Internet capped at 15mbps

[Trippsy]

Recently got an upgrade from 12 down and 1 up, to now 30 down and 2 up. Over wifi and ethernet my dad's PC gets the full speed, however on mine, it only gets up to 15 down and 2 up. I have tried switching out ethernet cables (both cat5e and cat6) and neither gave me the full speed on my PC. I then used the same cable on my dad's PC and still read 30 down 2 up, so I've ruled out the cables being the issue.

 

I dont have any software installed that I know of that would limit my bandwidth, nor is it a program running a download.

I will try restarting my PC after sending this, though I doubt that will help.

Could it be an issue with my motherboard?

 

Specs:

AT&T 5268AC router

MSI MPG x570 Gaming Plus

 

[emosun]

did you try the same port on the router as the other machine or only the cables

[Trippsy]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

did you try the same port on the router as the other machine or only the cables

Yes, I have tried almost every port on the router with each cable and they all read the same.

 

Unrelated to to reply I have figured something out just now. Figured I'd give it one last speed test before restarting and found that google's speed test gave me 15 down 2 up but Ookla's speed test gives me 30 down 2 up.

Weird right? To top it off I did it on my dad's PC too and both google and Ookla come back roughly the same on his.

[emosun]

instead of a speed test try downloading from a source that seeds at an uncapped rate to see what the actual speed is and see if theres a an issue.

[tkitch]

there's also fast.com

 

[Trippsy]

17 minutes ago, tkitch said:

there's also fast.com

 

I tried AT&T, Ookla, and Fast and they all come out roughly the same while Google continues to show innacurately. I had assumed Google would be accurate since it always was before, but I now believe that this may have been Google misreading my internet speed and nothing to do with an actual speed problem.

 

I should have tested multiple sources to begin with but I kinda forgot Ookla existed and didnt know about fast.com until now.

Thanks for the help though.

 

29 minutes ago, emosun said:

instead of a speed test try downloading from a source that seeds at an uncapped rate to see what the actual speed is and see if theres a an issue.

Not exactly sure how to go about that. I tried downloading an MP4 file from google and it does seem consistent with this chart by eyeballing it. As I said above though I think this case is solved. Thanks for the help.