Oddly not getting enough downstream

Lia Rosewood · September 6, 2019

Heyiia peeps of the LTT forum,

it's my first time posting here and hopefully this is the right place and section to do that, so you guys and gals maybe have to excuse my missplaced post ^^'

That aside, I've got a lil' problem on my hand. I recently (today) decided to get myself a Lan connection instead of the D-Lan connection (power lan) I used so far. So I got myself a brand-new Cat5e lan cable with roughly 15m in length and proceeded to do some speed testing. The results: I got about 60-90Mbit/s depending on which site I used for my tests. That's a third to double more than before, yay! :3 But the problem is my Isp (UPC, here in Germany we say Unitymedia) should provide me with more though I'm having the "2Play Jump150" plan which should get me to max 150Mbit/s, Minimum 50-70% of that. I tested the same cable on a different, older and way less "nerdy" desktop of my beloved mom which resulted in giving me 160Mbit/s!! My router/modem connects directly via aforementioned cable to my desktop and itself gets the full bandwith too.

I'm using the H81M-D Plus motherboard with included Realtek® 8111G, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s) (RJ_45). Furthermore I use Windows 10 x64 home, on the newest public stable version with all my internet, bios, etc. drivers just recently (also today) updated. Properties on my internet adapter in use say also "1GBit/s. I have some slight other issues with my internet/loading speeds on sites, but that is prolly from my old D-Lan connection or Chrome sorta being weird with it's dedicated Cache, so not really anything that should impact me getting not enough downstream on itself.

After trying like a million "fix" solutions without any results I've become very desperate. Would love to hear your ideas and I would like to thank everyone for having read all of this!

PS: English is not my native language and I'm not that into Forum formatting, so sorry that this all looks kinda cheap Have a nice day, please

TheKDub · September 7, 2019

Try clearing your browser cache, history, cookies, etc... Also try using a different browser to see if that changes anything. (Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, Etc...)

Lia Rosewood · September 7, 2019

52 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

Try clearing your browser cache, history, cookies, etc... Also try using a different browser to see if that changes anything. (Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, Etc...)

Heyi, thanks for your help.

So I tried Firefox, Chrome (cleared cache, etc), Edge and IE. Same results, though they slighty improved around 10Mbit/s in average. Sadly not the wanted speeds, but I appreciate your efforts very much!