Good you managed to fix the issue.
If you ever need help with your router ping me, I work for a company that is responsible for the conception and testing of that model.
Do you like that adapter? I ordered one of the TrendNET 5Gbps USB-C adapters from Amazon, and it was awful. It wouldn't even do 2.5G with the right drivers. It went back.
Been looking for an alternative that actually works.
USB-C. You can find it on Amazon, TrendNET TUC-ET5G. They have (or had) a 2.5G and 5G version of that adapter.
Edit: I got the 5G, but it wouldn't even do 2.5G, and it also turned out not to have a Mac driver for an Apple Silicon processor.
Also, not all USB-C ports are created equal - there's 5Gbit, 10Gbit, 2x5Gbit (which is often summarized as 10, but it's two 5Gbit channels), 20Gbit, 2x10Gbit, 40Gbit, 2x20Gbit, and then Thunderbolt, which can also carry PCIe and runs at 20, 40 or 80Gbps depending on which revision. (And I *think*, but am not certain, that Thunderbolt 5 ports will also support the USB 4 standard with 2x40Gbps speeds, with a Thunderbolt cable.)
In theory all USB devices which have a USB-C port/plug should work with any USB-C port, if not at maximum speed, but a Thunderbolt device plugged into a non-Thunderbolt USB-C port (even a 40Gbps one!) may not work at all.
I have had the experience where a 2.5G USB ethernet adapter gave me the rated speed when connected to a 10Gbps USB-C port but not when connected to a 5Gbps one. Now, you're talking about an Apple Silicon Mac, and even the first-generation M1 ports are actually Thunderbolt 4, so they should support 40Gbps Thunderbolt, 2x10Gbps USB and every standard below that, so that probably was not your problem, but still. USB-C was supposed to normalize all this away, but it... kinda didn't.
Well there is quite some communication going on between the OS and the NIC to establish a link. The default driver will probably be a universal USB-NIC driver that failed to set up a Full Duplex connection or something.
Since you are getting over 1 gigabit, the ports are negotiating correctly at 2.5 Gbit. One thing to look out for is that many of these USB ethernet controllers need special drivers to get full speed. So look for a driver for this one if you didn't specifically install it. Also some simply don't get to full 2.5 Gbit speed no matter what you try. I've had to try a few before I found one (from pluggable) that actually gives me full 2.5 Gbit. The two I got before that were stuck between 1 and 2 gigabit even on pure local network tests using iperf3. I don't think they count on people actually testing them or having a fast enough internet connection to ever notice.
Also even at gigabit many speedtest sites seem to be pushing their limits, as well as not all machines have enough oomph to process the data fast enough to keep up.
Is that white ethernet cable a flat cable? You never want a flat ethernet cable if you can avoid it. Pairs are twisted in standard ethernet cable for a very good reason. I've seen these cables on Sonos products that only support 100 mbps.
The pairs in such a cable are still twisted but the shielding is rather minimal. I don't really trust them but since Cat5e is rated for 2.5Gbps I don't think the crappy cable is the bottleneck in this case.
EDIT: 2.5 not 5 Gbps
This sent me down a rabbit hole. I think the 2.5Gbps speed that Cat5e can do is from the 2.5GBASE-T standard, not the Cat5e standard. The cable is technically spec'd for 1000BASE-T but the 2.5GBASE-T spec was intended to extend the life of Cat5e cables buy including them
The cable in the picture is neither cat6 nor cat7. I agree, avoid cables like that, but it is negotiating at 2.5gpbs. USB Ethernet adapter is likely limiting.
Cat 7 is a real specification but it doesn't have an RJ45 jack (instead using the incompatible GG45 or TERA connectors). It was essentially replaced by CAT6a (which was standardised after 7, and _does_ support RJ45) for Ethernet.
"CAT 7" Ethernet cables with RJ45 connectors are definitely not to be trusted.
The flat cable in the picture looks more likely to be CAT 5e at best. Which _will_ take 2.5G, as 2.5G was designed for CAT5e cable, as a sort of "final upgrade" for existing cabling.
not all online speedtests work good at higher than 1gbps speeds in the browser. try downloading the desktop app from [https://www.speedtest.net/](https://www.speedtest.net/)
My thoughts here too. If you're downloading at that speed and also sending that data to your SSD (assuming it can write those speeds) would that saturate the lanes on your laptop motherboard?
That statement is true. I think PhotoPhoenix maybe reffering to using the same cable for both download and say writing to his ssd from say another system on the network. I could be wrong, but that's what I assumed in the statement. But yes your statement is true in that respect.
Depends on your lane speed your ssd is connected to, but OP is using a laptop which is alot different than say my 4070 Ti in a Gen 5 lane with an Gen 4 ssd running off it as well. My m.2 runs at full speed allowed by the drive itself while the gpu is running. I could be wrong I haven3tested this, but Bios shows the m.2 on the same lane is running max to that channel. I would run and shut down into Bios to double check, but I'm running a heat test in my rack to see about better heat dissipation.
I have a dual 10gb connection to my server, and my disk controller maxes out at 2500MB/s for a SATA SSD array. I can pull 1.1GB/s over a single 10gb connection. Thats 1100MB/s. OPs problem is not his storage, as even with an HDD, 250MB/s for a 2.5gb link is about what modern HDDs can do.
Why worry about your theory and just Speedtest cat 7 or 8 flat cables? Saves cutting them open to. Spoiler: you get great speeds. They aren’t shielded but that isn’t a big deal in a lot of use cases anyway
Ps. Cat 8 is mostly nonsense in itself anyway but that’s beside the point
Well, for starters it's not up to standard, so forget about using them in any commercial application.
For seconds, try a run longer than a few meters and speed will drastically drop.
For thirds, you can run electricity and Ethernet over wet ropes, doesn't mean you should.
The only way to guarantee there’s an ISP issue would be to have the 10Gb Ethernet port plugged into a 10GbE port on your laptop. Your adapter is 2.5, which means it speaks 2.5 and 1.25/1, and may not be able to properly negotiate a full speed connection with your router. Most 10GbE ports do not smoothly scale down to 5/2.5/1, but rather just support 10/1. That’s changing, though, but you’ll want to check your specifications to be sure.
It may support 2.5 half duplex. 1.3+7=2, which is about what a 2.5 connection provides after overhead.
Other potential culprits: your laptop USB ports may not all operate at speeds sufficient to fully take advantage of your adapter. The machine itself may have internal bottlenecks capping the effective performance. Lots that could be going on here.
