Hey, is it my mother board making my internet really slow with wires or wifi?
Hey, is it my mother board making my internet really slow with wires or wifi?
I just bought a new computer system, but the download speeds are only 1/5th of what they used to be. My other stuff and my roommates' computers all get about 200 to 300 Mbps when they use a 300Mbps internet service provider. However, even after I did a fresh install (and even a reinstall) of Windows, or set up a dual boot with Ubuntu, the download speed stays low between 40 and 50 Mbps every time. It doesn't matter if I'm using my PCie ASRock Wifi Card or my built-in ethernet card from an Intel device. I don't lose any packets, gaming on this new system has no spikes in ping, and speed tests with Ookla and Fast.com show nothing wrong. Here is what I have tried so far: resetting the router and modem, updating the BIOS, changing every driver on the motherboard's page to test both Windows 11 drivers from Asus and my own drivers, buying new cat6 ethernet cables (the port is flashing orange), reconfiguring NIC properties in Device Manager for link speeds and other settings, updating the OS, removing my wifi card and only using the ethernet ports on the router, switching router firmware, resetting Winsock, flushing DNS, releasing and resetting IPConfig or running nbtstat -rr, and booting Ubuntu directly onto my hard drive to test speeds there.
Here are my system specs: ASUS Prime z590-v Motherboard, RTX 3080 graphics card, I7-11700kf processor, 32GB of RAM running at 3200Mhz speed, a 1TB WDC SSD and a 1TB Toshiba HDD. The computer runs Windows 11 Home on 64-bit architecture. The Ethernet Network Card is an Intel® Ethernet Connection l219-V with Driver Version 12.19.1.37 installed as AsRock 802.11 Dual Band/Bluetooth Wifi Adapter. I thought my motherboard was broken, but everything else works fine and I never disconnect from either the wifi or ethernet connection when booting on Ubuntu. It also isn't a windows issue because that computer shows different speeds too. Am I missing something?
Do you run Ubuntu as a virtual machine or did you dual boot? Usually, I suggest people test on Linux from a USB stick first so they don't hurt their Windows setup. If two different computers work fine on both systems but one doesn't, it's probably a hardware problem. But if both Wi-Fi and Ethernet are broken, then nothing else can tell me what's wrong. Weird errors about memory or CPU speed would mostly only affect the network without hurting other things too. So let's try normal troubleshooting steps first. Turn off IPv6 in your network settings. Some Asus motherboards come with a bunch of extra stuff called "gamer" tools that load when you turn them on. We should unplug those now. They used to be named LANfirst, but I think they are just using CFOSspeed behind the scenes. Whatever software says it speeds up one type of traffic or does quality-of-service management, get rid of it too. Even though IPv6 might apply to both systems, that bloatware doesn't run on Linux computers anymore.
I couldn't find any signs of CFOSpeed, even though I booted up using a USB drive. Turning off IPv6 didn't help at all, and neither did cutting out Windows Autotuning.
Did you get any good results? I am kind of in the exact same spot as you ðŸ˜