical max of 62.5MB/s)

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if you're using utorrent you probably got viruses and that's the reason haha

 

seriously if you have a recent version of utorrent uninstall it nao. It's a pos adware since they changed in 2011 or something. qbit torrent is what I recommend because it's simple to use, open source etc..

 

Also 4.0MB/s is 32 megabits per second (your connection is 500mbps which should give you a theoretical max of 62.5MB/s)

 

Ok. i will try qbit torrent.

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Try checking the QoS (Quality of Service) settings on your router. It might give priority to certain protocols and it might put bittorrent at a lower priority.

Could you also tell us which provider you are using? Perhaps they are already known for throttling certain types of traffic.

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Just because you have a 500mbps line, doesn't mean the swarm is going to be able to allocate you your max bandwidth ;)

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Try checking the QoS (Quality of Service) settings on your router. It might give priority to certain protocols and it might put bittorrent at a lower priority.

Could you also tell us which provider you are using? Perhaps they are already known for throttling certain types of traffic.

 

QoS is disabled on my router

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Your 1000Mb router is not slowing down your 500Mb connection.

 

This is simple stuff. Think about it.

 

Go to testmy.net and post back what it says your speed is.

 

EDIT:::::

 

Nevermind I just checked your router specifications

http://www.tp-link.com/lk/products/details/?model=TL-WR941ND#spec

 

You don't have a gigabit router.... so yeah, there's that.

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