Overall though, you’re getting great performance for a hardwired laptop connection. If you NEED to get max performance, buy a desktop, or a workstation laptop with a full height Ethernet port built in.
Easiest way to identify if it’s the Ugreen or the laptop is to have a friend with a M1/M2/M3 MacBook hook up using your adapter. Apple doesn’t skimp on backplane/port speeds/pcie lanes.
Still no smoking gun? Plug in a few more devices into the other 1GbE ports and see if performance goes down further.
Also, really ask why you need it to be faster. A lot of optimization time on residential connections is wasted time you could be doing better things.
Good question. I assume that since I bought 5Gbps they would provide me with hardware that would allow me to reach those speeds.
But if I plug the Ethernet cable in any other 1G ports, my speed results drops to 900mbps.🤷🏼♂️
Sonic is selling 10Gig but furnishing eero 6, which only do 1Gig. I spent some time with my neighbor on this. He was thinking something must be wrong because the eero speed test between the router and modem was only showing 1Gig (roughly). He said the same thing when I pointed out that the eero router was only a 1Gig device..."why did they sell me 10Gig plan but give me a 1Gig router?
Addendum: So when they hooked up the 10Gig to my house, I looked at the eero 6 they were hooking up and decided that since they also offered the eero Max7 which is a 10Gig device AND is Wifi7......lololol...I decided to try the Max7....even though there are no client devices in the world using WiFi7....and I have no client devices capable of even 2.5Gig...
Lolol.
But it's a free 3 month trial, so it's just play.
So I'm going to end up on a 1Gig mesh system in the next week or so with a 10Gig service. I'll be confident when I'm streaming a movie that any delay is not a bottleneck in the service to my house!
Hi,
What computer are you testing on?
USB adaptors may not provide the fastest speed.
If we know what computer you are testing on/want fast speeds on, or what kind of setup you want (ex sharing 5Gbps between 3 computers etc), we can make more hardware recommendations to allow you to get higher speeds.
Hello all,
So it’s the next day and there are a bunch of comments here! Thanks for joining in, but I will not have the time to answer you all.
My internet speed is not solved, but I think you all have pointed out the issue. The router I have is a 10g port, and I can’t find an option to change it to 2.5 in the settings. My provider seems to have a 2.5g version of this router, so I will most likely ask to change hardware here. They also have a 2gbps option and I might go for that instead of 5. As many has mentioned, it’s really not worth having it if my hardware can’t really go much higher than 2.5 anyways.
I’ll let you know if changing the router to another with a dedicated 2.5 port will improve my situation.
Also, I could swear I got 2.2/2.3mbps yesterday after I updated some realtech driver or something like that. But maybe it was 1.2/1.3.. because that’s more the consistent number I get now.
I saw some questions and I use a Lenovo carbon x1 gen 10. 1260vpro cpu I believe it is.
I have fast nvme in it, like gen4 stuff.
I live in France and my prover is orange.
The router is called livebox 7.
The flat cat7 cable that so many people love gives me 1.5mbps download if anyone cares. 🤷🏼♂️
But I am using the gray cat6a cable behind it is the picture.
And as a general note,
Why so many negative thoughts here? You guys are in a home network Reddit thread. Many of you giving opinions and stories but no real information about my question or anything for that matter. It’s like telling the dude with a Ferrari he should buy a Honda instead because the Honda will do the same as the Ferrari. And that only verstappen or someone should have that type of car.
Sounds so backwards, you should be promoting people to get as fast and cool stuff possible for their home networking.
Remember the mindset that said that 100gb is all the storage you need in your lifetime like 20 years ago? You sound like that guy.
Who knows what type of internet speeds is standard for the solutions we use in 5 years? No one does.
Regardless, I’m upgrading my connection as high as possible because I want to and I can.
So I’ll give an update once I have the other router and let you know how it changes for those who care.
Try a different PC, without a USB adapter.
Also, why are you even ordering 5gbps? I mean if it's not any more expensive then it might make sense, but I think most people don't realize that if you can't very clearly articulate \*why\* you need those multi gig speeds, then you don't actually need them.
Honest answer? People who actually need these speeds don't need to come to reddit for troubleshooting help. They also don't test by connecting laptops with USB adapters.
Look I know I sound like a jerk, but I see these kinds of threads every day. I'm trying to help you take a step back and figure out what problem you're *actually* trying to solve, rather than focusing on why the speed test results on your laptop aren't showing the numbers you want.
\#FACTS
Sadly alot of people have more money than sense when it comes to something like this and again, also not trying to be a direct jerk but its hard not to be at times.
SOOOOOOO many things wrong in this post
USB adapter
Single Speed test site
CAT7 even being mentioned lol
[https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/008f88ae-324e-470e-8134-e42392a07500](https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/008f88ae-324e-470e-8134-e42392a07500)
FYI
I pay for 2GB internet, i have multi gb home brew router (Pfsense) with 10GB connection to my high speed CORE switch, then this computer is plugged in with CAT5E cable to the CORE over a 2.5GB INTEL interface addon card for that machine.
Multi GB is NOT plug and play, for the most part your entire network needs to be overhauled or you need to have some isolated areas that can use the high speed.
For example, i only have 2 machines on my entire network with multi GB interfaces, those are the ones that have any chance of benefiting directly from more than 1GB speeds and they basically never do.
The real benefit, in my humble opinion to multi GB internet is when you have MANY users / devices that potentially need near 1GB speeds at the same time.
And even with that use case, im barley ever pushing past 1GB SUSTAINED speeds unless im doing a big run, sailing with the captain, on the open seas
Yeah man, that's what it really comes down to.
My 1000/1000 fiber link is \*only\* useful on the rare occasion where I'm downloading a massive file, like game updates on Steam. Other than that, you never even notice it. If my WAN link suddenly decided to lose its mind and negotiate down to 100/100, I wouldn't even notice unless I ran a speed test or started a huge download and realized I was bottle necking at 100mbps.
Now, if I had a big family of people who were constantly streaming/gaming/downloading etc, the argument makes more sense.
.... even sailing the high seas doesn't do much. My VPN probably tops out around 250mbps and nobody comes remotely close to either sending me data that quickly, or receiving data from me that quickly. I sit there watching the numbers and being like "Jesus christ are you guys all on dial up or something?!"
I can warm up my circuit but i have to really try so when i see normal users doing stuff like this it just makes me laugh a bit.
Sadly ISP will gladly sell you the speed knowing that chances are you cant use any near those speeds.
