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Dear All, I am puzzled with my Internet connection/speed due to my limited knowledge. I am seeking help. I have 125 Mbps broadband line which is connected with D-Link (DIR-841) wifi router. While My Laptop (Aspire E 14/E5-475G) connected with the router via LAN, it is getting 85-95 Mbps. Getting speed 85-98 Mbps while connecting to 2.5 GHz band and 124-130 Mbps while connecting to 5 GHz band. Now, how to get around 120-125 Mbps speed while connecting to 2.5 GHz as can’t use 5 GHz band in distance due to its limitation. I talked to ISP service personnel but instead of solving the issue he talking so many things and saying the like is working well. I am attaching few screenshots related to above statement. Hope they will be helpful. Thanks.

Hi, I currently have 2 laptops(m2 macbook air, razer blade stealth) and I'm using a this belkin docking station for one cable setup as it can support dual display for the mac: https://www.belkin.com/usb-c-dual-display-docking-station/P-INC002.html I am planning on selling my razer laptop and building a pc. I would like to keep the one cable setup to switch between the computers. I am planning to use a thunderbolt card for it with GPU pass through. My current setup works fine even in games with no drop, but I am not sure that it will handle the higher graphics in games with the new pc as this dock is USB-C 3.1(probably gen 1.) not thunderbolt. Any opinion? I have 2 1080p 60hz displays. Thanks.

I have a problem with my 3x Corsair light node pro setup. When i load animated lighting effects on more than one rgb port the effects will lag till one controller crashes. I think the bandwith from one usb 2.0 connector is just not enough to run three light nodes, so because my mainboard (aorus x399 gaming7) has not that many internal usb connectors i planed to use a 4 port usb 3.2 gen 1 hub connected to the usb 3.2 gen 2 port on my mainboard. But i dont know if the light nodes can use the bandwith because they are only usb 2.0

hey yall! first time doing this so sorry if i make a poor job explaining myself (english not first lang and blah blah blah). here i go: our home is getting renovated. ever since i know myself, our internet connection has been shitty, so i wanna make sure it wont stay that way. here is the layout that we will have: our uses: bed room 1 - parents bedroom they will have a tv there, and maybe a place for a laptop. so in this room we probably just need one wired connection bed room 2 - my bedroom im planning on having a tv and a gaming setup in my room, so i guess i will need 2 ethernet ports (maybe more if i would want to do some kind of a project) computer working room (between bedroom 1 and 2) we will have there a computer, a printer, maybe a place to attach a laptop, maybe even a second pc, and im planning on trying to make a NAS. so i guess we will need there 4-5 ethernet ports. bedroom 3 and 4 - sister`s and brother`s bedrooms they will probably have a laptop/pc at least, maybe in the future. they both are light gamers, so maybe 1 ethernet port in each room. salon we will have there a tv (maybe smart tv), probably a streamer or HTPC or both, a console (right now we have a ps3 but i home to upgrade it someday), maybe a place to hook up a laptop, and im planning on buying a VR setup (probably an oculus quest). i guess we will need there 2-3 ethernet ports. i still dont know where our central router will be located. so we are considering some options (while taking into account future proofing, bang for the back, stability etc). first of all, a Mesh connection. right now we have a mesh connection through nova (https://www.amazon.com/Tenda-Technology-NOVA-MW3-Whole/dp/B07DFQGP1K). my father is thinking of maybe making the whole internet connection in our house with a mesh network. it will probably be the cheapest option, but i am afraid it will cause reliability issues and speed issues. second option, wired + mesh we have the option to transfer cables through the walls (im thinking of Cat 6 for future proofing). now, if we are transfering cables for ethernet ports, we will probably have to use some kind of internet switch/hub right? i tried to read about how it works and im still now 100% sure i got it, but im wondering whats better. lets say we have a router with 4 ports. will it be better to connect it to some kind of a switch, and then transfering the cables from the switch to the rooms, ORRRR transfering cables from the rounter and having some kind of a mini switch in each room (for example a switch in the salon, in the computer room, in my room etc). is there a difference at all on how it will work? then there is the question about the wifi. will it be better to make a mesh connection as well, or is there some other way to connect the whole apartment to wifi? (maybe some kind of adapter that can be connected to an ethernet port.) is the way the bandwith go will somehow be different in the way i will organize the switches/mesh? or is it all comes down to what i am being provided? if someone will be able to give his/her advice on that, and maybe clear out the way that switches work, i would be more than happy to hear! thanks for reading!

Hello, I bought the B550 Vision D and I have a quick question. I want to know if the board will be able to handle 2 NVME M.2 SSDs, a high end GPU, a capture card (most likely plugged into the second PCIE slot) and SATA drives. Are there going to be any limitations? The hardware that I’m planning on installing is as follows. Ryzen 9 5900x RTX 3080 Sabrent Rocket Nvme M.2 PCIE 4 and 1xPCIE 3 Avermedia Live Duo And the SATA drives (SSDs and HDDs). From what I gather, if the 2 M.2 slot are populated, the third PCIE slot is disabled. Plus, I don’t think I would be able to plug anything in there as a thick radiator in a push/pull configuration will be in there. Any clarification would help. I already own the 3080 and I’m waiting on the 5900X. The rest I still have to purchase. Thank you very much.

