Wireless vs Wired

[Kopaii]

Okay, so I built myself a new gaming rig about 5 months ago. Since my room is in the attic of my house, at the time I wasn't allowed to run a 15 metre ethernet cable from my computer all the way down stairs to my router. Instead I got a USB wireless ethernet adapter and I have been using that. It achieved 5mb/s download and 1mb/s upload. It wasn't bad until recently I bought a CAT 6 ethernet cable as I am now allowed to have it wired. While the wired connection achieves 18-20mb/s download, it can barely start and upload test on www.speedtest.net. This has confused me, so I did another test. I tried to upload a 100mb mp4 file to YouTube with the wireless adapter, my CAT 6 cable and a CAT 5e cable that was given to me. Using the wireless adapter I was able to upload the file with no problems at all. With both of the cables however, it wouldn't even reach 1% of upload in 2 hours. This is very strange and I am rather stumped for ideas. I tried re-installing the motherboard's on board LAN drivers but it has made no difference. I have tried using all the different RJ-45 ports on two different routers and neither of them could upload the 100mb file to YouTube. I have reset and completely un-plugged and re-plugged the routers in along with the phone lines and such but still no luck.

 

I am using a Biostar A960D+ motherboard and using the onboard LAN that claims it is capable on 1GB/s.

The two routers I am using are two different ones given to me by Sky, my ISP.

 

Any help/ideas on what is going on?

 

Thank you very much in advance.

[T.Vengeance]

Ping your router and see if you're losing packets while using the ethernet cable. Some bends in it might cause packet loss.

[Profquast]

Do you have the High Speed Lan app installed? If so, remove it. Also try pinging your router and see if it's the cable or another problem.

[flibberdipper]

Ping your router and see if you're losing packets while using the ethernet cable. Some bends in it might cause packet loss.

What he said. Also, make sure it isn't trying to use your wireless adapter and the wire at the same time. That might cause some funkiness.

[Kopaii]

I pinged my router 10 times. I got a 1ms ping, sending 40 packets and losing 2. I am unsure if that is bad/good. I do not have the High Speed Lan app installed either and when I use the cable I unplug my wireless adapter.

 

Any ideas?

[T.Vengeance]

I pinged my router 10 times. I got a 1ms ping, sending 40 packets and losing 2. I am unsure if that is bad/good. I do not have the High Speed Lan app installed either and when I use the cable I unplug my wireless adapter.

 

Any ideas?

You should be losing zero actually.

 

 

My suggestion is trace the cable and make sure there isn't any doors kinking it, or that it isn't bending, or curling.

[Kopaii]

So losing 2 packets out of 40 is bad? I tested again, with both cables this time and both of them had a 0% packet loss rate...

[prolemur]

You should be losing zero actually.

 

 

My suggestion is trace the cable and make sure there isn't any doors kinking it, or that it isn't bending, or curling.

is that ethernet or wifi?

[T.Vengeance]

is that ethernet or wifi?

Ethernet, cat 5. It's pretty long too (not as long as his, but mine is 40 feet).

So losing 2 packets out of 40 is bad? I tested again, with both cables this time and both of them had a 0% packet loss rate...

Oh nevermind then. Maybe that was a fluke? In that case, I'm not sure what's the issue here.

[Kopaii]

The problem is I'm getting 0.01mb/s upload speed on a wired connection. It's practically impossible to open up any web pages (including the 192.168.0.1 router thing). They all say either error code 400: Bad Request or just time out.

[T.Vengeance]

The problem is I'm getting 0.01mb/s upload speed on a wired connection. It's practically impossible to open up any web pages (including the 192.168.0.1 router thing). They all say either error code 400: Bad Request or just time out.

Maybe it's MAC filtering? (highly doubt it but maybe). Use your Wifi to log into your router's page and check if your MAC filtering is affecting your connection. Or maybe QoS is enabled and you're allocating only kb/s to your ethernet.

[Kopaii]

I checked, it's not anything to do with MAC filtering.

[Kopaii]

It is also nothing to do with QoS as it isn't even available on my routers.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

You need to have WiFi off when you use wired for one, it causes a lot of issues if you run both simultaneously. Secondly, go into Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings > right click your Ethernet adapter > Properties > Configure > Advanced > Speed and Duplex and make sure it's not set to a 10Mbps link, or half-duplex.

[Kopaii]

It is set to 1gbs Full Duplex. Also, is there anything I should do to make sure it's still not trying to use the wireless? I already unplugged it from my computer.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

If it's unplugged, and not showing in the Network and Sharing Center (under "Change Adapter Settings") then you're fine. If it is, just click it, and click disable.

 

EDIT: If you have the connection speed set manually to 1Gbps, and the hardware on the other end is not also set to 1Gbps, you will have problems from that, resulting from a mis-match.

[Kopaii]

Yeah, it's all disabled. Any other ideas?

[prolemur]

Ethernet, cat 5. It's pretty long too (not as long as his, but mine is 40 feet).

So is mine... almost always 0ms

[Kopaii]

I tested all the different thingies and 100mb/s full duplex seems to have slightly improved things but it's still failing to even start uploading files...

[T.Vengeance]

So is mine... almost always 0ms

Ohh you were talking about the ping? Idk there's something up with my router. I tested it when someone was using my connection, but now that it's free, 

 

it's still about 1ms.