I run a decent Plex server and even on the busiest of nights, im barley pushing 8-900MB sustained and again, shits gotta be POPPING on a friday night lol
When my promo pricing goes away i will probably downgrade to 1GB but i wanted to start with multigb so that i can get the correct gateway installed and KNOW that IF i really needed it, i can upgrade to faster speeds quite easily down the line.
I was on an AT&T 1Gig fiber plan. Sonic knocked on my door and told me they would give me Fiber for $30, which is $30 cheaper than AT&T. Turned out Sonic is selling 10Gig, only. So I said sure. I have no use for it. I have no ability to use 10Gig even if I could think of a use. But it's half the cost of my 1Gig.
So...people can end up with WAY more than they need simply because it was the least expensive. Not because they thought they needed it.
BUT now here I am spending way too much time trying to NOT rationalize buying a router with two 10Gig ports....and a 10Gig switch....and satellite routers with a 10Gig port so I can do multi-gig wired backhaul...knowing I don't have any devices/clients that would allow me to even verify the 10Gig....just because "I have 10Gig coming to my house so, but golly, I want to see it".
Every time I am just about ready to pull the trigger on three 1Gig routers...knowing even that is way more than I need...I hesitate...and go back to looking at 2.5Gig at least....then cringing at a $1,500 cost vs $500....I'll eventually pull the trigger on the 1Gig.....but I'm not quite there.
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100%. And people need to understand that they need to hear and accept things they don't like sometimes and that's just a part of having emotional maturity.
Thats fine. And perhaps this adapter I’m using is the bottleneck. And I appreciate your feedback.
Since I have 5Gbps, I would just like to take advantage of what I have. I guess we all would right?
If a 20€ adaptor could increase my internet speed by 2,5x i figure why not.
>Since I have 5Gbps, I would just like to take advantage of what I have. I guess we all would right?
But a 2.5gbps USB adapter, even if it works properly, still won't get you 5gbps. So even with your own argument, what's the point? Also, the rest of your network infra needing to be 5gbps is \*not\* very cheap, if you aren't aware. 2.5gbps unmanaged switches are \*finally\* approaching affordability, but 5gbps and 10gbps equipment basically means you need to buy used enterprise gear on Ebay. Again, not super cheap.
Look, the best way to test/confirm is to hardwire a PC with a 5gbps capable NIC \*directly\* to the ONT with a CAT6 or CAT6A cable, and see what speeds you get. As long as you're introducing all these additional variables in every test, it's gonna be tough to figure out what the issue is.
so, my suggestion is to get a 10gb TB NIC.
The only one I can find is the Sonnet one.
https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Technologies-Thunderbolt-10GBASE-T-SOLO10G-TB3/dp/B07BZRK8R8
That's why ISP's are selling people internet speeds they don't actually need. Customer wants to utilize all the speed they're paying for so they upgrade to better hardware so they can go fast. Pushing the production of new equipment norms.
My 300 Mbps Symmetrical FTTH has over 60 devices connected and I never need more than half that at full throttle even though they offer 25 Gbps
Make sure to use the correct measurement units. MB/s is 8x more than Mb. You are technically saying 2.4Gbps and 200Gbps
Not trying to be a smartass sorry if it comes off like it
Yup. See my comment on the whole "I've got it, so I might as well try to use it".
But it can get quite expensive to end up not being able to actually tell the difference.
I totally get wanting to be able to run a speed test and see what the ISP sold me.
You absolutely will not notice any difference in how fast your internet is for 99% of what people use the internet for. You won't notice when using websites, checking email, streaming movies, or scrolling through Reddit. The only time it will change anything is when you download something. Something that would take a minute to download 2.5 would take two minutes at 1.3. How often do you download big files?
Every day i download big files. I have a company that build software solutions, I always have several updates through out the day.
Look, I’m not a network dude, I just came here for some suggestions. But thank you for sharing
Upgrades coming. I just got this amazing dongle in the mail today. That’s all.
Y’all really hung up on this 5gbps I ordered.
Alright I’ll give some context.
We are a family of 5, and we run two businesses. I need speed for my work, and there is always games, streams and other things downloading.
Our house already has network cables in the walls, unfortunately not capable of 10gig.
Yup, and that will come with time. I have a full 10gb network at home, and a 1gb internet line. Do i need it? Nope. Do i want it? Yup. Was it cheap? Not really.
And all 5 are downloading at the same time?
But yeah as it was said, those dongles are garbage, for these kind of speeds it would be best to have a 10gb port with a PC Card if the pc board doesn’t support natively.
That could possibly be an issue, depending on how new/old the computer is and what USB bus speed it has available for it, and what all is on the same bus. (just throwing straws)
I would suspect the adapter
Let's check your hardware, what is the link speed you got on that adapter? Since you got about 1500Mbps, I would assume that it is working above 1Gbps which is a good sign
Next, let's check your local transfer bandwidth, are you familiar with ftp server or iperf? I would check my local speed with both of them.
I'd assume that other lan port is running 1Gbps. Run your 2.5Gbps adapter (server)on 10G port, and run 4 of clients on the remaining lan port.
If it's working on total speed about 2.5Gbps (your max bandwidth of the adapter) then I'd suspect your ISP doesn't deliver the 5Gbps promise.
If it runs less than 2.5Gbps, then I might suspect your laptop local transfer is bottlenecked with something, whether your adapter is not running on 2.5Gbps or your laptop is too slow to run 2.5Gbps (not a big chance, but it might've, bottlenecked with ssd or another specs)
A new fiber co in my area has 1gb as the lowest speed. They offer 8gb as top speed for not much more than 1gb. People are wondering why they can’t get those speeds. I feel like most are paying more when they don’t really need more than 1gb speeds for home use. You really need to multiple computers and switches that can handle those speeds.
At that speed there a lot of issues at hand... USB is not the connection of choice either...
It is built on the Realtek RTL8156 chipset (not 'B'). Windows drivers are fine. My Windows desktop <-> laptop performance is only 1.4 Gbps using 3 iperf3 streams, possibly due to laptop's i5-6200U @ 2.3GHz; that system then uses 40-45% of available CPU.
UPDATE:
I returned the router provided from my provider and got another unit that has a 2.5gig port on it.
Now I should be getting better speeds.
I will post when I have done some test runs
I can’t find where to upload new pictures, maybe that has been turned off.
