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If I changed my MAC address, does it effect my ethernet to internet in anyway?

I'm on a public network and I can connect to WiFi for free but to use internet I need to put username and password. And when my card ended I usually see who's the network with me like I'm doing right ...
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How can I make rsync work on a bad internet connection?

I'm in a country with a really bad internet connection. I try to delete files on my laptop that have already been transferred to a server with the following command line: rsync -aic --existing --...
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How ISP limits the speeds? [closed]

Technically I can enjoy the maximum internet data speed, but ISP will only allowed the set limit, how does ISP does that? And how does it do it for both uplink and downlink? Does it set max limit to ...
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My download speed is stuck at 10MB

I have 70MB connection and when I check on fast.com, it shows 65-70MB. But when I download any files, it is limited to 10-11MB/s. It is like it can go up but some component is limiting it. How can I ...
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Google Drive, Amazon AWS and other CDN very slow with dnscrypt-proxy

On a pair of setup, I tested dnscrypt-proxy succesfully. The only problem that I've seen until now is the following: Given that dnscrypt-proxy forwards the DNS requests to a server that is in a remote ...
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How to split or even increase speed downloading for devices?

I have in my network: A PC with 1GBps connection, A laptop for BitTorrnet downloads and media mirror casting using 5ghz, A Home Lab Server with 1GBps connection, 3 phones work in 2.4 Ghz, A tablet ...
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Wifi connection is really slow after a while, but disconnecting and connecting again speeds it up

After I connect to my home wifi network, I get very high speeds, but after a couple of seconds I get a slow internet again. It is happening to both my Android phone and my Linux PC, but my phone gets ...
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Windows 10 PC not getting full internet speed

My internet speed just got updated from 600Mbps to 800Mbps. I bought a new modem to handle faster speeds, but I am still averaging between 400 and 600Mbps. The cable guy came and checked the speed ...
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Internet speed through hotspot mobile is slow suddenly

I have been using Netgear AC797S for two years now and it's been fantastic. However, I use a lot of times without battery by plugging it to my laptop. I have an active 4G plan and it's very quick on ...
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USB Ethernet Adapter in USB 2.0 Port [duplicate]

I recently upgraded my internet plan with my ISP and I got a 300Mb/s fiber connection. What I noticed is that my laptop only supports up to 100Mb/s ethernet speeds, so I want to get a USB ethernet ...
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QOS bandwidth error in LB-Link Router

I'm trying to limit my phone bandwidth in LB-Link Router to (24mb/s upload, 49mb/s download) LB-Link uses kb/s, according to Google, (49mb/s = 392000 kb/s), but I get the following error "The ...
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download speed always drops on ethernet but upload speed never does

I have 3 Gbps fibre internet connected to my machine, through ethernet, and I never seem to get the full download speed no matter what, however the upload speed is always at maximum, which is weird. ...
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Debugging internet connectivity delay issue

Problem For quite some time now, I am experiencing hiccups in my network connection, although the speeds are on par with what ISP offers (tested with https://speed.cloudflare.com/). Specifically, when ...
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Is it a sign of a bandwidth issue when network "link speed" in Speccy is mostly under 20Kbps and then every 10 seconds or so jumps to over 800 Kbps [closed]

The company relocated to new offices this past week and my Windows 10 PC is now back online. When I open up Speccy and look at network "link speed" it is mostly reading between 2 and 20 ...
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Slow internet slows my computer?

