Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family Controller

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

So i recently got 2gb fiber and i know my integrated wifi and nic card wont go above 500megs. I bought a new 2.5gb router and nic card. it is registered as Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family Controller. I cant get more than 700megs using a new cat6 wire and coming straight out of the ONT. I have changed settings in device manager controller properties advanced. i can get 1.8gb out of the modem to my wireless router... i have tried windows drivers i have tried realtek drivers nothing seems to fix this issue. Any help is appreciated. 

 

 

 

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

I also tested the cat 5 that i used to use and im still only getting 700 megs

[johnt]

Did you disable the WiFi? It might be favoring WiFi even though it’s connected with a wire.

 

also, what speed tests did you try? I would search for it in google and use theirs. Fast.com from Netflix is also a good one. Linux has a great CLI software but I’m not sure if it has a windows equivalent. Avoid using tests from your IP, at least in my experience, they give me the slowest results. 

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

Wifi is disabled. I'm using ookla. Is that not a good test?

[BillBill]

4 minutes ago, DrUnKeNTiGeR said:

Wifi is disabled. I'm using ookla. Is that not a good test?

You can try other websites for speed tests. Take the numbers and then do an average speed. Yet you can test from the same site or others and you will get a different speed each time. 

[johnt]

1 hour ago, DrUnKeNTiGeR said:

Wifi is disabled. I'm using ookla. Is that not a good test?

I'm not familiar with it, but I just ran a speed test and it was just as good as other sites so Definitely doesn't seem like the problem here

 

Edit: At least not outwardly. Still could be in your situation depending on where the server was located, but for me, it ran fine.

[191x7]

1 hour ago, DrUnKeNTiGeR said:

Wifi is disabled. I'm using ookla. Is that not a good test?

Have you disabled Green Ethernet, Energy Efficient Ethernet, and Ethernet Lite?

 

How fast is your storage?

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

4 hours ago, johnt said:

Did you disable the WiFi? It might be favoring WiFi even though it’s connected with a wire.

 

also, what speed tests did you try? I would search for it in google and use theirs. Fast.com from Netflix is also a good one. Linux has a great CLI software but I’m not sure if it has a windows equivalent. Avoid using tests from your IP, at least in my experience, they give me the slowest results. 

yea fast.com said 172 megs lol

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

1 hour ago, 191x7 said:

Have you disabled Green Ethernet, Energy Efficient Ethernet, and Ethernet Lite?

 

How fast is your storage?

its ssd

[191x7]

3 minutes ago, DrUnKeNTiGeR said:

its ssd

SATA3 SSDs top at about 550 MB/s read and about 500 MB/s write. If filled, write speeds decrease.

On SATA 2, the max is about half that.

 

2Gbps equals 250 MB/s.

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

3 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

SATA3 SSDs top at about 550 MB/s read and about 500 MB/s write. If filled, write speeds decrease.

On SATA 2, the max is about half that.

 

2Gbps equals 250 MB/s.

so your saying my internet speed is affected due to my ssd?

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

8 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

SATA3 SSDs top at about 550 MB/s read and about 500 MB/s write. If filled, write speeds decrease.

On SATA 2, the max is about half that.

 

2Gbps equals 250 MB/s.

i did a quick google search and this is what i found

 

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

2 hours ago, johnt said:

I'm not familiar with it, but I just ran a speed test and it was just as good as other sites so Definitely doesn't seem like the problem here

 

Edit: At least not outwardly. Still could be in your situation depending on where the server was located, but for me, it ran fine.

the server it connected to was 40 miles away

 

[johnt]

Do you have another pc in the house you can connect to the router by wire? Laptop is fine too. You can run open speed tests between the systems to see if it’s a network or internet issue. I believe the windows store has the server, and then you can connect to it using ip:port from another system for testing. Shouldn’t matter which machine the server is on or if one of them is 1 Gbps. You just need to saturate the bandwidth because 500 isn’t even a standard.

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

40 minutes ago, johnt said:

Do you have another pc in the house you can connect to the router by wire? Laptop is fine too. You can run open speed tests between the systems to see if it’s a network or internet issue. I believe the windows store has the server, and then you can connect to it using ip:port from another system for testing. Shouldn’t matter which machine the server is on or if one of them is 1 Gbps. You just need to saturate the bandwidth because 500 isn’t even a standard.

unfortunately i don't.. i have an eero connected straight to the ont and when my phone is connected to the eero i get about 1.7g. i have tried the pc straight to the ont i still only get around 700 megs, i have tried 2 different nic cards, i have tried 2 different ethernet cables it has to be a setting on the pc im thinking i have pretty much eliminated every other possibility.

[Blue4130]

9 hours ago, DrUnKeNTiGeR said:

i did a quick google search and this is what i found

 

Not entirely true. If you are downloading files to your computer, then you are limited to how fast your drive can write the data to the drive. (assuming that the drive is slower than the network speed.)

 

BUT speed tests like ookla and others should be doing this all in ram/cache, so you would not be storage limited by sata ssd speeds. (unless I am mistaken and they DO write to disk - can anoyone confirm or dispute this?)

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

9 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Not entirely true. If you are downloading files to your computer, then you are limited to how fast your drive can write the data to the drive. (assuming that the drive is slower than the network speed.)

 

BUT speed tests like ookla and others should be doing this all in ram/cache, so you would not be storage limited by sata ssd speeds. (unless I am mistaken and they DO write to disk - can anoyone confirm or dispute this?)

I see what your saying 

[DrUnKeNTiGeR]

Anyone have any other ideas?