Speed reduced to half on Asus GL703GS
Speed reduced to half on Asus GL703GS
I've been struggling with my new laptop since the first day. For some odd reason, performance has dropped significantly—about half the speed compared to what I expect over any connection. On wired links it's around 500Mbit, and wireless 200-250Mbit. When I switch to Fedora 30, speeds jump to about 900Mbit wired and 500Mbit wireless. These numbers are from LAN-to-LAN tests using iperf3, but file transfers show the issue clearly. Most of the time I assume most activity is online, which is under those limits, but it’s becoming increasingly annoying. I really don’t want to reinstall Windows 10 if possible, yet all the tips I’ve seen—like disabling QoS or adjusting TCP scaling—don’t seem to help. Anyone have any suggestions on where else to look? I was hoping a simple Windows update or driver fix would resolve it, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I don’t have any network security software or third-party antivirus installed, so there should be nothing interfering.
Is that computer running the "Killer Network" software? That could explain why it's acting up. If it doesn’t have it, maybe it’s not the issue.
It's a standard Intel AC9560 model. If it were purely wireless, I wouldn't mind, but I'd switch to wired for heavy transfers. During initial setup, copying my 2GB game library over wired was extremely frustrating because of the speed cap—it should have easily reached Gigabit Ethernet. Also important to note, the switch connects to my iperf3 test server via 10Gbps, while the WiFi is limited to 1Gbps. I consistently achieve solid speeds with other devices, and Linux seems to run especially well on this laptop (though it's probably just because the same distribution is used on the server).
I prefer the Intel options, and even the motherboard suppliers seem to be slow at refreshing their pages.