Hi, How does CPU and motherboard lanes work? does storage media like SSD, NVME share lanes with GPU, therefore, sharing GPU bandwidth? For example my i7 9700k have 16PCIE lanes and my Z390 chipset have 24 PCIE? who is sharing what?

Here is a result from rFactor 2. It is a racing sim game. PCI-e 2.0 is pretty huge bottleneck for something like 980Ti or above at least. People have already talked a while in that game how it requires huge amount of PCI-e bandwith. Many racing game people play with triple monitors and likely even SLI that usually is then PCI-e x8. Can anyone mention other games where it actually matters this much? Notice that's only 1080p with AA.

I have nerver heard this before! - but my daughter came home and told me, that at her school they what to get people off using Apple products (mac, iphones, ipad), cause it´s eating much more bandwith on wan and lan than other products. It is making the wifi slower?!? Is this true? - and if yes why? - if kinda how to fix that? - if no - that why I never heard about it. (I work at an other school - as a teacher and IT-guy myself)

When using a Roku TV Stick my parents like to use this to turn their tv into a smart tv, It has no ethernet port so It can only be connected over wireless. When My parents come in from work and use the device no matter what app they may be on, my ping on Counter Strike Global Offensive spikes up to around 150ms and then quickly back down to about 40 every 5 seconds or so which causes me to slide around the map. I have troubleshooted this issue so many times, had an engineer to the house to test the line, they say no issues there. I can watch videos and streams on twitch while the roku is on and it doesnt buffer, but when I am pinging google or trying to play any sort of game or even talk in discord I lag. I have tried all sorts of ways to fix this issue, I bought a dedicated Network card with a gigabit Ethernet port for my PC that didnt change anything other than lowering the ping slightly to google when the roku isnt being used. I have also setup a QoS on a third party router using FTP and UDP ports for CSGO and still no luck putting that to Highest priority and also putting my PC mac addresss and port to highest priority hasnt changed anything either, I even used the mac address of the roku stick and set that to low priority. And also I have gone into the roku stick and limited the bandwith to 5Mbps and still no luck. Currently I live in an area in which I get "fibre" speeds. as its FTTT (to the cabinet) and copper for around 700m from my house. Which gives me speeds of 25 Mbps download and around 6 Mbps up. which should be more than enough to watch netflix and game at a reasonable ping dont you think? My point to all this is there anything anyone can suggest to me to try and fix this issue? *edit I have diagnosed it to be defiantly the roku stick by playing anything on the roku stick while pinging google and then turning it off and then seeing what the ping is like after this. I would also like to note that I am using a wired connection I have a 25m Cable running through my house to my PC and I have pinged the router/ default gateway and I get >1ms without fail.

Can anyone estimate how fast would certain games download at a 25Mbps Fiber Connection?

hi, i have i7 4790 and 16gigs 1600mhz ram, with vega 64 on 2560x1080 screen im have issues in running new intensive games, many said after troubleshooting that is due to limited dram Bandwidth and that i need better ram which mean going to a whole new rig. is that true? my memory dram bandwith is around 22gigs on dual channel. games like, Odyessey, warhammer 2, BO4, BF5

Hi, i have DDR4 8GBx2 hyperx predetor running at 2666mhz with i5 8500. current timings 13-14-14-32, as per user benchmark results i get 33GBs memory bandwith on multi core 28GBs memory bandwith on single core 51ns latency. my friend told me to increase timings to get better bandwith but worse latency. is that right? increasing timings gives better bandwith but worse latency and vis versa? which is better for gaming bandwith or latency?

hi, i have hyperx predetor 3000mhz 8GBx2 running at 2666mhz and 13-14-14-32 timings after few tweaking, with i5 8500, im getting memory bandwith of 32GBs, how can i get more if possible? i know my CPU can handle 41GBs bandwith. also, what is the last number mean (32) in memory timings? higher or lower is better. the ram out of box was getting me 60ns latency and now 50ns which is a good improvement. what is single core mean? one stick of ram? what is memory real time timings is bios? its set at auto!

Hi, I was just wondering what 448GB/s memory bandwith on the PS5 means. Can somebody explain it to me please? You can check the IGN post. Thanks!

I was wanted to know what you think about Link aggregation i keep seeing stuff that has it such as the StarTech Dual Port (PCIe x4) Gigabit Ethernet Server and Asus's RT-AC88U (AC3100 Dual-band Wi-Fi Gigabit Router). Can you really get 2Gbps on a wired connection with this?

