Speed loss through internet switch?

[Bakemono858]

I am trying to split two ethernet connections and using a gigabit switch (Netgear GS105). For whatever reason I get a little bit lower speeds than hardwired to the router as well as disconnections while gaming. I can completely use the internet and youtube just fine, but I get huge spikes randomly while playing anything. I've done speed tests throughout the days and it will always dip down low enough to the point where I am assuming it's disconnecting. Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks!

[Bakemono858]

Now that I'm hardwired from the router, I'm getting the same disconnects but less frequently... Going to just contact my isp.

[swordsman247]

2 minutes ago, Bakemono858 said:

... Going to just contact my isp.

Good plan

[brwainer]

Unless you have a loop, i.e. two ethernet cables between the router and switch without *both* being set for LACP or a manual link aggregation, a switch should not cause degraded speeds in the slightest. What you may be seeing though is that background communications on a modern computer can easily hover around 100kbps constant. For some reason I have especially seen this with cFosSpeed (the Asus branded version, I forget what they call it) running on one computer, it generated a constant 140kbps traffic on the network that I could verify was from cFosSpeed but never investigated further into what it was doing (I just uninstalled it).