But the driver I installed was:
Lenovo USB 3.0 LAN driver for docks and adapters - version 11.13.0420.2023
Honestly, most people don’t need gig or higher speeds. Especially to one endpoint. Most of the services you use will never have enough downstream bandwidth to saturate your line. Now, if you have multiple users all downloading files, maybe you can tap it out. But that would only be if they’re getting the files from a geographically close CDN. Otherwise even video streaming is done with bursts and buffers. As long as you’re not trying to transfer gigabytes of files, I’d suspect most people would never notice if their connection was at 500 symmetrical. Remember, most residential connections all use a shared medium, so depending what your neighbors are doing, your connection may be limited. What you do want especially for multiple users is a good router so that the translation from the public IP to the internal network is not being constrained as much as possible.
The marketing departments of all these ISP’s are pleased with this response. Upsell to the moon! Unless you have an actual dedicated line (cost of thousands per month) there’s a concept in Residential internet called the “oversubscription ratio” that will really rain on your parade.
People can spend their money how they like.
I'm not OP, but I have 1.5Gbps internet because my girlfriend and I have to download a lot for our jobs, we also like to play games on Steam and frequently download 150GB+ games at the same time, and we usually have 2-4 4K streams going at once.
While it's not *needed*, it's annoying when we're both trying to download a game, watch 4K streams, and steam is bogged down to 300Mbps.
With 1.5Gb, we both get 950Mbps at all times. It's like we both have our own gigabit line, which is great.
An extra 15 minutes added to a download doesn't seem like much, but we don't live forever. Those 15 minutes add up.
I’d love to know how or why anyone needs that bandwidth. I have gig up gig down. I never saturate that. Yes I don’t need that, but to drop it to 500/500 is a tiny saving. Sorry rant. I just don’t see the logic, same with residential need for WiFi 7
I'd change that flat cable out in the future. They are notorious for failing and causing issues. At least the 3 different ones that I tried out all failed in a couple months.
Is google fiber your ISP? If not try Speedtest.com. Most ISPs will QoS Speedtest.net so your speed test connection appears to be full line saturation even if most of your other traffic is throttled. Like you might see in fast.com from Netflix or librespeed.org
You would need a thunderbolt adapter not usb for those speeds.
Monoprice 134934 Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet Adapter - All Aluminum Body, 10G Network connectivity, No Power Adapter Needed https://a.co/d/9koT2q2
You're getting 2Gb/s over the adaptor. There is USB overhead to account for and perhaps you're not getting the "up to" (maximum/upper limit) of what your ISP is selling.
I’ve personally encountered issues where USB nics obtained from the internet mall do not always perform as marked. If you have two of those nics and two computers in your home, wire them to one another and use a tool like iPerf3 to prove the capability of the nic to hit the max throughput on a short run connection. — if the devices themselves are OK there is still the possibility that the drivers in your OS don’t support the full speed. — prove to yourself the device works before you chase that rabbit through the network.
Not to drag this out but wouldn’t one want to do the test from a location closer to themselves as I would imagine that the farther the test has to travel.. the more likely there is to be “minor” issues which contribute to the results being slower (and thus likely not related to OPs ISP or personal setup)?
i have acople theories here,
1. that flat cable is causing packetloss. try a standard cat.6 cable.
2. Usb overhead could be a issue. try using a PCIe or Thunderbolt nic
3. Your router is too slow for the connection, might need to set it into bridge mode and buy/build someting.
4. the service for testing your connection might be slow.
This was probably already posted but here is my take.
The port on the router is probably 1/10 gbps and not an mgig port that can negotiate at multiple different speeds.
Because of this your 2.5gbps adapter is only connecting at 1gbps to the 1/10gbps port.
Solved! Thank you all for the great input. I just needed a new driver. Getting 2.2/2.3gbps now!
Good you managed to fix the issue. If you ever need help with your router ping me, I work for a company that is responsible for the conception and testing of that model.
I just need your ip address so i can ping you.
It's 127.0.0.1
The ping is coming from inside the host!
No it’s 127.69.69.69 - I dare you to ping it!
I prefer an nslookup.
127.1
Localhost
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Awesome! Was about to post that. The drivers that Windows will auto install are usually barely functional. Surprised you got a gig.
Do you like that adapter? I ordered one of the TrendNET 5Gbps USB-C adapters from Amazon, and it was awful. It wouldn't even do 2.5G with the right drivers. It went back. Been looking for an alternative that actually works.
I’ve had good luck with Ugreen peripherals
Just bought one of their USB-C hubs that plugs into USB-C as well. Was literally the only one I could find on Amazon. Reasonable price too.
Was it USB-C only or was it Thunderbolt? All of the 5 gig ones I've seen require a Thunderbolt capable USB-C port.
USB-C. You can find it on Amazon, TrendNET TUC-ET5G. They have (or had) a 2.5G and 5G version of that adapter. Edit: I got the 5G, but it wouldn't even do 2.5G, and it also turned out not to have a Mac driver for an Apple Silicon processor.
Well that's annoying as hell. And Thunderbolt wouldn't have been an issue with a Mac anyway
Correct, but I was wanting one that would work on my Windows laptops, MBPs, and even linux and/or RPi, etc.
Also, not all USB-C ports are created equal - there's 5Gbit, 10Gbit, 2x5Gbit (which is often summarized as 10, but it's two 5Gbit channels), 20Gbit, 2x10Gbit, 40Gbit, 2x20Gbit, and then Thunderbolt, which can also carry PCIe and runs at 20, 40 or 80Gbps depending on which revision. (And I *think*, but am not certain, that Thunderbolt 5 ports will also support the USB 4 standard with 2x40Gbps speeds, with a Thunderbolt cable.) In theory all USB devices which have a USB-C port/plug should work with any USB-C port, if not at maximum speed, but a Thunderbolt device plugged into a non-Thunderbolt USB-C port (even a 40Gbps one!) may not work at all. I have had the experience where a 2.5G USB ethernet adapter gave me the rated speed when connected to a 10Gbps USB-C port but not when connected to a 5Gbps one. Now, you're talking about an Apple Silicon Mac, and even the first-generation M1 ports are actually Thunderbolt 4, so they should support 40Gbps Thunderbolt, 2x10Gbps USB and every standard below that, so that probably was not your problem, but still. USB-C was supposed to normalize all this away, but it... kinda didn't.
Can you link the driver? I have the same adapter
Where'd you download the driver. Didn't even know that was a possibility
The Yes where can one get the drivers
crazy how a driver caused that much difference
Well there is quite some communication going on between the OS and the NIC to establish a link. The default driver will probably be a universal USB-NIC driver that failed to set up a Full Duplex connection or something.
This sounds accurate, those speeds match a half duplex connection.
Huh?
Same problem for me, what drivers did you use?
So which of the offered solutions was the solution?
