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Wired speeds are much slower than wireless connection.

BananaLint
By BananaLint
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I have the comcast xfinity all in one modem + router. When I do a speed test wired I get 67/mbps. On wireless however I'm getting 98/mbps. I have reset the modem and it did nothing. I am using a laptop with windows 7. Not sure about the exact specs on it. Can someone please help me?

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Is your laptop pretty old?  Your laptop may only have a 10/100 NIC and probably very old drivers, not giving you full speeds?

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Is your laptop pretty old?  Your laptop may only have a 10/100 NIC and probably very old drivers, not giving you full speeds?

I think the laptop is about 4 or 5 yrs old. So it could be because I have an old laptop? I'm planning on building my first pc next month. Hoping I don't get the same slow speeds. Sorry but can you explain what 10/100 NIC exactly is? I'm a noob at this.

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Right click on your connection on the laptop.  Open Network and Sharing Centre.  You should see your LAN connection there.  Click on it.  What does the speed say?  100.0Mbps? 1000.0Mbps?

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Maybe your laptop has a really badass 50-80$ wifi card in it, but has horrible LAN. Or you are using a bad cable.

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The LAN says 100.0 mbps while the wireless says 150.0 mbps

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I've also tried out a CAT 5 and 5e cable. Disabled anti virus, reinstalled LAN drivers... Man this is driving me crazy!

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Based off what you've said, I think it's safe to assume that your laptop is not gigabit ethernet capable.

I'm doubtful that you'd see a difference in normal use with 67 Mb/s v. 98 Mb/s (only in downloading large files and streaming extremely high quality content) so I would say don't worry about it.

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Based off what you've said, I think it's safe to assume that your laptop is not gigabit ethernet capable.

I'm doubtful that you'd see a difference in normal use with 67 Mb/s v. 98 Mb/s (only in downloading large files and streaming extremely high quality content) so I would say don't worry about it.

Will if that is the reason that's OK. I plan on building a new PC next month anyway. MB will be a MSI gaming 5. So hopefully I'll get better speeds with that. I will also be using the TP Link Av200. Hopefully it works good.

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