Wired Network card

[bart69132]

Does anyone know if the TP-Link TG-3468 is a good wired adapter?

 

I need one for my pc because it only supports up to 100mb/s and i should be getting about 150mb/s download, would this work?

 

I get about 90mb/s download on my wired pc while my dad on his ultrabook with 5Ghz gets 140mb/s

[blu4]

As good as so many others mate. It will work, it's a 1000Mbps card.

[bart69132]

1 minute ago, blu4 said:

As good as so many others mate. It will work, it's a 1000Mbps card.

Ok going to go get it then.

[LAwLz]

You should troubleshoot your PC first. If you already have a Gigabit NIC (you do, since you got the Sabertooth 990FX) then chances are it's just your settings that are wrong, not the hardware. Getting that card might solve the issue, but you should be able to solve it without buying any extra stuff.

[bart69132]

13 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

You should troubleshoot your PC first. If you already have a Gigabit NIC (you do, since you got the Sabertooth 990FX) then chances are it's just your settings that are wrong, not the hardware. Getting that card might solve the issue, but you should be able to solve it without buying any extra stuff.

I seen something in settings about 100mb/s... how do i change it so i have over 100mb/s?

[bart69132]

14 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

You should troubleshoot your PC first. If you already have a Gigabit NIC (you do, since you got the Sabertooth 990FX) then chances are it's just your settings that are wrong, not the hardware. Getting that card might solve the issue, but you should be able to solve it without buying any extra stuff.

It says Realtek PCIe GBE Family controller, when i go onto the settings for it, it says "speed 100.0 mbps

[LAwLz]

6 minutes ago, bart69132 said:

I seen something in settings about 100mb/s... how do i change it so i have over 100mb/s?

Device manager -> Network adapters -> Right click on the adapter you are using -> Properties -> Advanced -> Look up "speed & Duplex" -> Change it to "1.0Gbps Full Duplex" -> Restart your PC and see if it works.

If that doesn't work then try reinstalling your drivers.

 

But before you do any of that you should make sure that you are not connected to some 100Mbps port. Does your dad get 140Mbps when he removes your cable and plugs his computer into the same one? It might just be that your router doesn't have gigabit ports on it. If that's the case then you need a new router, not a new NIC.

[bart69132]

1 minute ago, LAwLz said:

Device manager -> Network adapters -> Right click on the adapter you are using -> Properties -> Advanced -> Look up "speed & Duplex" -> Change it to "1.0Gbps Full Duplex" -> Restart your PC and see if it works.

If that doesn't work then try reinstalling your drivers.

 

But before you do any of that you should make sure that you are not connected to some 100Mbps port. Does your dad get 140Mbps when he removes your cable and plugs his computer into the same one? It might just be that your router doesn't have gigabit ports on it. If that's the case then you need a new router, not a new NIC.

My dad's laptop uses 5ghz wireless and gets 140mb/s download, not on wired. The router should support it because its from the company that provide the internet "Virgin Media", its called the Superhub 2

[bart69132]

8 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Device manager -> Network adapters -> Right click on the adapter you are using -> Properties -> Advanced -> Look up "speed & Duplex" -> Change it to "1.0Gbps Full Duplex" -> Restart your PC and see if it works.

If that doesn't work then try reinstalling your drivers.

 

But before you do any of that you should make sure that you are not connected to some 100Mbps port. Does your dad get 140Mbps when he removes your cable and plugs his computer into the same one? It might just be that your router doesn't have gigabit ports on it. If that's the case then you need a new router, not a new NIC.

There is a port in my room that goes down to the router, its been there for years... i don't know if that is what's holding it back

 

Speedtest of my Connection

 

EDIT: it has

• Four ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT ports

[beavo451]

3 hours ago, bart69132 said:

There is a port in my room that goes down to the router, its been there for years... i don't know if that is what's holding it back

 

Speedtest of my Connection

 

EDIT: it has

• Four ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT ports

Test by plugging a cable directly from your computer to your router. If link speed is 1Gbps, then the issue is the cable in the wall.

