Gigabit pci-e card only up to 100mb

[NXR]

Hello, i've had for years ADSL with 8mb and yesterday i got fiber at 200mb, my ISP router has 4 ethernet gigabit ports, my cable is CAT5e and i have a TP-Link TG-3468 network adapter, it says Gigabit adapter, all my speedtests shows 100mb up and down and in windows network center says 100mb, i've configured to 1.0Gbps, restarted pc and router, switched ports, installed official and windows drivers and nothing changes, always 100mb...

I have a MSI z97 gaming 3 motherboard (fried LAN port)

i5 4460

GTX1060 6GB

12gb ram DDR3

router: gr241ag

Network adapter: TP-Link TG-3468

[ZeouLs]

I just wanna know how you fried the Ethernet Port

[schwellmo92]

Do you have any other laptops or PC's, do they connect at gigabit?

[NXR]

1 minute ago, ZeouLs said:

I just wanna know how you fried the Ethernet Port

Well, i didn't, i bought the motherboard to a friend, it already came fried, probably got arrested since it's a KILLER ETHERNET PORT

 

[ZeouLs]

1 minute ago, NXR said:

probably got arrested since it's a KILLER ETHERNET PORT

this gave me contagious laughter, my killer commited suicide, so technically he is a killer? no?

[NXR]

3 minutes ago, ZeouLs said:

this gave me contagious laughter, my killer commited suicide, so technically he is a killer? no?

he WAS hahaha

[NXR]

7 minutes ago, schwellmo92 said:

Do you have any other laptops or PC's, do they connect at gigabit?

nope, only potato laptops

[Lurick]

Any drivers for the NIC by chance that need to be installed?

[paddy-stone]

Also, did you try another port on the router? some of them are configured as IPTV or WAN etc, ran into that before too. Also try another cable, pref cat 6 IMO if you have to buy one and can't make it yourself.

 

[edit] disregard switching ports... just seen you said that you had.

[NXR]

6 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Any drivers for the NIC by chance that need to be installed?

I've always used the windows driver but since i have the 200mb i need gigabit, i'v downloaded the correct drivers and installed them but still shows only 100mb

[NXR]

4 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Also, did you try another port on the router? some of them are configured as IPTV or WAN etc, ran into that before too. Also try another cable, pref cat 6 IMO if you have to buy one and can't make it yourself.

 

[edit] disregard switching ports... just seen you said that you had.

Yeah i've tried all the LAN ports, i will need more 3m of cable so i have to buy a new cable either way and for sure it will be cat6

[paddy-stone]

Does your router have an admin panel showing stats, like this

 

[NXR]

5 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Does your router have an admin panel showing stats, like this

 

my router is very limited, only things you can do is firewall and ports, closest to that is this:

[paddy-stone]

Yeah, by that you're limited to 100 on the ports by the looks of it. Nothing in the setup to change? if not you might have to get a new router.

[NXR]

this is stupid but, my network adapter is V2, on their website has driver for V1,V2,V3, only the V3 has driver for win10, i installed , during that i had steam downloading and hitted a peak of 17.1MB/s, i don't what what caused it but its stuck at 11mb/s again

 

[NXR]

I found the problem, it was the cable, i took the tower for a little trip to the living room and tried another 5e cable that i have and was 1.0gbps when i started, 200mb download and 100mb upload, i will buy a cat6, the cable might be broken...

Thanks to everyone that helped!

[NXR]

For no reason at all, today the same cable was working at 1.0Gbps, wtf, hope it keeps working!

[Madgemade]

20 minutes ago, NXR said:

For no reason at all, today the same cable was working at 1.0Gbps, wtf, hope it keeps working!

It probably has a twist in tit somewhere that caused extra interference. If you moved it about that might be why it fixed. In future you should buy Cat 6 or better for anything over like 2 or 3 meters. Usually it's almost the same price and is better made. Not all cables are equal, some cheapo Cat5e cables are worse quality and it the signal degrades then you will lose speed down to 100MBps as you saw.

[NXR]

4 hours ago, Madgemade said:

It probably has a twist in tit somewhere that caused extra interference. If you moved it about that might be why it fixed. In future you should buy Cat 6 or better for anything over like 2 or 3 meters. Usually it's almost the same price and is better made. Not all cables are equal, some cheapo Cat5e cables are worse quality and it the signal degrades then you will lose speed down to 100MBps as you saw.

yeah i moved the cable, mine has about 10m... it is the the one from my ISP, i'll buy a cat6 soon, thanks!