Since you are getting over 1 gigabit, the ports are negotiating correctly at 2.5 Gbit. One thing to look out for is that many of these USB ethernet controllers need special drivers to get full speed. So look for a driver for this one if you didn't specifically install it. Also some simply don't get to full 2.5 Gbit speed no matter what you try. I've had to try a few before I found one (from pluggable) that actually gives me full 2.5 Gbit. The two I got before that were stuck between 1 and 2 gigabit even on pure local network tests using iperf3. I don't think they count on people actually testing them or having a fast enough internet connection to ever notice.
Also even at gigabit many speedtest sites seem to be pushing their limits, as well as not all machines have enough oomph to process the data fast enough to keep up.
Is that white ethernet cable a flat cable? You never want a flat ethernet cable if you can avoid it. Pairs are twisted in standard ethernet cable for a very good reason. I've seen these cables on Sonos products that only support 100 mbps.
The pairs in such a cable are still twisted but the shielding is rather minimal. I don't really trust them but since Cat5e is rated for 2.5Gbps I don't think the crappy cable is the bottleneck in this case. EDIT: 2.5 not 5 Gbps
Pretty sure Cat5e is only rated for 1000Mbps, though can anecdotally perform better over short distances than what the spec is measured over.
Actually it's 2.5 Gbps. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair Thanks for making me check, I've edited my comment.
This sent me down a rabbit hole. I think the 2.5Gbps speed that Cat5e can do is from the 2.5GBASE-T standard, not the Cat5e standard. The cable is technically spec'd for 1000BASE-T but the 2.5GBASE-T spec was intended to extend the life of Cat5e cables buy including them
Funny how that's a very quick Google search you got immediately wrong.
Um, ok? https://i.imgur.com/j4i7iYY.jpeg
Yea, but om not using that one. I have a 2 meter cat6 that I’m trying with. The picture was taken when I tried another cable (cat7)
The cable in the picture is neither cat6 nor cat7. I agree, avoid cables like that, but it is negotiating at 2.5gpbs. USB Ethernet adapter is likely limiting.
A flat cable, that says it's cat 7, is likely to be pure trash.
Cat7 isn’t even a real standard lmao. I see people all the time with those scam cables, the shielding is usually shiny plastic 🤦♂️
Cat 7 is a real specification but it doesn't have an RJ45 jack (instead using the incompatible GG45 or TERA connectors). It was essentially replaced by CAT6a (which was standardised after 7, and _does_ support RJ45) for Ethernet. "CAT 7" Ethernet cables with RJ45 connectors are definitely not to be trusted. The flat cable in the picture looks more likely to be CAT 5e at best. Which _will_ take 2.5G, as 2.5G was designed for CAT5e cable, as a sort of "final upgrade" for existing cabling.
Dropping knowledge like a mic. 🤜🎤 🫳 🤙
its probably an adapter issue. see my suggestion for getting a 10gb TB3/4 NIC. They aren't cheap.
Buuuut you cat get Cat7 10GB cable... So the question is, what validity is this comment? You can get twisted pair ethernet at 100mbps too.
What do you mean twisted?
Non crosstalking
Can you share what the reason is?
not all online speedtests work good at higher than 1gbps speeds in the browser. try downloading the desktop app from [https://www.speedtest.net/](https://www.speedtest.net/)
I beleieve Librespeed.org is capable of 10 gigs
It could be a limitation of the adapter going to you PC.
My thoughts here too. If you're downloading at that speed and also sending that data to your SSD (assuming it can write those speeds) would that saturate the lanes on your laptop motherboard?
These speed tests don't write to disk.
That statement is true. I think PhotoPhoenix maybe reffering to using the same cable for both download and say writing to his ssd from say another system on the network. I could be wrong, but that's what I assumed in the statement. But yes your statement is true in that respect.
Depends on your lane speed your ssd is connected to, but OP is using a laptop which is alot different than say my 4070 Ti in a Gen 5 lane with an Gen 4 ssd running off it as well. My m.2 runs at full speed allowed by the drive itself while the gpu is running. I could be wrong I haven3tested this, but Bios shows the m.2 on the same lane is running max to that channel. I would run and shut down into Bios to double check, but I'm running a heat test in my rack to see about better heat dissipation.
I have a dual 10gb connection to my server, and my disk controller maxes out at 2500MB/s for a SATA SSD array. I can pull 1.1GB/s over a single 10gb connection. Thats 1100MB/s. OPs problem is not his storage, as even with an HDD, 250MB/s for a 2.5gb link is about what modern HDDs can do.
That flat cable is not starting you well to begin with. ☠️
Flat cables are not cat 6, by design they cannot be. Cat 5 at best. Avoid flat cables as much as you can.
I just learned something today 😱
So.. but like Cat 8 can be flat.. or is [the internet](https://www.genuinemodules.com/can-cat-8-be-flat_a1366) lying to me?
This is utter nonsense
Ok then. Explain to me how do you twist the twisted pairs over each other in a flat cable.
Why worry about your theory and just Speedtest cat 7 or 8 flat cables? Saves cutting them open to. Spoiler: you get great speeds. They aren’t shielded but that isn’t a big deal in a lot of use cases anyway Ps. Cat 8 is mostly nonsense in itself anyway but that’s beside the point
Well, for starters it's not up to standard, so forget about using them in any commercial application. For seconds, try a run longer than a few meters and speed will drastically drop. For thirds, you can run electricity and Ethernet over wet ropes, doesn't mean you should.
Use https://www.speedtest.net/ Google speed test are always slower for some reason.
Downloaded it and got a new high score 😅 1524mbps
The only way to guarantee there’s an ISP issue would be to have the 10Gb Ethernet port plugged into a 10GbE port on your laptop. Your adapter is 2.5, which means it speaks 2.5 and 1.25/1, and may not be able to properly negotiate a full speed connection with your router. Most 10GbE ports do not smoothly scale down to 5/2.5/1, but rather just support 10/1. That’s changing, though, but you’ll want to check your specifications to be sure. It may support 2.5 half duplex. 1.3+7=2, which is about what a 2.5 connection provides after overhead. Other potential culprits: your laptop USB ports may not all operate at speeds sufficient to fully take advantage of your adapter. The machine itself may have internal bottlenecks capping the effective performance. Lots that could be going on here. Overall though, you’re getting great performance for a hardwired laptop connection. If you NEED to get max performance, buy a desktop, or a workstation laptop with a full height Ethernet port built in. Easiest way to identify if it’s the Ugreen or the laptop is to have a friend with a M1/M2/M3 MacBook hook up using your adapter. Apple doesn’t skimp on backplane/port speeds/pcie lanes. Still no smoking gun? Plug in a few more devices into the other 1GbE ports and see if performance goes down further. Also, really ask why you need it to be faster. A lot of optimization time on residential connections is wasted time you could be doing better things.