[brandishwar]

3 hours ago, bart69132 said:

There is a port in my room that goes down to the router, its been there for years... i don't know if that is what's holding it back

 

Speedtest of my Connection

 

EDIT: it has

• Four ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT ports

Given how long Gigabit Ethernet has been around, unless the cable in the wall is more than a decade old, it should be Cat 5E, which can handle Gigabit Ethernet without a problem. If it's Cat 5, however, that's the problem. If that's the case, the only thing you can do is upgrade the cabling, which, yes, is going to be as difficult as it sounds.

[bart69132]

2 hours ago, brandishwar said:

Given how long Gigabit Ethernet has been around, unless the cable in the wall is more than a decade old, it should be Cat 5E, which can handle Gigabit Ethernet without a problem. If it's Cat 5, however, that's the problem. If that's the case, the only thing you can do is upgrade the cabling, which, yes, is going to be as difficult as it sounds.

The cable going from the port in my room down to the router is cat5e, it was my dad that installed it and he check anyway, so thats not the problem. I tried wired on my dads laptop and it has the same thing about it maxing out at 100.00 mbps, but when i changed it to 1gigabit in the speed&duplex adapter setting, the connection wouldn't even work, i know that it should because the ethernet adapter on the laptop it says Intel gigabit... so what could be the problem?

 

Here is the link to the router that i have, it says "Four ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT ports"

[brandishwar]

And is there any additional network hardware between the router and your system, such as another switch? If there is a switch, is that switch a Gigabit switch, and if so, is the switch detecting your connection as a Gigabit connection? If all hardware is showing the link to be GbE, but Windows is not, then the driver might be the concern. If the cabling is all Cat 5E, then there must be a switch between your computer and the router that is limiting you down to a 100 Mbps connection. One of three things is true: you're not connected directly to the router and think you are, the cabling is not Cat 5E or better, or the manufacturer isn't truthful on its capability for 1GbE. If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

[bart69132]

24 minutes ago, brandishwar said:

And is there any additional network hardware between the router and your system, such as another switch? If there is a switch, is that switch a Gigabit switch, and if so, is the switch detecting your connection as a Gigabit connection? If all hardware is showing the link to be GbE, but Windows is not, then the driver might be the concern. If the cabling is all Cat 5E, then there must be a switch between your computer and the router that is limiting you down to a 100 Mbps connection. One of three things is true: you're not connected directly to the router and think you are, the cabling is not Cat 5E or better, or the manufacturer isn't truthful on its capability for 1GbE. If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

ALL the wire is Cat5e, i know this because i can actually see the cable with the writing on it. When i tried it with my dads laptop, it went from it straight into the router without anything inbetween, i went down and plugged it directly into it, as for the 1gbe, I'm sure that they wouldn't lie about it since they are the largest internet/tv provider in the UK, the router is made by netgear.

 

Here is a review of it, it has the details about it

[brandishwar]

4 minutes ago, bart69132 said:

ALL the wire is Cat5e, i know this because i can actually see the cable with the writing on it. When i tried it with my dads laptop, it went from it straight into the router, as for the 1gbe, I'm sure that they wouldn't lie about it since they are the largest internet/tv provider in the UK, the router is made by netgear.

 

Here is a review of it, it has the details about it

Not all laptops have Gigabit Ethernet, so depending on the make/model of the laptop it wouldn't show it as Gigabit regardless. But again, since the Windows is not detecting your connection as "1.0Gbps", you're either not plugged into a gigabit port (which I feel is more likely) or there is a driver problem. There must be something between your computer and the router that has you down at 100Mbps instead of at 1Gbps. You're also saying that your mainboard has an Intel NIC, but your profile says you have a Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 board, which I know doesn't have an Intel NIC onboard, so which mainboard do you have as well?

[BrightCandle]

So first things first get the laptop and a short cable and plug it into the router and confirm its 1gbps. That confirms the router is working as it should be.