For some reason, when I connect to my school internet my computer's speed slows drastically for certain things, such as opening applications, loading websites and even things like clicking buttons ...
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My download speed is terrible

When I try downloading a game my download speed is 1 mb/s. When I restart my router or pc the speed jumps to 5 mb/s but quickly get back down. When in task manager it shows the game is using 10 mb/s ,...
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I have a 500MB Frontier and I tried connecting a GIGA router to Giga switch but the speed test only shows 100MB speed [closed]

I have a 500MB Frontier and I tried connecting a Gigabit router to Gigabit switch but the speed test only shows 100MB speed.
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Same WiFi adapter slow on desktop but fast on laptop

Quick disclaimer before anyone asks: I used the exact same physical adapter on both my relatively high-end desktop PC and a laptop. All of the WiFi tests where done at the same location (so nothing ...
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Secondary router only gets half speed

I have a Netgear R6400v2 as my main primary router connected to a fiber connection. To that router I have another Netgear R6400 connected with cat 4 or 5 lan cable as a secondary router set as an ...
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Internet speed tests show fast download speeds, but "real-world" download speeds are significantly slower

Before we begin, I would like to clarify that I am aware that internet speed is measured in Mb/s (megabits per second) while most applications show download speeds in MB/s (megabytes per second), and ...
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Why is Wi-Fi connection speed slower than LAN?

modem settingOn my laptop, the Wi-Fi connection speed is so much slower than the LAN connection. I have reset my router, I have even reinstalled the drivers and Windows, but the problem is still ...
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Phone Wifi Speed Test Slower Than Laptop

Why is it that my phone gives a download speed of 100 mbps but my computer gives 330 mbps for the same wifi network? Phone is on airplane mode so just wifi.
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Fast.com Settings

Does anyone know how Fast.com picks the settings they use to measure for upload and download speed? For example, my latest test picked 330MB for download and 30 MB for upload. Clicking into the ...
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Cable modem + 300 ft of Coax?

I'm trying to get cable internet to a house in the woods. However, my ISP's connection is about 300 ft away. I want to run a coaxial cable from there to the house, but due to budget constraints, I can'...
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Why is my download speed 10X slower than my upload?

Screenshot of speedtest: I am confused at what is wrong. I have AT&T Fiber 300 Mbps internet but only was getting about 30 Mbps upload and download over Wifi. Then I went out and bought a 100 ft ...
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Google Chrome in Windows 10 reports network speed eight times lower than other browsers

Is there anything that could explain this: Here we have: The same hardware (Intel NUC 7i5BNH) The same network (network cable and router) and the same ISP The same operating system (Windows 10 Pro ...
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I have fast internet, but sometimes it hangs and websites load very slowly

I'm facing a problem, in so far as my internet speed is good, but a lot of times websites take 5-7 seconds to load, or I have to keep clicking the reload button. I don't think it's right. My speed is ...
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Internet speeds 300+ Mbps after bootup. Then next speed test is about half the speed

I have a Windows 10 machine that with the latest updates installed. I noticed that after a reboot I can run an internet speed test using Ookla or any other online speed test and get about 300+ Mbps. ...
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pfsense - slow connection to internet from wired network but not from wireless/wifi

summary: internet speed tests indicate that the connection to the internet from my wired network is very slow, while speed tests from a device on my wifi network gets the expected (much faster) result....
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D-Link DGS-1005A: What does an orange light mean and why is it only orange for one port?

I use a D-Link DGS-1005A unmanaged switch that sits between my main router and my personal machine. There are also 2 other machines that connect to this switch. My machine is on the 1st port and the ...
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TP-Link TG-3468 ethernet adapter limits my connection speed to 100Mbps

I have 200Mbps speed connection, but the motherboard ethernet port doesn't allow more than 100Mbps. I bought the TP-Link TG-3468 ethernet adapter, but it still limiting my connection. In network ...
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One computer's download speeds are slow, but speedtest remains fast. The other computer, on the other hand, is always fast

One of my older computers has been suffering from a weird problem where when I download something, regardless of where I download from, speeds are really slow. I have a 1000 Mb fiber line and one ...
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Why two similar PCs have different internet speed

I have two servers on my home network lab and both have wired connection. Here is the network spec: DC1: Windows Server 2019/Primary DC/Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller DC2: Windows Server 2022/...
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OpenVPN Slows Speeds when underlying raw speed increases

We are running OpenVPN on a router to an AWS cloud server to create a tunnel. AWS has over 1Gbps bandwidth up and down. We are using OpenVPN with no encryption (cipher-none) directly from the router. ...
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How does the Windows Task Manager compute the link speed for each network adapter?