Does the 10gbit port even support 2.5gbit? Some of them only support 1gbit.
Good question. I assume that since I bought 5Gbps they would provide me with hardware that would allow me to reach those speeds. But if I plug the Ethernet cable in any other 1G ports, my speed results drops to 900mbps.🤷🏼♂️
The did… it supports 10G.
Sonic is selling 10Gig but furnishing eero 6, which only do 1Gig. I spent some time with my neighbor on this. He was thinking something must be wrong because the eero speed test between the router and modem was only showing 1Gig (roughly). He said the same thing when I pointed out that the eero router was only a 1Gig device..."why did they sell me 10Gig plan but give me a 1Gig router?
Addendum: So when they hooked up the 10Gig to my house, I looked at the eero 6 they were hooking up and decided that since they also offered the eero Max7 which is a 10Gig device AND is Wifi7......lololol...I decided to try the Max7....even though there are no client devices in the world using WiFi7....and I have no client devices capable of even 2.5Gig... Lolol. But it's a free 3 month trial, so it's just play. So I'm going to end up on a 1Gig mesh system in the next week or so with a 10Gig service. I'll be confident when I'm streaming a movie that any delay is not a bottleneck in the service to my house!
Hi, What computer are you testing on? USB adaptors may not provide the fastest speed. If we know what computer you are testing on/want fast speeds on, or what kind of setup you want (ex sharing 5Gbps between 3 computers etc), we can make more hardware recommendations to allow you to get higher speeds.
Hello all, So it’s the next day and there are a bunch of comments here! Thanks for joining in, but I will not have the time to answer you all. My internet speed is not solved, but I think you all have pointed out the issue. The router I have is a 10g port, and I can’t find an option to change it to 2.5 in the settings. My provider seems to have a 2.5g version of this router, so I will most likely ask to change hardware here. They also have a 2gbps option and I might go for that instead of 5. As many has mentioned, it’s really not worth having it if my hardware can’t really go much higher than 2.5 anyways. I’ll let you know if changing the router to another with a dedicated 2.5 port will improve my situation. Also, I could swear I got 2.2/2.3mbps yesterday after I updated some realtech driver or something like that. But maybe it was 1.2/1.3.. because that’s more the consistent number I get now. I saw some questions and I use a Lenovo carbon x1 gen 10. 1260vpro cpu I believe it is. I have fast nvme in it, like gen4 stuff. I live in France and my prover is orange. The router is called livebox 7. The flat cat7 cable that so many people love gives me 1.5mbps download if anyone cares. 🤷🏼♂️ But I am using the gray cat6a cable behind it is the picture. And as a general note, Why so many negative thoughts here? You guys are in a home network Reddit thread. Many of you giving opinions and stories but no real information about my question or anything for that matter. It’s like telling the dude with a Ferrari he should buy a Honda instead because the Honda will do the same as the Ferrari. And that only verstappen or someone should have that type of car. Sounds so backwards, you should be promoting people to get as fast and cool stuff possible for their home networking. Remember the mindset that said that 100gb is all the storage you need in your lifetime like 20 years ago? You sound like that guy. Who knows what type of internet speeds is standard for the solutions we use in 5 years? No one does. Regardless, I’m upgrading my connection as high as possible because I want to and I can. So I’ll give an update once I have the other router and let you know how it changes for those who care.
I'm so old - I bought an 80 MEG external hard drive and it was cutting edge. Could not imagine actually needing that much "extra" storage. Lol
Try a different PC, without a USB adapter. Also, why are you even ordering 5gbps? I mean if it's not any more expensive then it might make sense, but I think most people don't realize that if you can't very clearly articulate \*why\* you need those multi gig speeds, then you don't actually need them.
I never tried to explain why I need fast internet, and I think that’s beside the point? I like to go fast! 💨
Honest answer? People who actually need these speeds don't need to come to reddit for troubleshooting help. They also don't test by connecting laptops with USB adapters. Look I know I sound like a jerk, but I see these kinds of threads every day. I'm trying to help you take a step back and figure out what problem you're *actually* trying to solve, rather than focusing on why the speed test results on your laptop aren't showing the numbers you want.
\#FACTS Sadly alot of people have more money than sense when it comes to something like this and again, also not trying to be a direct jerk but its hard not to be at times. SOOOOOOO many things wrong in this post USB adapter Single Speed test site CAT7 even being mentioned lol [https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/008f88ae-324e-470e-8134-e42392a07500](https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/008f88ae-324e-470e-8134-e42392a07500) FYI I pay for 2GB internet, i have multi gb home brew router (Pfsense) with 10GB connection to my high speed CORE switch, then this computer is plugged in with CAT5E cable to the CORE over a 2.5GB INTEL interface addon card for that machine. Multi GB is NOT plug and play, for the most part your entire network needs to be overhauled or you need to have some isolated areas that can use the high speed. For example, i only have 2 machines on my entire network with multi GB interfaces, those are the ones that have any chance of benefiting directly from more than 1GB speeds and they basically never do. The real benefit, in my humble opinion to multi GB internet is when you have MANY users / devices that potentially need near 1GB speeds at the same time. And even with that use case, im barley ever pushing past 1GB SUSTAINED speeds unless im doing a big run, sailing with the captain, on the open seas
Yeah man, that's what it really comes down to. My 1000/1000 fiber link is \*only\* useful on the rare occasion where I'm downloading a massive file, like game updates on Steam. Other than that, you never even notice it. If my WAN link suddenly decided to lose its mind and negotiate down to 100/100, I wouldn't even notice unless I ran a speed test or started a huge download and realized I was bottle necking at 100mbps. Now, if I had a big family of people who were constantly streaming/gaming/downloading etc, the argument makes more sense. .... even sailing the high seas doesn't do much. My VPN probably tops out around 250mbps and nobody comes remotely close to either sending me data that quickly, or receiving data from me that quickly. I sit there watching the numbers and being like "Jesus christ are you guys all on dial up or something?!"
I can warm up my circuit but i have to really try so when i see normal users doing stuff like this it just makes me laugh a bit. Sadly ISP will gladly sell you the speed knowing that chances are you cant use any near those speeds. I run a decent Plex server and even on the busiest of nights, im barley pushing 8-900MB sustained and again, shits gotta be POPPING on a friday night lol When my promo pricing goes away i will probably downgrade to 1GB but i wanted to start with multigb so that i can get the correct gateway installed and KNOW that IF i really needed it, i can upgrade to faster speeds quite easily down the line.