Hi everyone, can you help me answer my questions? My brother and sister always blames me as the cause why the net is slow, why the vids in youtube buffers whenever I play DOTA2(an online MOBA). They say I consume most of the bandwith(or whatever the term for measurement of eating internet speed). They are connected via wifi with their ipads, tablets and phones, while me, my PC is connected via LAN cable. also we use internet usually at the same time of the day, at night, because we are usually out during the day. Are they right on their accusations? that playing DOTA2 is eats up bandwith that much? bytheway: I live in a country where internet speed is pain in the a**.

Does anyone know a good free piece of software that will enable bandwith monitoring for internet and network? Thanks.

Hi, my roommate got this Galaxy Note 4 not too long ago. Went he first got it and connected to the wifi, no one could use the internet without lagging like crazy, I, for one, would get a sub 1mbps speed on speedtest when testing. I, naturally, QoS'd his phone because I thought the unit might me the problem. Then he sent back the phone to amazon because he got a SEA model. Few days later, he got his NA model and it still took pretty much all the bandwith. It would kill my internet even if he's doing nothing with his phone/not using it. I QoS'd him again, but he really wants the full potential of our internet as we both pay for it. Is there any reason the Note 4 does that? My OnePlus One doesn't seem to do this at all. Without QoS, my internet would just die the moment he gets home

Hello, I would like to ask for your help. What is the problem? In short, my PC (network card, driver dunno) is caping my internet speed. From provider Im getting 300/30 Mb/s, when I connected another PC on router (with same cable) Im getting 200+ speed (thats normal). But on my main PC I have 35/4.3 Mb/s (I use speedtest.net) My PC uses MSI Z87-GD65-GAMING motherboard, and on board network card (killer). What I tried to do: Update network card driver Reset to default network settings Different browser for testing Turned off everything that uses bandwith Put network cable directly into the Optic "box" I got boost from 35/4.3 Mb/s to 170/4 Mb/s Check for viruses and malware Any ideas? Thank you for your time!

So, I was wondering: What truly makes a gpu faster than another? Until yesterday, I was under the impression that the core clock speed was all that matter. After researching more(currently) I am under the impression that memory bandwidth, memory speed, texture/pixel fill rate, compute performance and architecture is all that matters. Is this true, or am I wrong? If I'm wrong, please correct me. Thanks in advance for your help! 1 more question: Does the 980 have 2 maxwell cores or 1 maxwell core?

Good day! I'm from the Philippines and my internet connection is very slow. I have a Sun Post Paid Broadband 3G Pocket Wifi which is supposed to have an "UNLIMITED" load on internet connection. When I still had my old PC a couple of months ago, the connection was fast. I could download at 30 kbps - 40 kbps (peak hours) to 200 kbps - 700 kbps (off-peak hours). But when bought a new rig just this month and started downloading, all I'm getting is 0.1 kbps - 3 kbps (peak hours) to 0.1 kbps - 30 kbps (off-peak hours). This is slowing many things for me and my family. My wife couldn't do her business transactions online anymore. My daughter couldn't go to wikipedia without waiting for almost 3 hours before she could get into the site. I couldn't watch video tutorials anywhere on the internet anymore. I even had to wait an hour before I could log in here. None of us even do gaming on our internet connection just so that we could do our desired tasks on the internet everyday. Maybe someone here or anyone from the Philippines could give me a step by step instruction on how to speed up my internet connection. Please help. I don't want to think I'm wasting our money now paying for this crappy connection because we still had a good connection a couple of months ago. And honestly, this is the cheapest we could afford on a monthly basis compared to Globe and Smart.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194842-a-simple-new-circuit-design-could-double-cellular-and-wifi-bandwidth

I've got some pretty fast internet and i barely use any of it, it just seems like such a waste. Is there anything useful i can do with this?

Watching Linus's video on RAM speed: http://youtu.be/dWgzA2C61z4 It made me think about RAM and Virtualization. After googling a bit I could not find anything about non-ECC DDR3 RAM. So what do you guys think: What latency and frequency is recommended for Virtualization (VMware workstation, Virtualbox etc.) ?

First of all, hi to every body. I've been watching Linus and his team for a time now, and today I went through a little question for my self.. So after a hour of searching in the Internet I thought ¿Why don't I ask the experts? (Community) So here I am, and this is the question: · ¿Why isn't there a MoBO with a 990FX Chipset and some PCIe 3.0 slots? (Im aware on the SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R20) So I'm going to buy a new GPU thought on the new R9 280x... But its PCIe 3.0.. I have a 2.0 PCIe MoBo ¿Would I have any Bottle necking? ¿Any recomendations on GPU's? (Please note the price on the 280x and so that I live in Europe) [system specs: · OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit · GPU: GTX 550Ti · CPU: FX-8150@4,2 · MoBo: GA-990FXA-UD5] (Srry if it's not the right place for the post. Srry again if my English is not so good, I'm from Spain...)