 

Then use the same laptop over the cable instead to the same port, if that is also 1gbps then its your machine, otherwise its the cable.

[beavo451]

1 hour ago, bart69132 said:

The cable going from the port in my room down to the router is cat5e, it was my dad that installed it and he check anyway, so thats not the problem. I tried wired on my dads laptop and it has the same thing about it maxing out at 100.00 mbps, but when i changed it to 1gigabit in the speed&duplex adapter setting, the connection wouldn't even work, i know that it should because the ethernet adapter on the laptop it says Intel gigabit... so what could be the problem?

 

Here is the link to the router that i have, it says "Four ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT ports"

Does the laptop have a gigabit port?

 

Seeing 5e doesn't mean a whole lot. There could be a pinch in the cable or poor terminations or something else physically wrong with it. 

 

Do any of the ports on the router have indicator lights that indicate connection speed? Is there a setting in the router limiting the connection speed?

 

When you are troubleshooting, you need to minimize variables and eliminate the easiest problems to test for.

[bart69132]

1 hour ago, BrightCandle said:

So first things first get the laptop and a short cable and plug it into the router and confirm its 1gbps. That confirms the router is working as it should be.

 

Then use the same laptop over the cable instead to the same port, if that is also 1gbps then its your machine, otherwise its the cable.

The laptop has Intel Gigabit ethernet, i checked it. Ive plugged it directly into the router, not through the port in my room DIRECTLY into the router and it says speed 100.00 mbps, when i do this on my pc that is connected through the port in my room, the same thing happens, when i do a speed test they are both 7-8Ping 91Mb/s download and 10-11mbs upload, but if i use the 5Ghz on my phone i get 125mbs download and 15mbs upload, on the laptop with 5Ghz it gets about 140-145mb/s download... Im starting to think there is something wrong with the router or there is something in the settings for it, is there anything i can look for that might be the problem, i have also tried 2 Cat5e cables and i get the same results, here is all the settings i can change withing the router.

[brandishwar]

I'm starting to wonder if you have the hardware you claim to have. You are basically trying to say to us that plugging a computer with a Gigabit port directly into a router's Gigabit port and the connection is registering at 100Mbps. Absent a serious hardware failure, absent any mucking with drivers or corruption of driver files, absent a defective cable and assuming you're using a Cat 5E or better to test this, what you are saying is impossible.

 

Either your router does not support Gigabit ports, meaning you do not have the specific model you claim, or there is something seriously wrong with your router, in which case you need to get it exchanged. Or the cable you're using to plug your computer into the wall is defective or not Cat 5E and the cable you used to plug your father's laptop directly into the router is defective or not Cat 5E. Using Cat 5E or better between known Gigabit ports should result in everything being detected as Gigabit unless the hardware on either end is defective or the cable is defective.

 

It's time to start ruling out hardware. You need to verify your computer and your father's laptop both can detect a Gigabit switch. So borrow or buy a Gigabit switch if you don't have one. At the same time, you can plug the router into the switch as well to make sure the switch detects the connection as Gigabit. Actually do the router first. You can tell me all you want that you have a router that supports GbE, and at this point, given everything you've said herein, I'm saying that's impossible. If plugging a laptop with GbE directly into a router that supports it as well doesn't result in it lighting up as Gigabit, then either the router or the laptop doesn't support GbE. You either don't have the router you think you do, or you have a defective router.

[BrightCandle]

So it looks like the router doesn't actually allow 1gbps. You can likely confirm just by plugging the two computers directly too each other, they should sync at 1gbps since they both support it.

 

There is no configuration for 1gbps, it gets auto negotiated and frankly I have never seen it not work, it just happens. Heck even with a cable not up to it I have seen it successfully connect at 1gbps, even a damaged cable typically gets the full speed! Its surprisingly resilient.

 

Please stop doing anything with wireless, it doesn't mean a thing for your wired and its just confusing people. They are different things utterly and one has nothing to do with the other.