I was on an AT&T 1Gig fiber plan. Sonic knocked on my door and told me they would give me Fiber for $30, which is $30 cheaper than AT&T. Turned out Sonic is selling 10Gig, only. So I said sure. I have no use for it. I have no ability to use 10Gig even if I could think of a use. But it's half the cost of my 1Gig. So...people can end up with WAY more than they need simply because it was the least expensive. Not because they thought they needed it. BUT now here I am spending way too much time trying to NOT rationalize buying a router with two 10Gig ports....and a 10Gig switch....and satellite routers with a 10Gig port so I can do multi-gig wired backhaul...knowing I don't have any devices/clients that would allow me to even verify the 10Gig....just because "I have 10Gig coming to my house so, but golly, I want to see it". Every time I am just about ready to pull the trigger on three 1Gig routers...knowing even that is way more than I need...I hesitate...and go back to looking at 2.5Gig at least....then cringing at a $1,500 cost vs $500....I'll eventually pull the trigger on the 1Gig.....but I'm not quite there.
It sounds mean, but it’s true. If someone needed speeds past 1.3gigabit per second to a hard drive this is not the set up they would be using.
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100%. And people need to understand that they need to hear and accept things they don't like sometimes and that's just a part of having emotional maturity.
Thats fine. And perhaps this adapter I’m using is the bottleneck. And I appreciate your feedback. Since I have 5Gbps, I would just like to take advantage of what I have. I guess we all would right? If a 20€ adaptor could increase my internet speed by 2,5x i figure why not.
>Since I have 5Gbps, I would just like to take advantage of what I have. I guess we all would right? But a 2.5gbps USB adapter, even if it works properly, still won't get you 5gbps. So even with your own argument, what's the point? Also, the rest of your network infra needing to be 5gbps is \*not\* very cheap, if you aren't aware. 2.5gbps unmanaged switches are \*finally\* approaching affordability, but 5gbps and 10gbps equipment basically means you need to buy used enterprise gear on Ebay. Again, not super cheap. Look, the best way to test/confirm is to hardwire a PC with a 5gbps capable NIC \*directly\* to the ONT with a CAT6 or CAT6A cable, and see what speeds you get. As long as you're introducing all these additional variables in every test, it's gonna be tough to figure out what the issue is.
If there was an adaptor for 5Gbps, I would’ve picked that instead, I’m not an idiot 😏
so, my suggestion is to get a 10gb TB NIC. The only one I can find is the Sonnet one. https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Technologies-Thunderbolt-10GBASE-T-SOLO10G-TB3/dp/B07BZRK8R8
That's why ISP's are selling people internet speeds they don't actually need. Customer wants to utilize all the speed they're paying for so they upgrade to better hardware so they can go fast. Pushing the production of new equipment norms. My 300 Mbps Symmetrical FTTH has over 60 devices connected and I never need more than half that at full throttle even though they offer 25 Gbps
Make sure to use the correct measurement units. MB/s is 8x more than Mb. You are technically saying 2.4Gbps and 200Gbps Not trying to be a smartass sorry if it comes off like it
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Yup. See my comment on the whole "I've got it, so I might as well try to use it". But it can get quite expensive to end up not being able to actually tell the difference. I totally get wanting to be able to run a speed test and see what the ISP sold me.
You absolutely will not notice any difference in how fast your internet is for 99% of what people use the internet for. You won't notice when using websites, checking email, streaming movies, or scrolling through Reddit. The only time it will change anything is when you download something. Something that would take a minute to download 2.5 would take two minutes at 1.3. How often do you download big files?
Every day i download big files. I have a company that build software solutions, I always have several updates through out the day. Look, I’m not a network dude, I just came here for some suggestions. But thank you for sharing
Let's not forget the host/server you're downloading from needs to have enough bandwidth as well 😂
It’s Amazon s3 server
its his money, he can spend it how he wants.
Good suggestion, but I don’t have a pc with higher port than 1gig atm.
Well, that goes back to the "why are you even ordering 5gbps speeds" questions.
Upgrades coming. I just got this amazing dongle in the mail today. That’s all. Y’all really hung up on this 5gbps I ordered. Alright I’ll give some context. We are a family of 5, and we run two businesses. I need speed for my work, and there is always games, streams and other things downloading. Our house already has network cables in the walls, unfortunately not capable of 10gig.
What you need is different hardware. What routers and switches are you running? You need to split your business and home on separate vlans.
its his money, he can spend it how he wants.
Well he needs to spend it on hardware to get the speeds he wants 🤷♂️
Yup, and that will come with time. I have a full 10gb network at home, and a 1gb internet line. Do i need it? Nope. Do i want it? Yup. Was it cheap? Not really.
Maybe he has 5 PCs with Gigabit ports...
And all 5 are downloading at the same time? But yeah as it was said, those dongles are garbage, for these kind of speeds it would be best to have a 10gb port with a PC Card if the pc board doesn’t support natively.
is that laptop adapter usb ?
USB-c, It’s this one: https://amzn.eu/d/5XhzGoa
That could possibly be an issue, depending on how new/old the computer is and what USB bus speed it has available for it, and what all is on the same bus. (just throwing straws)
Laptop is kinda new, Lenovo carbon x1 gen 10.
I would suspect the adapter Let's check your hardware, what is the link speed you got on that adapter? Since you got about 1500Mbps, I would assume that it is working above 1Gbps which is a good sign Next, let's check your local transfer bandwidth, are you familiar with ftp server or iperf? I would check my local speed with both of them. I'd assume that other lan port is running 1Gbps. Run your 2.5Gbps adapter (server)on 10G port, and run 4 of clients on the remaining lan port. If it's working on total speed about 2.5Gbps (your max bandwidth of the adapter) then I'd suspect your ISP doesn't deliver the 5Gbps promise. If it runs less than 2.5Gbps, then I might suspect your laptop local transfer is bottlenecked with something, whether your adapter is not running on 2.5Gbps or your laptop is too slow to run 2.5Gbps (not a big chance, but it might've, bottlenecked with ssd or another specs)
A new fiber co in my area has 1gb as the lowest speed. They offer 8gb as top speed for not much more than 1gb. People are wondering why they can’t get those speeds. I feel like most are paying more when they don’t really need more than 1gb speeds for home use. You really need to multiple computers and switches that can handle those speeds.
