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Really sorry you're still having problems. At this point, since it seems like you've covered every troubleshooting step imaginable, I would consider purchasing another network controller something like this or a PCI equivalent. That will "resolve" all issues and save more headache attempting to troubleshoot your onboard Ethernet. It's possible it's actually a hardware fault. Not likely, but consider it a definite possibility at this point.

 

I know that's not exactly the answer you're looking for, but it's all I can provide. Good luck, hopefully it starts working randomly ha.  :rolleyes:

 

Well. I honestly do not know what I did or what happened, I'm stumped. But I noticed things loading quicker this morning, so I did a speedtest, and sure enough:

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This is over powerline too, and I've now got the highest speeds in the house.. Not that I'm complaining at all!

 

Thank you all so much for your troubleshooting ideas and time, I really appreciate it!

 

Let's just hope this isn't some fluke and it stays this stable...

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Hi guys!

 

So I've been having this issue for a while now, pretty much the same time I upgraded my PC.

 

My Upload speeds are fine at ~0.9mb/s which is good for our area (1mb/s max on our line), however, my download speeds are doing terrible. The speeds are inconsistent and much slower than I should be getting. I'm expecting ~18mb/s (21mb/s max on our line, was getting ~17.5mb/s previously) but am currently getting an absolute max of ~7mb/s, and that's with the speeds peaking. This is making it impossible to watch YouTube videos in more than 480p. It also seems to have this weird issue where it almost seems to get bored of a task and would stop buffering/loading it until I refresh the page. It is also worth noting that no other computer on the network is having this issue, both wired and wireless - They are currently managing to get about 17mb/s with no peaks.

 

I'm connecting using Ethernet going directly into my router. I've already tried reinstalling my mobo's internet drivers (I believe. The drivers seems a bit of a mess on the ASUS website). The mobo is an ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition.

 

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks!

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Do you use a VPN? What's your router model? 

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Sorry to bump my own thread, but I'm still having this issue and I'm yet to find any resolution.. Any help would be appreciated.

 

And now half of the time the speedtest trails off to nothing and doesn't finish the download... The screenshot below is after 5 minutes, where the speed slowly goes down...

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Does this occur on other computers on the network? Sounds like a problem with your ISP. Call them.

As I stated in the original post it's only my computer. I've contacted my ISP and they can see no faults on the line. The other devices on the network are getting about 16mb/s download.

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As I stated in the original post it's only my computer. I've contacted my ISP and they can see no faults on the line. The other devices on the network are getting about 16mb/s download.

 

My bad, didn't see that part.

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Any other ideas? I'm really at a loss here, and it's getting very frustrating. I can't watch YouTube videos in 240p half the time, gifs just fail to load and half of the time I can't use google... 

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open CMD and tr ipconfig /flushdns     then do a speed test, by the looks of it your speed in the speed test is inconsistant and goes up and down in speed. Could be bat routes for your network traffic.

 

Go to BT.homehub.com or something, to accses your router settings and change the Wireless Channel you are using and check the speed it says on it, It may say 14Mb/s then the next day 28Mb/s etc, it tells you your current max speed witch can vary for many reasons. also best to contact BT.

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open CMD and tr ipconfig /flushdns     then do a speed test, by the looks of it your speed in the speed test is inconsistant and goes up and down in speed. Could be bat routes for your network traffic.

 

Go to BT.homehub.com or something, to accses your router settings and change the Wireless Channel you are using and check the speed it says on it, It may say 14Mb/s then the next day 28Mb/s etc, it tells you your current max speed witch can vary for many reasons. also best to contact BT.

That's given no results I'm afraid. As stated in my original post, I'm connect via an ethernet cable, so my hub reports my speed of 100 Mbps. My ISP have also said they have found no faults on my line.

 

I've also just done a fresh install of windows and the same issue is happening. I installed ROG GameFirst II this time to monitor the traffic, and it appears as though my computer simply get's bored of the data and decides to stop downloading it...