The Windows Task Manager shows the link speed for each network adapter? Sometimes the link speed oscillates (between 130 and 144 Mbps in the example below, where the network adapter is a USB WiFi ...
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Wifi speeds gloriously inconsistent day to day, but very consistent hour to hour?

After several months of every experiment I can think to run, and just getting noisy data left and right, I'm out of ideas and cannot make this network's behavior fit within my grasp of physics. Some ...
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Actual download speed different from online speed test due to bad wiring [duplicate]

My internet company provides me with 10 MB/s download speed, but sometimes my faulty ethernet connector caps it at 1.1 MB/s. When I reconnect the rj45 connector (sometimes it takes a few tries) the ...
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Why is my windows 10 machine's internet getting 30mb via wifi on a 650 mb connection?

I have a 650mb/s connection from virgin media, which is mostly working fine, I get anywhere up to 600-650mb/s on every device I I own (samsing s20, iphone 11, 2 macbook pros) except for my Windows 10 ...
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Realtek rtl8188fu Wifi adapters are too slow

I have an rtl8188fu wifi adapter and I have installed driver for it from https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu . My problem is that the network speed is too slow. I have tried the wifi adapter on ...
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Why should one expect a ~30% drop in speed when using OpenVPN UDP with NordVPN? [closed]

https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/1047408902/Speed-and-bandwidth.htm (mirror) mentions: If you are connected to the closest available server through OpenVPN UDP, you can expect around a 30% ...
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Windows PC does not have full download speed

I have a Windows computer on my network that is not downloading with max speed ( 1GBit/s / 125MByte/s ). On every test I run (several online tools, downloading games, etc.), the maximum reached is ...
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We got 200mbps Fios internet, but speeds are half that

Since we got Verizon Fios internet, the speeds that they state on their website are wrong, because we payed for 200mbps but only getting 100mbps. Speedtest gives this result on every device that I use,...
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Slow performance but fast WI-FI speeds

I’ve got a pretty quick connection (a speed test just showed about 140MBPs download and 40 upload, which is typical across my devices and around my house), though my wife and I frequently get poor ...
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Desktop computer connected to Gigabit Ethernet does not speedtest to full Internet speed

My main home computer is a recent Win10 desktop with a Gigabyte B450M motherboard (Ryzen 3600, 32GB ram). The motherboard has a Gigabit Ethernet port connected to a regular Gigabit switch, then to a ...
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Why are internet speeds variable and not fixed numbers?

Assume you have 10mbps speed. So why when you download something from the internet, your speed is not going to be fixed at 10mbps, but instead it varies from 2-9mbps while you're downloading? Why do ...
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Does download speed actually decrease when you download from a far away server, or just delayed?

On speedtest.net, if I test my download speed to my ISP server, I would get my full download speed which is normal. When I test my internet speed to servers that are 1000-2000km away, I would get only ...
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My Wifi is nearly half the speed of my ethernet

I just got a new plan with 30Mbps download and 5Mbps Upload. I get just that on Ethernet connection to my Desktop, however, my Laptop or mobile phone get only 13-20mpbs even when staying next to the ...
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Reduced Internet Speed via pfsense-vm

I recently setup pfSense kvm and have a 4 port NIC attached. The WAN port is connected to my ISP router and hooked my PC to LAN for testing. Now, the problem is -- While I do iperf to public servers ...
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Nokia router G-2425G-A maximum theoretical and practical speed over 5Ghz wifi

I have an internet connection (ISP Airtel) that promises a bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Over ethernet, I see a bandwidth of around 900 Mbps, however, over wifi 5Ghz, the maximum speed I receive is 450-470 ...
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Windows 10 Pro getting half the original internet speed

My PC suddenly started only getting at maximum 300Mbps (mostly 270Mbps), while every other computer on the network gets 500Mbps. The same cable on the same switch on another computer gets the 500Mbps, ...
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