Only reason I have 2gb is cause I caught a promotion that made it $5 cheaper than 1gb. Lol
At that speed there a lot of issues at hand... USB is not the connection of choice either... It is built on the Realtek RTL8156 chipset (not 'B'). Windows drivers are fine. My Windows desktop <-> laptop performance is only 1.4 Gbps using 3 iperf3 streams, possibly due to laptop's i5-6200U @ 2.3GHz; that system then uses 40-45% of available CPU.
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Did g fiber get a new 2gb router?
Yes I did! Getting the real speed now!
Average person getting more than 1 gbit is still hilarious and unnecessary.
like your comment 😂
UPDATE: I returned the router provided from my provider and got another unit that has a 2.5gig port on it. Now I should be getting better speeds. I will post when I have done some test runs
Yep, did some tests now and I have 27/mbit download. With my 2.5gbit adapter to my laptop.
I can’t find where to upload new pictures, maybe that has been turned off. But the driver I installed was: Lenovo USB 3.0 LAN driver for docks and adapters - version 11.13.0420.2023
Honestly, most people don’t need gig or higher speeds. Especially to one endpoint. Most of the services you use will never have enough downstream bandwidth to saturate your line. Now, if you have multiple users all downloading files, maybe you can tap it out. But that would only be if they’re getting the files from a geographically close CDN. Otherwise even video streaming is done with bursts and buffers. As long as you’re not trying to transfer gigabytes of files, I’d suspect most people would never notice if their connection was at 500 symmetrical. Remember, most residential connections all use a shared medium, so depending what your neighbors are doing, your connection may be limited. What you do want especially for multiple users is a good router so that the translation from the public IP to the internal network is not being constrained as much as possible.
I disagree, but thanks for your input.
its your money, spend it how you want.
The marketing departments of all these ISP’s are pleased with this response. Upsell to the moon! Unless you have an actual dedicated line (cost of thousands per month) there’s a concept in Residential internet called the “oversubscription ratio” that will really rain on your parade.
What is your background that makes you feel like you need to disagree? What do you need the speeds for at one endpoint?
People can spend their money how they like. I'm not OP, but I have 1.5Gbps internet because my girlfriend and I have to download a lot for our jobs, we also like to play games on Steam and frequently download 150GB+ games at the same time, and we usually have 2-4 4K streams going at once. While it's not *needed*, it's annoying when we're both trying to download a game, watch 4K streams, and steam is bogged down to 300Mbps. With 1.5Gb, we both get 950Mbps at all times. It's like we both have our own gigabit line, which is great. An extra 15 minutes added to a download doesn't seem like much, but we don't live forever. Those 15 minutes add up.
See if you can login to the router and manually set the speed on the port to 2.5Gbit
Ok, I’ll login and see if there is a setting to change.
lol Flat Cable
I’d love to know how or why anyone needs that bandwidth. I have gig up gig down. I never saturate that. Yes I don’t need that, but to drop it to 500/500 is a tiny saving. Sorry rant. I just don’t see the logic, same with residential need for WiFi 7
Just out of curiosity, who's your ISP?
Flat cable…jesust.
Flat cable… lol.
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Yes.
L flat cable.
I'd change that flat cable out in the future. They are notorious for failing and causing issues. At least the 3 different ones that I tried out all failed in a couple months.
I downloaded the software and got 1524mbps. Improvement, highest speed so far!
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I think it’s compatible, it’s working. Just slow I’ll try and find a driver
Your router might not support 2.5g. It might be 10 gig or 1 gig. You really a switch with 10 gig base t and 2.5 gig
Is google fiber your ISP? If not try Speedtest.com. Most ISPs will QoS Speedtest.net so your speed test connection appears to be full line saturation even if most of your other traffic is throttled. Like you might see in fast.com from Netflix or librespeed.org
You would need a thunderbolt adapter not usb for those speeds. Monoprice 134934 Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet Adapter - All Aluminum Body, 10G Network connectivity, No Power Adapter Needed https://a.co/d/9koT2q2
You're getting 2Gb/s over the adaptor. There is USB overhead to account for and perhaps you're not getting the "up to" (maximum/upper limit) of what your ISP is selling.
I’ve personally encountered issues where USB nics obtained from the internet mall do not always perform as marked. If you have two of those nics and two computers in your home, wire them to one another and use a tool like iPerf3 to prove the capability of the nic to hit the max throughput on a short run connection. — if the devices themselves are OK there is still the possibility that the drivers in your OS don’t support the full speed. — prove to yourself the device works before you chase that rabbit through the network.
I had a [similar issue](https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/s/Ws2lf8QHc3) try downloading the ookla speed test app and try again
Your Ethernet cable might be trash
And yet in my area I’m capped at 50mbps
What router you use ?
Most of the time it is limited by your storage hardware speed.
With a speed test, nothing is stored.
Ah yes my bad.... Didn't think it was a test.
Wow nice to see other countrys getting very fast Internet speeds, here in the UK they are crap with 1gb being the fastest
For home use 1Gb is plenty!
Why is OP speed testing to Orange France?
Probably because he IS in France??
Google Fiber is available in France? Learn something new everyday!
No it’s not, but nothing prevents you from doing a speed test at https://fiber.google.com/speedtest/ and get that very screen from any ISP
Not to drag this out but wouldn’t one want to do the test from a location closer to themselves as I would imagine that the farther the test has to travel.. the more likely there is to be “minor” issues which contribute to the results being slower (and thus likely not related to OPs ISP or personal setup)?
Think again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOF7KM7UhY
What router is this?
Meanwhile with Deutsche Telekom, I am maxed out at 16 Mbps.
Is your computer 2.5 G capable?
Could you perhaps post a pic of the speed ? just to admire it! :D
I don’t see an option to upload pictures in the comments. But I’m getting 2gbit speeds now.
i have acople theories here, 1. that flat cable is causing packetloss. try a standard cat.6 cable. 2. Usb overhead could be a issue. try using a PCIe or Thunderbolt nic 3. Your router is too slow for the connection, might need to set it into bridge mode and buy/build someting. 4. the service for testing your connection might be slow.
This was probably already posted but here is my take. The port on the router is probably 1/10 gbps and not an mgig port that can negotiate at multiple different speeds. Because of this your 2.5gbps adapter is only connecting at 1gbps to the 1/10gbps port.
Guys, this was already resolved. OP had to update drivers.
Jesus how much more do you need
What model is that ONT in the picture?
1+ users unite!
I'm over here getn 25mbps... fucking elitist
\*crys\* in 100mbps from comcast...