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check your bios for a update and anything else like Ethernet drivers etc  not sure atm will have to think about it and at work.

That's given no results I'm afraid. As stated in my original post, I'm connect via an ethernet cable, so my hub reports my speed of 100 Mbps. My ISP have also said they have found no faults on my line.

 

I've also just done a fresh install of windows and the same issue is happening. I installed ROG GameFirst II this time to monitor the traffic, and it appears as though my computer simply get's bored of the data and decides to stop downloading it...

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check your bios for a update and anything else like Ethernet drivers etc  not sure atm will have to think about it and at work.

 

I've just now performed a BIOS update and apparently the drivers that came on the CD were up to date. The speed is obviously there, for example, If I go to a YouTube video in 720p, the first 7 or so seconds buffer instantly, the rest won't buffer at all.

 

Thanks very much for your help so far!

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Hmm... Well, you've done some pretty good troubleshooting so far.

 

Have you simply tried using a different cable and different port on your router? It's possible your cable may have gone bad.

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Hmm... Well, you've done some pretty good troubleshooting so far.

 

Have you simply tried using a different cable and different port on your router? It's possible your cable may have gone bad.

I thought this as well, as I use a powerline connection to my router. I've tried both a different cable and port, as well as a laptop over my current cable - The laptop got 15mb/s stable.

 

After my reinstall of Windows, I cannot watch any YouTube video past about 7 seconds no matter what I try and do, and am unable to download chrome.

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I thought this as well, as I use a powerline connection to my router. I've tried both a different cable and port, as well as a laptop over my current cable - The laptop got 15mb/s stable.

 

After my reinstall of Windows, I cannot watch any YouTube video past about 7 seconds no matter what I try and do, and am unable to download chrome.

 

Hmm... Then I am at quite a loss here.

 

This won't necessarily help, but it may give you slightly more info:

open up cmd prompt and type in

ping google.com -t

and show us your results after 30 or so rounds. are you getting huge spikes in latency? timeouts?

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Hmm... Then I am at quite a loss here.

 

This won't necessarily help, but it may give you slightly more info:

open up cmd prompt and type in

ping google.com -t

and show us your results after 30 or so rounds. are you getting huge spikes in latency? timeouts?

 

Sometimes, yes, I will get a period of time where a download would just stop for a moment, and then continue. It'll then most of the time stop later on and just not carry on, and it takes me several attempts to download something sometimes.

 

Ping results as you asked:

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Small info update. It mainly seems to effect any tasks that require a constant download for a period of time. Games and such work fine, but pages full of images render blurry, gifs load half and then break, and downloads stop halfway through, and of course YouTube gives up after 7 seconds.

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Download TCPOptermizer and look for a tutorial on it  or use its own settings things, QoS (Quality of Service) may be throtoling your bandwidth for priority trafffic. Normal with BT it is Set at 10% 

I thought this as well, as I use a powerline connection to my router. I've tried both a different cable and port, as well as a laptop over my current cable - The laptop got 15mb/s stable.

 

After my reinstall of Windows, I cannot watch any YouTube video past about 7 seconds no matter what I try and do, and am unable to download chrome.

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Download TCPOptermizer and look for a tutorial on it  or use its own settings things, QoS (Quality of Service) may be throtoling your bandwidth for priority trafffic. Normal with BT it is Set at 10% 

 

TCPOptermizer provided no better results. Still unable to even download google chrome with it active.

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You said you were using powerline to connect to your router. Does this problem persist when you connect directly with a LAN cable to your router? Without the powerline adapter?

 

I have tried this as well. The issue still persists.

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This is a good example of what's happening. Downloading drivers from Nvidia, and the first time I do it, it downloads a little then simply stops (Top image). After a couple of restarts of the software, the image below is the result.

 

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Are you torrenting something? I don't know that specific router and provider, but some routers firmware can't handle p2p traffic.
Have you ruled out the firewall? (or port forwarding)

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