Gigabit on Ubuntu, only 100mb/s on Windows 8.1??

Joan Vilarino

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Hi everyone.

I own a computer with an Asus M4A78LT-M LE motherboard, that comes with a Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet card.

Today I changed my 100mb fiber connection for a FFTH 200mb simmetric connection.

The thing is that while I'm getting 200mb download on Ubuntu, it won't go faster than 100mb on Windows 8.1 ... the test websites I've tried seem to freeze when downloading and don't got further that 100mb ...

Anyone can give me a hint on what can be failing? I've downloaded the latest drivers and that didn't fix it...

Here is the info I get from my network card on windows:

Sufijo DNS específico para la conexión: Home
Descripción: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30)
Dirección física: ‎XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Habilitado para DHCP: Sí
Dirección IPv4: 192.168.1.129
Máscara de subred IPv4: 255.255.255.0
Concesión obtenida: lunes, 14 de julio de 2014 18:59:07
La concesión expira: jueves, 17 de julio de 2014 18:59:07
Puerta de enlace predeterminada IPv4: 192.168.1.1
Servidor DHCP IPv4: 192.168.1.1
Servidores DNS IPv4: 87.216.1.65, 87.216.1.66
Servidor WINS IPv4:
Habilitado para NetBios a través de Tcpip: Sí
Vínculo: dirección IPv6 local: fe80::e447:3ca1:7352:21d9%3
Puerta de enlace predeterminada IPv6:
Servidor DNS IPv6:

 

Joan Vilarino

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Jul 14, 2014
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I've been doing some more tests and I've found that it has to do with flash websites... as mainly all the speed test sites are flash made, it seems my old dual core is choking with flash... strange because this doesn't happen on Ubuntu.

When I download a file from MEGA, for example it rockets to 19MB/s (that's near the 200mb/s) and using JDownloader with paid account, I got 23MB/s from Alldebrid > Uploaded ... so it seems to be working...