Posted January 27, 2015 Today I encountered a very perculiar issue. I was trying to see why my ISP wasn't providing me anywhere near the speed that they "offered" me and noticed that if I connected directly to the modem via my desktop, I got a little less than half of the speed I was getting from my router. Router being used is the linksys e4200 v1 and I need to dig up the modem number. My computer is using the onboard ethernet port on my mobo. Any ideas as to why this may be happening? Windows 10 Edu | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | Ryzen 9 3950x | 4x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB| ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ Advanced edition | Samsung 980 PRO 500GB + Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB + 8TB Seagate Barracuda | EVGA Supernova 650 G2 | Alienware AW3418DW + LG 34uc87c + Dell u3419w | Asus Zephyrus G14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 27, 2015 Your modem is unable to provide the speeds? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 27, 2015 Author Your modem is unable to provide the speeds? Well the speeds offered to me by the ISP was 200mbps. When I hook up directly to the modem, all speed test reported ~ 45mbps. When I connect to the router, the speed test reports 91mbps. Shouldn't it normally be the other way around? Also, the ISP can't seem to figure out why I'm achieving only half of the theoretical speeds they offered me. Windows 10 Edu | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | Ryzen 9 3950x | 4x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB| ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ Advanced edition | Samsung 980 PRO 500GB + Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB + 8TB Seagate Barracuda | EVGA Supernova 650 G2 | Alienware AW3418DW + LG 34uc87c + Dell u3419w | Asus Zephyrus G14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 27, 2015 Well the speeds offered to me by the ISP was 200mbps. When I hook up directly to the modem, all speed test reported ~ 45mbps. When I connect to the router, the speed test reports 91mbps. Shouldn't it normally be the other way around? Also, the ISP can't seem to figure out why I'm achieving only half of the theoretical speeds they offered me. That's... wrong... :wacko: Good job, you broke physics. Can you ask your ISP to replace your modem? Especially if it's old. Never know what that can do to help. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 5, 2015 Author That's... wrong... :wacko: Good job, you broke physics. Can you ask your ISP to replace your modem? Especially if it's old. Never know what that can do to help. They came buy yesterday. They were baffled by it too. Couldn't figure it out and they don't see it as a big enough issue to pursue it, I guess i'm stuck for the time being. lol Windows 10 Edu | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | Ryzen 9 3950x | 4x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB| ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ Advanced edition | Samsung 980 PRO 500GB + Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB + 8TB Seagate Barracuda | EVGA Supernova 650 G2 | Alienware AW3418DW + LG 34uc87c + Dell u3419w | Asus Zephyrus G14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 5, 2015 I would suggest getting some opinions from HTML-based speed tests (no flash or other plugins). I usually use speedof.me and testmy.net for the HTML-based tests. If I remember correctly, the E4200 firmware has QoS support, so if you have that enabled, please turn it off for the duration of the test. As for the direct vs router difference, in my experience, Windows Firewall interferes with transfer speeds. Since you are connecting your computer directly to the Internet for your tests, I would not recommend turning it off. I mentioned it as a possible explanation as to why you are getting that difference. CPU Intel i7-7700 | Cooling Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 | Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix Z270F Gaming | RAM Corsair Vengeance LPX 3.6GHz 32GB | GPU EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra Gaming | Case Fractal Design Define R5 | Storage Samsung 980 PRO 500GB, Samsung 970 EVO+ "v2" 2TB | PSU Corsair RM850x 2021 | Display ASUS VP247QG + Samsung SyncMaster T220 | OS Garuda Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2015 Author I would suggest getting some opinions from HTML-based speed tests (no flash or other plugins). I usually use speedof.me and testmy.net for the HTML-based tests. If I remember correctly, the E4200 firmware has QoS support, so if you have that enabled, please turn it off for the duration of the test. As for the direct vs router difference, in my experience, Windows Firewall interferes with transfer speeds. Since you are connecting your computer directly to the Internet for your tests, I would not recommend turning it off. I mentioned it as a possible explanation as to why you are getting that difference. I gave testmy.net a whirl and got a considerably lower speed with QoS off than I did with it on. Downloads were ~35mbps with it on and ~23mbps with it off. Windows 10 Edu | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | Ryzen 9 3950x | 4x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB| ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ Advanced edition | Samsung 980 PRO 500GB + Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB + 8TB Seagate Barracuda | EVGA Supernova 650 G2 | Alienware AW3418DW + LG 34uc87c + Dell u3419w | Asus Zephyrus G14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2015 do you have your line split in a weird way (for tv or through a UPS)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2015 I gave testmy.net a whirl and got a considerably lower speed with QoS off than I did with it on. Downloads were ~35mbps with it on and ~23mbps with it off. Wow. That's weird. I normally get faster speeds with QoS off. Perhaps it is a different implementation from what I am using. CPU Intel i7-7700 | Cooling Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 | Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix Z270F Gaming | RAM Corsair Vengeance LPX 3.6GHz 32GB | GPU EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra Gaming | Case Fractal Design Define R5 | Storage Samsung 980 PRO 500GB, Samsung 970 EVO+ "v2" 2TB | PSU Corsair RM850x 2021 | Display ASUS VP247QG + Samsung SyncMaster T220 | OS Garuda Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2015 Author Wow. That's weird. I normally get faster speeds with QoS off. Perhaps it is a different implementation from what I am using. It's a possibility. I'm not to familiar with how a lot of the router tech works. My house is a weird computing conundrum lol Windows 10 Edu | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | Ryzen 9 3950x | 4x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB| ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ Advanced edition | Samsung 980 PRO 500GB + Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB + 8TB Seagate Barracuda | EVGA Supernova 650 G2 | Alienware AW3418DW + LG 34uc87c + Dell u3419w | Asus Zephyrus G14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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